Ensio Ilmari Uoti (5 September 1897 Pori – 1966 Aachen) was a Finnish politician and

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who in the 1930s was the leader of the

Finnish-Socialist Workers' Party The Finnish-Socialist Workers' Party (Finnish: , SSTP) was a Finnish Nazi party that operated from 1934 to 1944 and was led by engineer Ensio Uoti.Ekberg 1991, s. 95–99. The party program In its program, the party stated that its core goal wa ...

(SSTP).

Life

Ensio Uoti's parents were pastor Juho Henrik Uoti, a known anarchist, and Augusta Matilda Laurila (1863–1936), a primary school teacher. In 1919, he moved to Germany to study engineering, after which Uoti visited Finland only occasionally. Uoti graduated as Master of Science in 1924 from Aachen University of Technology metallurgy department and subsequently worked in the Finnish Army as an engineer officer. Uoti had met

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, a Nazi economic theorist in Germany who greatly influenced his thinking. According to Uoti, the role of the state in economic life should be strengthened to eliminate the influence of “foreigner groups” associated with capitalism, especially Jews.Tommi Kotonen: ''Politiikan juoksuhaudat – Äärioikeistoliikkeet Suomessa kylmän sodan aikana'', s. 76–77, 79–81. Atena, Jyväskylä 2018. In the 1930s, Uoti was active in multiple Finnish Nazi parties, the

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, the Patriotic People's Movement and the

Finnish People's Organisation The Finnish People's Organisation (Finnish: , SKJ) (Swedish: , FFO) was a bilingual Nazi party founded by Jaeger Captain Arvi Kalsta. Supporters of the movement were also called Kalstaites after the leader. The inaugural meeting of the organization ...

. After this, Uoti co-founded the

in November 1934.Ekberg 1991, s. 95–99. The SSTP participated in the 1936 parliamentary elections in the Uusimaa constituency with the slogan "better pay for work". Cars equipped with party election advertisements toured

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, attracting attention thanks to the large swastika banners.Ekberg 1991, s. 95–99. The SSTP was abolished after the Continuation War under Article 21 of the Ceasefire Agreement (which entered into force on 23 September 1944) on 12 October 1944. In the autumn of 1939, Uoti was sent to

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on a diplomatic mission. According to his own account, Uoti got to meet

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, who would have said that Germany would not allow the occupation of Finland and that in two years' time Germany and the Soviet Union would be at war. According to Uoti, Germany would have offered to send a relief mission of 100,000 men to Finland as early as January 1940 via Åland if the Finnish government were to become "German-friendly". During the trip, however, Uoti defended his dissertation on Finnish monetary and fiscal policy in Berlin, and after returning to Finland in February 1940, he reported on his trip to Foreign Minister

Väinö Tanner Väinö Alfred Tanner (; 12 March 1881 – 19 April 1966; surname until 1895 ''Thomasson'') was a leading figure in the Social Democratic Party of Finland, and a pioneer and leader of the cooperative movement in Finland. He was Prime Minister ...

.Teemu Planting
Ensio Uotin suomalaissosialismi. Plagiaatti Hitlerin Mein Kampfista - tiivistelmä
Helsingin yliopisto, valtiotieteellinen tiedekunta, Politiikan ja talouden tutkimuksen laitos 2013.

Works

*''Kansan työ''. Suomalaissosialistisia julkaisuja N:o 1. Suomalaissosialistinen työväen puolue, Helsinki 1935 *''Kansan valta''. Suomalaissosialistisia julkaisuja N:o 2. Suomalaissosialistinen työväen puolue, Helsinki 1935 *''Die Geld- und Finanzpolitik Finnlands nach Erlangung der Selbstständigkeit nebst einem Exkurs über die Wohnbautätigkeit in den Städten : ein Beitrag zur Kritik der liberalen Wirtschaftspolitik''; dissertation (Universität Berlin, Fakultät der Staatswissenschaftlichen). Rudolf Bau, Berlin 1940 *''Näin tahtoi valtiomies – Tämän saivat aikaan diletantit: suomalaisessa kansallissosialistisessa kentässä mukana olleen toimijan ”testamentti”''. Tekijä, Helsinki 1955

References

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