Ivar Gabriel Hörhammer (11 February 1884 – 3 February 1953) was a Finnish

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, journalist and politician. He was a member of the

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1909–1911 for the

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. After his political career Hörhammer was one of the leading art gallerists in Finland.

Life

Hörhammer was the son of Bavarian brewmaster Karl Ludwig Hörhammer (1835–1913) and Norwegian-Danish Josefine Charlotte von Wildenrath (b. 1843). As Hörhammer was born, the family moved to

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, Finland. Since the age of 16, he worked as an office clerk in Helsinki. Hörhammer joined the labour movement after the 1905 general strike. He worked at the Swedish-language newspapers '' Arbetaren'', ''

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'' and ''

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'' and published the monthly '' Folktribunen''. In 1910–1912, he was the editor of ''Arbetet''. In the 1909 parliamentary election, Hörhammer was elected to the Parliament of Finland. He was a member of the Finnish delegation in the

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1910 congress in

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. In 1915, Hörhammer was sentenced for six months of lèse-majesté for an article published in ''Arbetaren'' in November 1910. After his prison term, Hörhammer left politics and became an art dealer. In September 1918, he founded the Galerie Hörhammer which was active in Helsinki until 2016. During the 1920s, Hörhammer became one of the prominent art gallerists and patrons of Finland. Hörhammer was also a talented

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player. He was the chairman of Finnish Chess Federation and

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awarded arbiter.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hörhammer, Ivar 1884 births 1953 deaths Social Democratic Party of Finland politicians Members of the Parliament of Finland (1909–1910) Members of the Parliament of Finland (1910–1911) Finnish journalists Art dealers Finnish patrons of the arts Finnish chess players Swedish-speaking Finns