Ensio Uoti

Ensio Ilmari Uoti (5 September 1897 Pori – 1966 Aachen^[1]) was a Finnish politician and Nazi who in the 1930s was the leader of the Finnish-Socialist Workers' Party (SSTP).

Life

Ensio Uoti's parents were pastor Juho Henrik Uoti, a known anarchist, and Augusta Matilda Laurila (1863–1936), a primary school teacher. Uoti took part in many battles in the Finnish civil war and joined the German army in 1918.^[2] 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 Gottfried Feder, 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.^[3]

In the 1930s, Uoti was active in multiple Finnish Nazi parties, the National Socialist Union of Finland, the Patriotic People's Movement and the Finnish People's Organisation. After this, Uoti co-founded the Finnish-Socialist Workers' Party in November 1934.^[4]

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 Helsinki, attracting attention thanks to the large swastika banners.^[4] 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.^[5]

In the autumn of 1939, Uoti was sent to Berlin on a diplomatic mission. According to his own account, Uoti got to meet Heinrich Himmler, 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. After the Winter War, Uoti was sentenced to six months in prison for official misconduct, and was on Valpo's watchlist as a suspected spy.^[6]^[7]^[8]

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

^ "Kuolleita". Helsingin Sanomat. 1966-06-24. p. 6.
^ Kansallis-sosialisti 30.06.1933 Vaalinumero
^ Tommi Kotonen: Politiikan juoksuhaudat – Äärioikeistoliikkeet Suomessa kylmän sodan aikana, s. 76–77, 79–81. Atena, Jyväskylä 2018.
^ ^a ^b Ekberg 1991, s. 95–99.
^ Mikko Uola (1999). "Suomi sitoutuu hajottamaan...": Järjestöjen lakkauttaminen vuoden 1944 välirauhansopimuksen 21. artiklan perusteella. Suomen Historiallinen Seura. pp. 262–271. ISBN 951-710-119-8.
^ Roselius, Aapo – Silvennoinen, Oula – Tikka, Marko (2016). "Kerran Suomessa taistellaan – suomalainen fasismi ja sota". Suomalaiset fasistit – mustan sarastuksen airuet. WSOY. p. 345,346. ISBN 978-951-0-42327-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Teemu Planting: Ensio Uotin suomalaissosialismi. Plagiaatti Hitlerin Mein Kampfista - tiivistelmä, Helsingin yliopisto, valtiotieteellinen tiedekunta, Politiikan ja talouden tutkimuksen laitos 2013.
^ "DSpace". helda.helsinki.fi. Retrieved 2023-12-13.

[hs240666-1] "Kuolleita". Helsingin Sanomat. 1966-06-24. p. 6.

[2] Kansallis-sosialisti 30.06.1933 Vaalinumero

[kotonen-3] Tommi Kotonen: Politiikan juoksuhaudat – Äärioikeistoliikkeet Suomessa kylmän sodan aikana, s. 76–77, 79–81. Atena, Jyväskylä 2018.

[ekberg95-4] Ekberg 1991, s. 95–99.

[uola-5] Mikko Uola (1999). "Suomi sitoutuu hajottamaan...": Järjestöjen lakkauttaminen vuoden 1944 välirauhansopimuksen 21. artiklan perusteella. Suomen Historiallinen Seura. pp. 262–271. ISBN 951-710-119-8.

[fas-6] Roselius, Aapo – Silvennoinen, Oula – Tikka, Marko (2016). "Kerran Suomessa taistellaan – suomalainen fasismi ja sota". Suomalaiset fasistit – mustan sarastuksen airuet. WSOY. p. 345,346. ISBN 978-951-0-42327-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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

[8] "DSpace". helda.helsinki.fi. Retrieved 2023-12-13.

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Pre-1945 groups	Academic Karelia Society Blue Cross Blue-and-Blacks Finnish Realm Union Finnish-Socialist Workers' Party Finnish National Socialist Labor Organisation Front Soldier League Finnish People's Organisation Finnish Labor Front Labor Organisation of Brothers-in-Arms Lalli Alliance of Finland Lapua Movement Organisation of National Socialists National Socialists of Finland National Socialist Union of Finland National Trade Union Confederation of Finland NSDAP/AO Finnland Party of Finnish Labor Patriotic Citizens of Viitasaari Patriotic People's Movement Patriotic People's Party People's Community Society Rising Finland Stormers Vientirauha
Post-1945 groups	Atomwaffen Division Finland Blue-and-Black Movement Blue and White Front Finland – Fatherland Finns Party Finnish People First Finnish People's Blue-Whites For Independence Freedom Alliance Kohti Vapautta! National Democratic Party National Union Council Nordic Resistance Movement Patriotic People's Movement Patriotic Popular Front Power Belongs to the People Suomen Sisu Soldiers of Odin Turku Society for the Spiritual Sciences Truth Party (Finland)
Pre-1945 people	Reino Ala-Kulju Vilho Annala Torsten Aminoff Hjalmar von Bonsdorff Severin Dobrovolsky Kai Donner Johan Christian Fabritius Petter Forsström C. A. J. Gadolin Herman Gummerus Yrjö von Grönhagen Bertel Gripenberg Reidar Hedman Vilho Helanen Gunnar von Hertzen Carl-Gustaf Herlitz Kalevi Heikkinen Antti Isotalo Y. W. Jalander Karl Jansson Kustaa Jussila Kaarlo Kares Y. P. I. Kaila Hans Kalm Arvi Kalsta Rauno Kallia Toivo Karanko Edvard Karvonen Aarne Kauhanen Juho Kaveheimo Olavi Karpalo Yrjö Kivenoja Juhani Konkka Vihtori Kosola Jussi Leino Gunnar Lindqvist Arvi Malmivaara Jussi Muilu Iisakki Nikkola Vietti Nykänen Thorvald Oljemark Johannes Öhquist Unto Parvilahti Martti Pihkala Otto Piisinen Boris Popper Yrjö Raikas Niilo Rauvala Erkki Räikkönen Hilja Riipinen John Rosberg Yrjö Ruutu Yrjö Saarinen Antti Salamaa Bruno Salmiala Kaarlo Salovaara Jaakko Seise Elias Simojoki Teo Snellman Arne Somersalo Paavo Susitaival Paavo Talvela Eino Tuomivaara Örnulf Tigerstedt Jukka Tyrkkö Ensio Uoti Mauno Vannas Kurt Martti Wallenius Artturi Vuorimaa
Post-1945 people	James Hirvisaari Esa Henrik Holappa [fi] Juha Korhonen Juha Kärkkäinen Jouni Lanamäki Seppo Lehto Junes Lokka Olavi Mäenpää Pekka Siitoin Ano Turtiainen
Pre-1945 events	Assassination of Heikki Ritavuori Murder of Onni Happonen Murder of Erik Mättö [fi] Murder of Yrjö Holm [fi] Mäntsälä rebellion Peasant March Ståhlberg kidnapping Vaasa riot
Post-1945 events	Kursiivi printing house arson 1986 Oulu airplane hijacking attempt [fi] Jyväskylä library stabbing 2016 Helsinki Asema-aukio assault Assassination attempt of Pekka Kataja [fi] Kankaanpää terrorism arrests Lahti terrorism arrests [fi]
Other	21 Paths to the Kingdom of Darkness Ajan Suunta Finnish volunteers in the Waffen-SS Finnlands Lebensraum Kansallissosialisti Kustaa Vaasa Magneettimedia MV-media Siniristi Steelfest Pro-German resistance movement in Finland (Thoralf Kyrre, Lauri Törni, Arvid Ojasti, Claes Purjo)