Aimo Cajander: Difference between revisions

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| office = [[List of Prime Ministers of Finland|7th]] [[Prime Minister of Finland]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Governments in chronological order|url=http://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/government/history/governments-and-ministers/report/-/r/v2|publisher=Finnish government (Valtioneuvosto)|accessdateaccess-date=27 March 2017}}</ref>

| birth_date = {{birth- date text|4 April 1879}}

'''Aimo Kaarlo Cajander''' (4 April 1879 in [[Uusikaupunki]] – 21 January 1943 in [[Helsinki]]) was, outside of [[botany]],<ref>[http://www.esajournals.org/esaonline/?request=get-abstract&issn=0012-9658&volume=008&issue=01&page=0135 Cajander's Theory of Forest Types] Barrington Moore - Ecology: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 135–137.</ref> best known asthe [[Prime Minister of Finland]] up to the [[Winter War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.valtioneuvosto.fi/hakemisto/ministerikortisto/ministeritiedot.asp?nro=31 |title=Ministerikortisto |publisher=Valtioneuvosto |deadurlurl-status=yesdead |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090502234849/http://www.valtioneuvosto.fi/hakemisto/ministerikortisto/ministeritiedot.asp?nro=31 |archivedatearchive-date=2009-05-02 }}</ref>

HeCajander was born in [[Uusikaupunki]], and became a [[botany|botanist]],<ref>[http://www.esajournals.org/esaonline/?request=get-abstract&issn=0012-9658&volume=008&issue=01&page=0135 Cajander's Theory of Forest Types]{{Dead link|date=October 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Barrington Moore - Ecology: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 135–137.</ref> a professor of [[forestry]] 1911&ndash;34; director-general for [[Finland]]'s Forest and Park Service 1934&ndash;1943; Prime Minister in 1922, 1924, and 1937&ndash;1939; chairman of the [[National Progressive Party of Finland|National Progressive Party]] 1933&ndash;1943; and Member of Parliament.

Forest researcher Cajander came tointo politics in 1922 when President Ståhlberg asked him to take office of prime minister. He had not earlier participated actively in politics. Ståhlberg invited him as prime minister second time in January 1924. Cajander's short-lived cabinets were merely caretakers before parliamentary elections.

Cajander joined in 1927 [[National Progressive Party (Finland)|National Progressive Party]] and in 1928 he was chosen as [[Minister of Defence (Finland)|Minister of Defence]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://valtioneuvosto.fi/tietoa/historiaa/hallitukset-ja-ministerit/raportti/-/r/v9l/11 |title=Council of State - Ministers of Defence|publisher=Valtioneuvosto.fi |accessdateaccess-date=30 December 2017 |deadurl=no }}</ref> Cajander was elected to the Parliament in 1929. When Kyösti Kallio was elected Presidentpresident in 1937, Cajander was asked as the chairman of the National Progressive Party to form majority government. Cajander formed a coalition government of the two largest parties in the parliament - Social Democrats and Agrarian League. Cajander was idealist who did not believe yet in August 1939 that Soviet Union would attack Finland. Partly for this reason the Finnish Army was forced to the fight inadequately equipped. He died in [[Helsinki]], aged 63.

Cajander's name is remembered for "Model Cajander", the fashion of many Finnish soldiers in [[Winter War]]: the army was poorly equipped, so [[Conscription|conscripts]]mobilized reserves were given a utility belt, an [[emblem]] to be attached to the hat &mdash; to comply with the [[Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)|Hague Conventions]] &mdash; and, hopefully, a [[rifle]]. Otherwise, they had to use their own clothes and equipment.

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