Risto Ryti - Hietaniemi Cemetery - Helsinki, Finland - Grave of a Famous Person on Waymarking.com

"In the interwar years, Risto Ryti made a career as a politician in the field of economics and as an influential political background figure. He had a wide range of international contacts both in the world of banking and within the framework of the League of Nations. His work as a statesman was accomplished when he was prime minister during the Winter War and Interim Peace and president during the Continuation War. He was the main defendant in the Finnish 'war guilt' trials, and it took decades to rehabilitate his reputation.

Risto Ryti was a precocious figure amidst the dazzling whirl of business and politics in the young Republic of Finland. He was first elected to parliament at the age of 30, and over the following three years he was finance minister in two governments. He was appointed chairman of the board (governor) of the Bank of Finland at the age of only 33. In the interwar years, Ryti made a remarkable career both in financial politics and as an influential political background figure. He established a wide range of international contacts both in the world of banking and within the framework of the League of Nations. He did his real work as a statesman when he was prime minister during the Winter War and Interim Peace and president during the Continuation War. Ryti was above all steel-nerved man of crisis periods, and the highlights of his career involved the initial situation of the Winter War, the leading of Finland towards peace in March 1940, his uncompromising attitude in the face of Soviet demands after the Winter War and finally his sacrificing of himself in the situation of summer 1944 by his signing of the 'Ribbentrop agreement'."

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"Risto Ryti loi sotienvälisenä aikana uran talouspoliitikkona ja poliittisena taustavaikuttajana. Hänellä oli laajat kansainväliset suhteet sekä pankkimaailmassa että Kansainliiton organisaatiossa. Valtiomiestyönsä Risto Ryti teki talvisodan ja välirauhan ajan pääministerinä sekä jatkosodan ajan presidenttinä. Hänestä tuli Suomen sotasyyllisyysoikeudenkäynnin pääsyytetty, jonka kunniaksi pystytettiin valtiollinen muistomerkki, kirjoitettiin virallinen elämäkerta ja perustettiin muistoseura vasta 1990-luvulla. Kansakunta - kommunisteja lukuun ottamatta - ei pitänyt tuomittuja syyllisinä, vaan sijaiskärsijöinä.

Risto Ryti oli nuoren tasavallan häikäisevin talouselämän ja politiikan varhaislahjakkuus. Hänet valittiin ensimmäisen kerran eduskuntaan 30-vuotiaana, ja kolmen seuraavan vuoden aikana hän toimi kahdessa hallituksessa valtiovarainministerinä. Suomen Pankin johtokunnan puheenjohtajaksi (pääjohtajaksi) hänet nimitettiin vain 33-vuotiaana.

Ryti oli ennen muuta kylmähermoinen kriisiaikojen mies, jonka elämäntyön merkittävimmiksi huippukohdiksi muodostuivat talvisodan alkutilanne, Suomen johtaminen rauhaan maaliskuussa 1940, taipumattomuus Neuvostoliiton vaatimusten edessä talvisodan jälkeen sekä lopuksi itsensä uhraaminen kesän 1944 tilanteessa allekirjoittamalla niin sanottu Ribbentrop-sopimus."

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Description: Risto Heikki Ryti, 3 February 1889 – 25 October 1956) was the fifth president of Finland, from 1940 to 1944. Ryti started his career as a politician in the field of economics and as a political background figure during the interwar period. He made a wide range of international contacts in the world of banking and within the framework of the League of Nations. Ryti served as prime minister during the Winter War and the Interim Peace. Later he served as president during the Continuation War. After the war, Ryti was the main defendant in the Finnish War-responsibility trials. Date of birth: 02/03/1889 Date of death: 10/25/1956 Area of notoriety: Politics Marker Type: Monument Setting: Outdoor Fee required?: No Web site: [Web Link] Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Not listed

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