Juho Kusti Paasikivi
1870 – 1956 · aged 86
7th President of Finland (1870-1956)
- Born
- 27 Nov 1870 · Hämeenkoski
- Died
- 14 Dec 1956 · Helsinki
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 27 Nov 1870BornBorn in Hämeenkoski
- 1905AwardOrder of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class
- 1907 – 1909RoleMember of the Parliament of Finland
- 1910 – 1914RoleMember of the Parliament of Finland
- 1913AwardOrder of Saint Anna, 2nd class
- 1918RolePrime Minister of Finland
- 1919AwardCross of Liberty, 1st Class
- 1919AwardIron Cross on white ribbon
- 1920AwardGrand Cross of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
- 1933AwardGrand Cross of the Order of the Crown
- 1935AwardGrand Officer of the Legion of Honour
- 1938AwardCommanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star
- 1940AwardCross of Liberty, 1st Class with star
- 1944 – 1946RolePrime Minister of Finland
- 1946AwardGrand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
- 1946 – 1956RolePresident of Finland
- 1946AwardGrand Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland
- 1947AwardRoyal Order of the Seraphim
- 14 Dec 1956DiedDied in Helsinki
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1870 – 1956).
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
Biography
Juho Kusti Paasikivi (27 November 1870 – 14 December 1956) was a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland from 1946 to 1956. Representing the Finnish Party until its dissolution in 1918 and then the National Coalition Party, he previously served as senator, member of parliament (1907–1909, 1910–1914), envoy to Stockholm (1936–1939) and Moscow (1940–1941), and Prime Minister of Finland (1918 and 1944–1946). He also held several other positions of trust, and was an influential figure in Finnish economics and politics for over fifty years.
Paasikivi has been remembered as a tenacious and temperamental character, but also as a realistic peace negotiator and a main architect of Finland's foreign policy after the Second World War; for example, the Paasikivi Society (Paasikivi-seura), founded in 1958 under the leadership of Jan-Magnus Jansson, sought to nurture Paasikivi's political legacy, especially during the Cold War, by promoting 'fact-based foreign policy thinking' in Finland and making Finland's policy of neutrality internationally known. Paasikivi was also the last Finnish president born in the 1800s and the "lowest" in terms of social origin.
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