(1889-02-03)3 February 1889 Huittinen, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Died
25 October 1956(1956-10-25) (aged 67) Helsinki, Finland
Political party
National Progressive
Spouse
Gerda Ryti (née Serlachius)
Children
Henrik Ryti Niilo Ryti Eva Saxén (née Ryti)
Signature
Risto Ryti's voice
Announcing the Continuation War Recorded June 26, 1941
Risto Heikki Ryti (Finnish pronunciation:[ˈristoˈhei̯kːiˈryti]; 3 February 1889 – 25 October 1956) was a Finnish politician who served as the fifth president of Finland from 1940 to 1944.[1] 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, and as president during the Continuation War.
Ryti penned the 1944 Ryti–Ribbentrop Agreement – named after himself and Joachim von Ribbentrop – a personal letter to Nazi German Führer Adolf Hitler whereby Ryti agreed not to reach a separate peace in the Continuation War against the Soviet Union without approval from Nazi Germany, in order to secure German military aid for Finland to stop the Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive against Finland.[2] His resignation soon afterwards allowed his successor, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, to bypass the agreement and make peace with the Soviet Union once the offensive had been stopped.
After the war, Ryti was the main defendant in the Finnish war-responsibility trials (1945–1946),[3] which resulted in his conviction for crimes against peace. He was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment but was pardoned by decision of President Juho Kusti Paasikivi in 1949. His reputation was largely unscathed, but his health had suffered and he never returned to public life.
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Jokisipilä, Markku (2004). Aseveljiä vai liittolaisia (in Finnish). SKS. ISBN 951-746-609-9.
Risto Heikki Ryti (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈristo ˈhei̯kːi ˈryti]; 3 February 1889 – 25 October 1956) was a Finnish politician who served as the fifth...
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ISBN 9781565126923. Martti Turtola [fi]. Turtola, Martti (1994). RistoRyti: Elämä isänmaan puolesta [RistoRyti: A Life for the Fatherland] (in Finnish). Helsinki:...
1943. Educated as a lawyer, he was a close acquaintance of President RistoRyti before the war, and made his initial career as a banker in the Bank of...
common. Other justifications for the conflict include Finnish President RistoRyti's vision of a Greater Finland and Commander-in-Chief Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim's...
At Immola Airfield, Hitler was greeted and accompanied by President RistoRyti and Finnish officials to Mannerheim's personal train, where a birthday...
electoral college was recalled and re-elected RistoRyti, who received 269 of the 300 votes. President Ryti was ready to remain in office and to try to...
advisor. He ended up in the cabinet's leading triumvirate together with RistoRyti and Foreign Minister Väinö Tanner (chairman of the Social Democrats)....
Risto Rosendahl (born 1979), speed skater RistoRyti (1889–1956), fifth President of Finland from 1940 to 1944 Risto Siilasmaa (born 1966), the chairman, founder...
Party candidate RistoRyti by 172 votes to 109. He was elected largely due to the fact that he attracted less opposition than RistoRyti[citation needed]...
government of Aimo Cajander continued in office. However, he was replaced by RistoRyti's Progressive-led war government in December 1939. The leading issues were...
Gerda Ryti (née Serlachius; 11 October 1886 – 8 September 1984) was the wife of Finland's fifth president, RistoRyti, serving as the First Lady of Finland...
and elected Prime Minister RistoRyti, who received 288 of the 300 votes. Most other Finnish politicians considered Ryti a principled, unselfish, intelligent...
predecessor Ryti had announced his resignation during the war. K. J. Ståhlberg Lauri Kristian Relander P. E. Svinhufvud Kyösti Kallio RistoRyti Gustaf Mannerheim...
in the same area where presidents Urho Kekkonen, Mauno Koivisto and RistoRyti are buried. Notable guests of the service included the president of Namibia...
originally had the class name R1. They were nicknamed “Risto”, after the Finnish President RistoRyti. They were numbered 1030–1096. 67 locomotives were built...
(1925–1931), Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (1931–1937), Kyösti Kallio (1937–1940), RistoRyti (1940–1944), Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1944–1946), Juho Kusti Paasikivi...
RistoRyti's second cabinet was the 24th government of Republic of Finland. Cabinet's time period was from March 27, 1940, to January 4, 1941. It was Majority...
people had the chance to vote for the following three leading candidates: RistoRyti, C.G.E. Mannerheim and Urho Kekkonen. The winner was baron Carl Gustaf...
stipulated that Marshal Mannerheim be elected president for six years after RistoRyti had resigned mid-term. In 1946, special legislation empowered the Parliament...
RistoRyti's first cabinet was the 23rd government of Republic of Finland. Cabinet's time period was from December 1, 1939, to March 27, 1940. It was Majority...
presidentit I, Helsinki: WSOY, 1994 Martti Turtola, RistoRyti: A Life for the Fatherland / RistoRyti. Elämä isänmaan puolesta, Helsinki: Otava, 1994 "595...
Archived from the original on Aug 20, 2023. Turtola, Martti (2000). "RistoRyti". In Marjomaa, Ulpu (ed.). 100 faces from Finland. Finnish Literature...
Hannah Mitchell, English socialist and suffragette (b. 1872) October 25 – RistoRyti, 23rd Prime Minister of Finland and 5th President of Finland (b. 1889)...
the Lion of Finland Cross of Merit of the Order of the Lion of Finland RistoRyti (1942) Aimo Cajander (1942) Harri Holma (1942) Gustaf Ignatius [fi] (1942)...
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