Henrik Ramsay

Who was Henrik Ramsay?

Carl Henrik Wolter Ramsay was a Finnish politician and an economist from the Swedish People's Party. He belonged to a Scottish noble family emigrated to Finland and was one of the few in Finland entitled to use the title Sir, however, Ramsay did not use the title.

Henrik Ramsay completed his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1909 at Helsinki University and worked after graduating as a sugar chemist in Russia and afterwards as a director of a sugar refinery in Helsinki.

Finland's independence in the early years Ramsay was the President and CEO of Finnish Steamship Corporation between 1920 and 1946 and again from 1948 to 1951. He was also the chairman of the board 1934-1946. He was the minister of public maintenance in Jukka Rangell's cabinet and minister of the foreign affairs in the Edwin Linkomies' cabinet during the Continuation War 1943-1944.

Ramsay was sentenced to prison for 2.5 years in the War-responsibility trials.

His father was statesman August Ramsay and his mother was Jully Ramsay, a historian.

Minister Ramsay was a versatile actor in the Finnish society since the 1910s.