Kullervo Manner

Kullervo Manner
Chairman of the Finnish People's Delegation of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic
In office 29 January 1918 – 25 April 1918
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Speaker of the Parliament
In office 4 April 1917 – 31 October 1917
Preceded by	Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
Succeeded by	Johannes Lundson
Leader of the Finnish Communist Party
In office 1920–1935
Preceded by	Yrjö Sirola
Succeeded by	Hannes Mäkinen
Leader of the Finnish Social Democratic Party
In office 1917–1918
Preceded by	Matti Paasivuori
Succeeded by	Väinö Tanner
Personal details
Born	Kullervo Achilles Manner 12 October 1880 Kokemäki, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Died	15 January 1939 (aged 58) Ukhta-Pechora, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political party	SDP SKP
Spouse(s)	Olga Arjanne (divorced 1925) Hanna Malm[1]

Kullervo Achilles Manner (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkulːerʋo ˈmɑnːer]; Russian: Куллерво Густавович Маннер, romanized: Kullervo Gustavovich Manner; 12 October 1880 – 15 January 1939) was a Finnish and Soviet politician. He was one of the leaders of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic.

Manner was a member of the Finnish parliament, serving as its speaker in 1917. He was also the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland between 1917 and 1918. During the Finnish Civil War, he led the Finnish People's Delegation, a leftist alternative to the established Finnish government. After the war, he escaped to Soviet Russia, where he co-founded the Finnish Communist Party. It is said if the Red Guards had won the Civil War, Manner might have risen to the position of the "Leader of the Red Finland".^[2][3][4]