Mauritz Rosenberg (1879–1941) was a Finnish politician who served as vice president and finance minister of the Terijoki government during the Finnish Democratic Republic.

Biography

Rosenberg was born in

Turku Turku ( ; ; , ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland. It is located on the southwestern coast of the country at the mouth of the Aura River (Finland), River Aura. The population of Turku is approximately , while t ...

in 1879. He worked as a locomotive driver and newspaper editor. Rosenberg was a member of the

Finnish Communist Party The Communist Party of Finland (, SKP; ) was a communist political party in Finland. The SKP was a section of Comintern and illegal in Finland until 1944. The SKP was banned by the state from its founding and did not participate in any elec ...

. He was arrested and detained until 1934. Following his release he settled in the

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. In the period between 1 December 1939 and 12 March 1940 Rosenberg served as vice president and finance minister in the cabinet, known as Terijoki government, led by

Otto Wille Kuusinen Otto Wilhelm "Wille" Kuusinen (; ; 4 October 1881 – 17 May 1964) was a Finnish-born Soviet politician, literary historian, and poet. After the defeat of the Reds in the Finnish Civil War, he fled to the Soviet Union, where he worked unti ...

. Rosenberg died in 1941. His son, Gösta Rosenberg, was a member of the

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for the Communist Party between 1945 and 1966.

References

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