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14 December 1918 Today, ninety-four years ago, King Väinö I renounced the Finnish throne after just two months. It was the end to an abortive attempt by the Royal House of Hohenzollern to establish a monarchy following Finland's independence from the former Russian Empire. |
Because Väinö was in fact a German Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse
(actually the brother-in-law of Kaiser William II) who had been
elected by the Parliament of Finland prior to the collapse of the
Second Reich. He took the regnal name of Väinö to show his support to
cause of Finnish independence from foreign rule.
However after the
ending of the monarchies in Imperial Germany the arrangement was
quickly considered untenable by influential Finns of the time and
indeed by Frederick himself.
All three countries would endure civil war before they finally became
Republicans.
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