Kai Donner

Kai Donner (1888–1935), Finnish linguist and politician. Refugee in Sweden and Germany 1916–1918 as a separatist striving for Finland's independence from Russia. During the Civil War in Finland, Kai Donner served as General Mannerheim's aide-de-camp.

In the 1920s and early 1930s he was one of the more influential leaders of the rightist Lapua Movement. Finland-Swedish by mother tongue, he expressed reservation against the more extreme persecution of Swedish speakers that were commonly supported among conservative Finns in those decades.