Johan Kock

Johan Kock (4 June 1861 – 13 April 1915) was a Finnish soldier who had been decommissioned from the Russian army in Viipuri in 1897. Kock was a revolutionary who was the leader of the Finnish Labour Corps from 1905 to 1906.

Biography Kock was born in Helsinki. Kock gained the support and trust of the general governor Ivan Obolensky. Nevertheless, Obolensky negotiated with the Constitutionals how to solve the strike by political means. The Academic society could not accept Kock's leadership: university students and polytechniques split off, founding their own organisation under the leadership of Gösta Thörsleff.

The Constitutionals wanted to end the strike on 5 November, but the Labour Corps insisted on deciding whether to end the strike at a mass meeting of workers. Kock, who supported the strike, attended the negotiations to end the strike. The strike ended on 6 November, and on the next day Kock pulled his troops from the Helsinki police stations.