Lennart Hohenthal

Karl Lennart Hohenthal (25 March 1877 – 13 August 1951), known from 1905 as Eric Alvén, was a Finnish activist. Hohenthal became known for assassinating the Procurator Eliel Soisalon-Soininen on 6 February 1905, during the first period of the Russification of Finland. He was sentenced to life imprisonment but escaped from prison in October the same year and travelled via Sweden to England, where he lived the rest of his life under the name Eric Alvén, working as a physiotherapist and businessman. Hohenthal was the eldest son of Klas Emil Hohenthal (born 1846 in Lapua) and Leonie Reichnitz (born 1845 in Stockholm). His father was ordained as a priest in 1871 and served as an assistant pastor and acting vicar in several parishes across Ostrobothnia (including Nurmo, Kuortane, Replot, and Malax). He then served as the vicar in from 1885 to 1898, in Nivala from 1898 to 1904, and in Laihia from 1904. Lennart Hohenthal was born in Kuortane on November 25, 1877.

In May 1904, Hohenthal drew up a plan to assassinate Bobrikov. He contacted Eugen Schauman, whom he knew from his schooldays in Vaasa, and asked him to take part in the conspiracy. Schauman then revealed that he had already devised his own plan for the assassination, and the two agreed that Schauman would be given until the week before Midsummer to carry out the deed alone; if he failed, Hohenthal's group would take over. Since Schauman succeeded on 16 June 1904, the conspirators had to devise new plans.

Works Memoarer [Memoirs], Stockholm 1908. Eugen Schauman. Minnen och anteckningar [Eugen Schauman: Memories and notes], 1925.