Pehr Norrmén

Pehr Herman Norrmén (22 April 1894 – 1 April 1945) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish banker, journalist and author. He was one of the founders of the Jäger movement and was one of the most influential representatives of right-wing radicalism in Finland, with a distinctly pro-German political orientation.

Biography Born in Helsinki, Norrmén was the son of Herman Norrmén and Eva Victoria Molander. He graduated in 1913 from the University of Helsinki and was a member of the promotion committee there. In the summer of 1914 he went to England to collect material for his doctoral thesis, but he returned when World War I broke out. Norrmén belonged to the inner circle of young academics who in 1914 took the initiative for the Jäger movement and worked for it in Stockholm, Sweden, where he participated in negotiations with Swedes and Germans about military training for Finnish volunteers. He has been described as the first person to raise the question of armed struggle as the inevitable path to Finnish independence. From 1931 he was a member of the board of directors of the Nordic Union Bank, and in 1939 he was appointed deputy CEO there.