Författare

Henrik Ramsay was born the oldest son of a noble Finnish family of Swedish and Scottish origins in 1886, in what was then the Grand Duchy of Finland in the Russian Empire. He was a business executive, an administrator and politician and a dedicated sailor from early childhood.
His most prominent business position was as long-term chairman of the Finnish Steamship Corporation. In politics and administration, his posts included the chairmanship of the foodstuffs authority in Helsingfors, the capital of Finland, in the latter part of the First World War and that of Finnish foreign minister in 1943-1944 during the Second World War. This latter role led to Russia’s insistence that he (and others) serve war responsibility prison sentences following Germany’s surrender in 1945, on the basis that Finland had been a co-belligerent of Germany, following Russia’s attack on Finland in 1939.
Ramsay wrote his legendary memoir Sommar och segel in part during his time in prison 1946-1947. In 1951, he died suddenly on board his yacht Regina, which he had bequeathed to his friend Marcus Wallenberg Jr.