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Arvi Kalsta
Arvi Kalsta (until 1927 Arvid Daniel Grönberg, 14 October 1890 – 25 May 1982) was a Finnish Jaeger captain, the founder of the Nazi Finnish People's Organisation and a businessman. In the 1930s, the Finnish Nazis who belonged to his supporters were called Kalstaites.
Kalsta was born in Joensuu. His parents were master builder Bror Gustaf Adolf Grönberg and Ida Sofia Skutnabb. Grönberg enrolled as a student at the Joensuu Classical Lyceum in 1912 and joined the Karelian Association. He studied at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology from 1912 to 1915, but did not complete a degree. He later studied without graduating from the Faculty of Law of the University of Helsinki in 1931–1932.
Kalsta married Elin Impi Tika in 1920, whom he divorced in 1937; he remarried in 1939 to Kerttu Annikki Savolainen.
Grönberg joined one of the first 55 jäger volunteers to join the Lockstedter Jäger training camp in northern Germany. He enrolled in the camp on 25 February 1915. He was placed in the 1st Company of the 27th Jäger Battalion, from 9 November 1915, from which he was transferred to the 3rd Company of the Battalion.
Grönberg took part in the battles of the First World War on the eastern front of Germany on the Misse River and the Gulf of Riga, from where he was sent for special missions to northern Sweden and Finland from 4 December 1916 to 14 October 1917. After returning from Finland, he completed the A-course of a military school held in Libau in 1917.
Grönberg arrived in Finland after being promoted to captain on 25 February 1918. He joined the Finnish civil war as the commander of 2nd company of the 1st Jäger battalion of the 1st Jäger regiment. Grönberg took part in the battles of the Civil War in Tampere, Kämärä and Vyborg. He was appointed commander of the White Guard Jäger battalion after the Civil War. Kalsta's military career at the time was cut short after he shot an armed Polish prisoner of war who'd received special permission to carry a weapon by Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. Although Kalsta received an extremely lenient sentence of 30 days, he resigned from the army months later.
In 1929 Kalsta agreed to lead the Lalli Alliance of Finland. Kalsta was part of the Lapua movement's group, which kidnapped the Social Democrat Deputy Speaker of Parliament and the Mayor of Tampere, Väinö Hakkila, from 17 to 18 July 1930. Kalsta captured Hakkila at his summer residence in Teisko and transported him via Lapua to Kuortane, where Hakkila was beaten and forced to sit in an anthill, among other things. Kalsta was convicted and served time in prison for kidnapping, albeit his accomplices were all released on probation.
On 10 September 1932 Kalsta traveled to Germany with Thorvald Oljemark to get acquainted with the activities of the East Prussian District Staff of the German National Socialist Workers' Party (NSDAP). He was influenced by the activities of the Nazi Party, including the election campaign, and became acquainted with the party's internal organizational and propaganda work. He returned from Germany on 30 November 1932.
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Arvi Kalsta
Arvi Kalsta (until 1927 Arvid Daniel Grönberg, 14 October 1890 – 25 May 1982) was a Finnish Jaeger captain, the founder of the Nazi Finnish People's Organisation and a businessman. In the 1930s, the Finnish Nazis who belonged to his supporters were called Kalstaites.
Kalsta was born in Joensuu. His parents were master builder Bror Gustaf Adolf Grönberg and Ida Sofia Skutnabb. Grönberg enrolled as a student at the Joensuu Classical Lyceum in 1912 and joined the Karelian Association. He studied at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology from 1912 to 1915, but did not complete a degree. He later studied without graduating from the Faculty of Law of the University of Helsinki in 1931–1932.
Kalsta married Elin Impi Tika in 1920, whom he divorced in 1937; he remarried in 1939 to Kerttu Annikki Savolainen.
Grönberg joined one of the first 55 jäger volunteers to join the Lockstedter Jäger training camp in northern Germany. He enrolled in the camp on 25 February 1915. He was placed in the 1st Company of the 27th Jäger Battalion, from 9 November 1915, from which he was transferred to the 3rd Company of the Battalion.
Grönberg took part in the battles of the First World War on the eastern front of Germany on the Misse River and the Gulf of Riga, from where he was sent for special missions to northern Sweden and Finland from 4 December 1916 to 14 October 1917. After returning from Finland, he completed the A-course of a military school held in Libau in 1917.
Grönberg arrived in Finland after being promoted to captain on 25 February 1918. He joined the Finnish civil war as the commander of 2nd company of the 1st Jäger battalion of the 1st Jäger regiment. Grönberg took part in the battles of the Civil War in Tampere, Kämärä and Vyborg. He was appointed commander of the White Guard Jäger battalion after the Civil War. Kalsta's military career at the time was cut short after he shot an armed Polish prisoner of war who'd received special permission to carry a weapon by Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. Although Kalsta received an extremely lenient sentence of 30 days, he resigned from the army months later.
In 1929 Kalsta agreed to lead the Lalli Alliance of Finland. Kalsta was part of the Lapua movement's group, which kidnapped the Social Democrat Deputy Speaker of Parliament and the Mayor of Tampere, Väinö Hakkila, from 17 to 18 July 1930. Kalsta captured Hakkila at his summer residence in Teisko and transported him via Lapua to Kuortane, where Hakkila was beaten and forced to sit in an anthill, among other things. Kalsta was convicted and served time in prison for kidnapping, albeit his accomplices were all released on probation.
On 10 September 1932 Kalsta traveled to Germany with Thorvald Oljemark to get acquainted with the activities of the East Prussian District Staff of the German National Socialist Workers' Party (NSDAP). He was influenced by the activities of the Nazi Party, including the election campaign, and became acquainted with the party's internal organizational and propaganda work. He returned from Germany on 30 November 1932.