Name Ossian Donner Children Patrick Donner Parents Otto Donner | Died 1957 Role Otto Donner's son | |
Ossian Donner (24 March 1866 – 2 August 1957) was a Finnish industrialist, engineer and diplomat.
Donner founded the wool mill in Hyvinkää and served as CEO of the United Wool Factory until 1918.
Donner built an house to Kruununhaka in Helsinki for his wife and two children in 1901. Today there is located Svenska Klubben.
During his civil war in Finland, his Scottish wife, Violet McHutchen, saw Russian officers being executed at the near of their home in the park. Shocking war experiences allowed the family to move to London, where Ossian Donner where Ossian Donner came the Finland's Representative and later became Charge d'affaires to the United Kingdom in 1919
During the Åland Islands dispute, he was also Finland's Special Envoy at the League of Nations.
Donner held a speech against the Soviet Union which ended his diplomatic career
Donner was released from Finland as Envoy to London in 1925. After that, he settled permanently in England and gained British citizenship.
Ossian Donner belonged to the Donner family. He was the son of Professor Otto Donner, grandson of Anders Donner and brother of the linguist and right-wing activist Kai Donner . The British Conservative MP Patrick Donner was Ossian's son.
Donner is buried at the St Andrew's Church cemetery in Hurstbourne Priors Civil Parish in Basingtoke and Deane Borough in Hampshire, England.
Donner Park is located in the center of Hyvinkää, where there is also a 14-meter Obelisk commemorating Donner's memorial, a commemoration of the Villages industry and a fountain.