Reidar Hedman

Lennart Reidar Armas Hedman (17 June 1896 Vanaja – 26 October 1961 in Tullinge, Stockholm County, Sweden)^[1] was a Finnish educator, eugenicist and far-right politician. He had a master's degree in philosophy.^[2] He had studied genetics at the University of Helsinki under Harry Federley.^[3]

Reidar Hedman was the director of the Perttula Education Institute for the Feeble-Minded, the first Finnish-language developmental disability institution founded by his father Edvin Hedman, in 1927–1944.^[4] Hedman specialized in eugenics and racial hygiene and supported a comprehensive forced sterilization program for the mentally handicapped.^[5] Hedman believed that human intelligence was the basis of all spiritual life and could not be elevated through education, for example.^[6]

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Pre-1945 groups	Academic Karelia Society Blue Cross Blue-and-Blacks Finnish Realm Union Finnish-Socialist Workers' Party Finnish National Socialist Labor Organisation Front Soldier League Finnish People's Organisation Finnish Labor Front Labor Organisation of Brothers-in-Arms Lalli Alliance of Finland Lapua Movement Organisation of National Socialists National Socialists of Finland National Socialist Union of Finland National Trade Union Confederation of Finland NSDAP/AO Finnland Party of Finnish Labor Patriotic Citizens of Viitasaari Patriotic People's Movement Patriotic People's Party People's Community Society Rising Finland Stormers Vientirauha
Post-1945 groups	Atomwaffen Division Finland Blood & Honour Finland Blue-and-Black Movement Blue and White Front Constitutional Right Party Crew 38 Finland Finland – Fatherland Finns Party Finnish People First Finnish People's Blue-Whites For Independence Freedom Alliance Kohti Vapautta! National Democratic Party National Union Council Nordic Resistance Movement Patriotic People's Movement Patriotic Popular Front Power Belongs to the People Suomen Sisu Soldiers of Odin Turku Society for the Spiritual Sciences Truth Party (Finland)
Pre-1945 people	Reino Ala-Kulju Vilho Annala Torsten Aminoff Hjalmar von Bonsdorff Severin Dobrovolsky Kai Donner Johan Christian Fabritius Petter Forsström C. A. J. Gadolin Herman Gummerus Yrjö von Grönhagen Bertel Gripenberg Reidar Hedman Vilho Helanen Gunnar von Hertzen Carl-Gustaf Herlitz Kalevi Heikkinen Antti Isotalo Y. W. Jalander Karl Jansson Kustaa Jussila Kaarlo Kares Y. P. I. Kaila Hans Kalm Arvi Kalsta Rauno Kallia Toivo Karanko Edvard Karvonen Aarne Kauhanen Juho Kaveheimo Olavi Karpalo Yrjö Kivenoja Juhani Konkka Vihtori Kosola Jussi Leino Gunnar Lindqvist Arvi Malmivaara Jussi Muilu Iisakki Nikkola Vietti Nykänen Thorvald Oljemark Johannes Öhquist Unto Parvilahti Martti Pihkala Otto Piisinen Boris Popper Yrjö Raikas Niilo Rauvala Erkki Räikkönen Hilja Riipinen John Rosberg Yrjö Ruutu Yrjö Saarinen Antti Salamaa Bruno Salmiala Kaarlo Salovaara Jaakko Seise Elias Simojoki Teo Snellman Arne Somersalo Paavo Susitaival Paavo Talvela Eino Tuomivaara Örnulf Tigerstedt Jukka Tyrkkö Ensio Uoti Mauno Vannas Kurt Martti Wallenius Artturi Vuorimaa
Post-1945 people	James Hirvisaari Esa Henrik Holappa [fi] Juha Korhonen Juha Kärkkäinen Jouni Lanamäki Seppo Lehto Junes Lokka Olavi Mäenpää Pekka Siitoin Ano Turtiainen Tuukka Kuru
Pre-1945 events	Assassination of Heikki Ritavuori Murder of Onni Happonen Murder of Erik Mättö [fi] Murder of Yrjö Holm [fi] Mäntsälä rebellion Peasant March Ståhlberg kidnapping Vaasa riot
Post-1945 events	612 march Kursiivi printing house arson 1986 Oulu airplane hijacking attempt [fi] Jyväskylä library stabbing 2016 Helsinki Asema-aukio assault Pekka Kataja assassination attempt [fi] Kankaanpää terrorism arrests Lahti terrorism arrests [fi]
Other	21 Paths to the Kingdom of Darkness Ajan Suunta Finnish volunteers in the Waffen-SS Finnlands Lebensraum Kansallissosialisti Kustaa Vaasa Magneettimedia MV-media Siniristi Steelfest Pro-German resistance movement in Finland (Thoralf Kyrre, Lauri Törni, Arvid Ojasti, Claes Purjo)

Reidar Hedman

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