1. Martti Aleksander Pihkala was a National Coalition Party MP who became known as a Jager activist, Ostrobothnia White Guard founder, in the 1920s and 1930s, leader of the strikebreaking organisation Vientirauha, known as "Pihkala's Guard" and an influencer of the Lapua movement and the Patriotic People's Movement.
Martti Pihkala was born into the Gummerus family, known as the clergy family.
Martti Pihkala's parents were provost Aleksanteri Gummerus and Alma Maria Nordlund.
Martti Pihkala took part in the Finnish Civil War on the White side in the 1st Battalion of the Northern Hame Regiment, led by the Estonian Hans Kalm, which later became known for its violence and war crimes.
Martti Pihkala was in the White guard headquarters organizing detachments which played a key role in the white terror that took place during the Civil War.
Martti Pihkala advocated forced sterilization and the isolation of those who had "wicked" lives from society as a means of breeding a superior Finnish race.
Martti Pihkala placed harmony between social classes as a counterbalance to moral decay and socialism.
Martti Pihkala was one of the key influencers of the Lapua movement and negotiated with Prime Minister Kyosti Kallio and President Lauri Kristian Relander in the role of liaison.
Martti Pihkala was elected a National Coalition Party MP in the autumn of 1930 by votes of supporters of the Lapua movement.
Later on Martti Pihkala took a distance to IKL after it approached the working class and created its own union according to the ideology of Volksgemeinschaft.
When Finland severed its relations with Germany in September 1944, Martti Pihkala was one of the ten Finns considered to be the most dangerous, and who were detained.
Martti Pihkala was placed under house arrest for three years on a farm he owned in the Helsinki countryside in Rekola.
Martti Pihkala spent his last years away from politics, cultivating his farm.