Johan Kemp

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| name = Johan Kemp

| image = Johan Kemp.png

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| caption = Kemp in the early 1900s

| full_name = Johan Valdemar Kemppainen

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|07|01|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1941|10|20|1881|07|01|df=yes}}

| death_place = Lahti, Finland

| discipline = MAG

| country = Finland

| natlteam =

| club = Helsingfors Gymnastikklubb

| show-medals = yes

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Johan Valdemar Kemppainen (1 July 1881 – 20 October 1941) was a Finnish athlete who won bronze in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Background

Kemp performed his matriculation exam in the Kotka Swedish Co-educational School in 1904.{{cite book | last1 = Schybergson | first1 = Carl Magnus | translator-last1 = Niemi | translator-first1 = Jalmari | date = 1942 | title = Johan Kemp. Aktivisti ja isänmaanystävä | language = fi | location = Lahti | page = 25}}

He started his career in banking in 1906.{{cite book | last1 = Schybergson | first1 = Carl Magnus | translator-last1 = Niemi | translator-first1 = Jalmari | date = 1942 | title = Johan Kemp. Aktivisti ja isänmaanystävä | language = fi | location = Lahti | page = 36}} He became a bank manager in Helsingin Osakepankki in Lahti in 1919.{{cite book | last1 = Schybergson | first1 = Carl Magnus | translator-last1 = Niemi | translator-first1 = Jalmari | date = 1942 | title = Johan Kemp. Aktivisti ja isänmaanystävä | language = fi | location = Lahti | page = 58}}

He was an independent member of the Lahti city council in 1930–1931.{{cite book | last1 = Schybergson | first1 = Carl Magnus | translator-last1 = Niemi | translator-first1 = Jalmari | date = 1942 | title = Johan Kemp. Aktivisti ja isänmaanystävä | language = fi | location = Lahti | page = 42}}{{cite book | last1 = Halila | first1 = Aimo | date = 1958 | title = Lahden historia | language = fi | location = Lahti | publisher = Lahden kaupunki | page = 681}}

Sport

Kemp took part in two different sports in the Olympics.

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Games !Sport !Event !Rank !Result !Notes
rowspan=5\|1908 Summer Olympics \|Gymnastics \|Team \|style=background-color:#cc9966\| 3rd \| 405 points \| Source: {{cite book \| title = The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary \| last1 = Mallon \| first1 = Bill \| last2 = Buchanan \| first2 = Ian \| publisher = McFarland \| location = Jefferson, North Carolina, United States \| date = 2001 \| pages = [https://archive.org/details/resultsofearlymo00mall_0/page/185 185] \| isbn = 978-0-7864-0598-5 \| url-access = registration \| url = https://archive.org/details/resultsofearlymo00mall_0/page/185 }}
rowspan=4\|Athletics \|Freestyle javelin throw \|10th–33rd \|unknown \|Source: {{cite book \| title = The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary \| last1 = Mallon \| first1 = Bill \| last2 = Buchanan \| first2 = Ian \| publisher = McFarland \| location = Jefferson, North Carolina, United States \| date = 2001 \| pages = [https://archive.org/details/resultsofearlymo00mall_0/page/98 98] \| isbn = 978-0-7864-0598-5 \| url-access = registration \| url = https://archive.org/details/resultsofearlymo00mall_0/page/98 }}
Shot put \|colspan=2\| Did not start \|
Discus throw \|colspan=2\| Did not start \|
Greek discus throw \|colspan=2\| Did not start \|

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|+ Johan Kemp at the Olympic Games

Games

!Sport

!Event

!Rank

!Result

!Notes

rowspan=5|1908 Summer Olympics

|Gymnastics

|Team

|style=background-color:#cc9966| 3rd

| 405 points

| Source: {{cite book | title = The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary | last1 = Mallon | first1 = Bill | last2 = Buchanan | first2 = Ian | publisher = McFarland | location = Jefferson, North Carolina, United States | date = 2001 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/resultsofearlymo00mall_0/page/185 185] | isbn = 978-0-7864-0598-5 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/resultsofearlymo00mall_0/page/185 }}

rowspan=4|Athletics

|Freestyle javelin throw

|10th–33rd

|unknown

|Source: {{cite book | title = The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary | last1 = Mallon | first1 = Bill | last2 = Buchanan | first2 = Ian | publisher = McFarland | location = Jefferson, North Carolina, United States | date = 2001 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/resultsofearlymo00mall_0/page/98 98] | isbn = 978-0-7864-0598-5 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/resultsofearlymo00mall_0/page/98 }}

Shot put

|colspan=2| Did not start

Discus throw

|colspan=2| Did not start

Greek discus throw

|colspan=2| Did not start

He was the commodore of the sailing club Lahden Purjehdusseura for over ten years.{{cite book | last1 = Schybergson | first1 = Carl Magnus | translator-last1 = Niemi | translator-first1 = Jalmari | date = 1942 | title = Johan Kemp. Aktivisti ja isänmaanystävä | language = fi | location = Lahti | page = 40}}

Activism

He was a resistance activist during the period of Russification of Finland, although he estimated his role as minor.{{cite book | last1 = Schybergson | first1 = Carl Magnus | translator-last1 = Niemi | translator-first1 = Jalmari | date = 1942 | title = Johan Kemp. Aktivisti ja isänmaanystävä | language = fi | location = Lahti | pages = 27–32}}

He was a founding member of the Lahti White Guard in August 1917 and joined the White Guard district staff in December. He took part in the Mommila skirmish as a leader in November 1917.{{cite book | last1 = Schybergson | first1 = Carl Magnus | translator-last1 = Niemi | translator-first1 = Jalmari | date = 1942 | title = Johan Kemp. Aktivisti ja isänmaanystävä | language = fi | location = Lahti | pages = 44–49}}{{cite book | last1 = Hersalo | first1 = N. V. | date = 1955 | title = Puolustustahtoinen kansa. Muinaisitsenäisyydestä valtiolliseen riippumattomuuteen | series = Suojeluskuntain historia | language = fi | volume = I | location = Helsinki | publisher = Hata | pages = 264–267}}{{cite book | last1 = Hurme | first1 = Matti | date = 1937 | title = Mommila | language = fi | location = Porvoo | publisher = WSOY | page = 67}} He spent the Finnish Civil War obtaining rifles and ammunition and serving as an aide-de-camp and a chief of staff to various commanding officers.{{cite book | last1 = Schybergson | first1 = Carl Magnus | translator-last1 = Niemi | translator-first1 = Jalmari | date = 1942 | title = Johan Kemp. Aktivisti ja isänmaanystävä | language = fi | location = Lahti | pages = 53–56}}

He remained in the local White Guard leadership up to his death.{{cite book | last1 = Schybergson | first1 = Carl Magnus | translator-last1 = Niemi | translator-first1 = Jalmari | date = 1942 | title = Johan Kemp. Aktivisti ja isänmaanystävä | language = fi | location = Lahti | pages = 63–64}} He was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Frontman's Union of Liberation War.{{cite book | last1 = Uola | first1 = Mikko | date = 1988 | title = Rintamamiesten liitto. Vapaussodan rintamamiesten liitto/Rintamamiesliitto 1929–1944 | language = fi | location = Tampere | publisher = Vapaussoturien huoltosäätiö | page = 109 | isbn = 9519989390}}

Personal

His parents were coachman Juha Juhanpoika Kemppainen and Edla Gustava Helenius.{{cite book | last1 = Schybergson | first1 = Carl Magnus | translator-last1 = Niemi | translator-first1 = Jalmari | date = 1942 | title = Johan Kemp. Aktivisti ja isänmaanystävä | language = fi | location = Lahti | page = 11}} He married Helmi Maria Markkanen in 1910. They had four daughters:

Margareta Maria
Vava Elisabet
Inga Maija
Asta Britta

They divorced in 1919. He married Ruth Elna Alanco in 1922. They had no children.{{cite book | last1 = Schybergson | first1 = Carl Magnus | translator-last1 = Niemi | translator-first1 = Jalmari | date = 1942 | title = Johan Kemp. Aktivisti ja isänmaanystävä | language = fi | location = Lahti | pages = 36–37}}

He died of a cardiac arrest.{{cite book | last1 = Schybergson | first1 = Carl Magnus | translator-last1 = Niemi | translator-first1 = Jalmari | date = 1942 | title = Johan Kemp. Aktivisti ja isänmaanystävä | language = fi | location = Lahti | page = 69}} He is buried at the Old Cemetery in Lahti.{{cite news | last1 = Mellberg | first1 = Ira | date = 3 January 2020 | orig-date = first edition published 20 July 2017 | title = Hautausmaiden muurit kätkevät sisäpuolelleen tuhansia tarinoita — osallistu aikamatkalle opastetulla kierroksella | url = https://www.ess.fi/paikalliset/222921 | work = Etelä-Suomen Sanomat | language = fi | issn = 0359-5056 | access-date = 4 October 2023}}