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It's still very srong, stronger than ever. Swedish People's Party is still giving awards named after the most well-known svecoman Axel Olof Freudenthal! Among the most known svecoman(s) are Cai-Göran Stubb, foreign minister of Finland, Elisabeth Rehn, former minister of defence in Finland. The list of the winners of the Axel Olof Freundethal prize is very long.

From Wikipedia Axel Olof Freudenthal (12 December 1836 – 2 June 1911), was a Finland Swedish philologist and politician. He was born in Siuntio, and studied at the University of Helsinki where the nationalistic movement struggle between the Fennomans and the Svecomans currently was raging. He would side with the latter propagating against the Finnification of the society. Freudenthal was appointed a docent in 1866 in Old Norse language and wrote his doctoral thesis on the dialect of Närpes in 1878. He was a Professor of Swedish language and literature between 1878-1904. He died in Helsinki. His life's work was documented by Arvid Mörne in the book Axel Olof Freudenthal och den finlandssvenska nationalitetstanken (1927).

From Wikipedia Scientific racism in the Svecoman movement in A language strife developed in the Grand Duchy of Finland in the 19th century, supported by Finnish speaking nationalists, the Fennomans, which aimed at raising the majority language, Finnish language, from peasant-status it had during the Swedish reign to the position of a national language and status. These were opposed by the Swedish speaking minority living in Finland, called Svecomans and best represented by the linguist Axel Olof Freudenthal (1836-1911), who defended the use of the Swedish language against Finnish. Svecomans were influenced by Herder, Gobineau, Blumenbach (1752-1840) and others racialist theorists, and thus considered that Finland was separated into two discrete "races," one speaking Finnish, and the other, superior one, assimilated to the "Germanic race," spoke Swedish. The racial theory was finally disproven by genetics: the genetics of Finnish-speaking and Swedish-speaking Finns do not differ from each other.