page_title: Aatos Erkko
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Aatos Erkko / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Aatos Erkko Suomi: Viikkosanomat -lehden päätoimittaja Aatos Erkko työpöytänsä ääressä 1953.
context_page_description: Aatos Juho Michel Erkko was a Finnish newspaper editor, newspaper publisher, and the main owner of the Sanoma Corporation and the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, of which he was also the editor in chief.
  He was for many years the wealthiest person in Finland and directly or indirectly controlled 23.29% of the Sanoma Corporation's shares, whose value on 29 July 2009 was more than €453 million.
context_section_description: Aatos Erkko was born in Helsinki. He married Jane Airola in 1959, but they did not have any children.
  His father was the politician and journalist Eljas Erkko, who preceded him as editor in chief of Helsingin Sanomat, and his mother was the English-born Eugenia Violet Sutcliffe. Erkko's grandfather Eero Erkko was also a journalist and politician, best remembered as the founder of Helsingin Sanomat.
caption: Aatos Erkko in 1953, as editor in chief of the news magazine Viikkosanomat, his first job as a journalist. This magazine was also owned by Sanoma.
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