Ernst Constantin Willehad von Wendt (2 November 1877, Helsinki - 30 September 1939) was a Finnish journalist, member of parliament and author who wrote in Swedish. He was the brother of the politician and professor Georg von Wendt and the lawyer Carl von Wendt.
Biography
Ernst von Wendt was the son of Colonel Fredrik Willehad von Wendt and Baroness Fanny Elisabeth von Born, whose father was the politician Johan August von Born. After graduating from high school in 1896, he pursued university studies. He was a contributor to Hufvudstadsbladet from 1900 to 1906 and to the magazine Euterpe from 1902 to 1905. He was the editor-in-chief of Åbo Underrättelser from 1907 to 1918 and became editor-in-chief of Veckans krönika in 1920. He was also the Finland correspondent for several Stockholm newspapers, including as the Helsinki correspondent for Svenska Dagbladet.
Von Wendt participated in the Diet of 1904–1905 and 1905–1906 as a member of the nobility. In the first session he represented the Stierncrantz family by proxy and in the second session the von Haartman family. In 1918, he was the head of the military governor's office over Åland and from August to November of the same year, expert in the International Åland Commission (on the demolition of the Åland fortifications).
von Wendt published most of his works of fiction in the 1920s. His works are part of the early popular detective and adventure novels in Finnish-Swedish literature. His detective novels had a conservative political tone.
Ernst von Wendt was married three times, from 1906 to 1921 to Karin Fabritius, from 1921 to 1926 to Kerstin Maria Jacobsson and from 1930 to 1933 to Anna Elisabet Orest.