Martti Aleksander Pihkala (until 1906 Gummerus, 18 January 1882 – 10 June 1966) was a National Coalition Party MP who became known as a Jäger activist, Ostrobothnia White Guard founder, in the 1920s and 1930s, leader of the strikebreaking organisation Vientirauha, also known as "Pihkala's Guard" and an influencer of the Lapua movement and the Patriotic People's Movement.

In 1917, he toured with his brother Lauri Pihkala in Central Finland and Southern Ostrobothnia to talk about the importance of establishing white guards.

[9] He advocated forced sterilization[10] and the isolation of those who had "wicked" lives from society as a means of breeding a superior Finnish race.

The Lapua movement, which sought to completely ban communism and socialism, was born in part as a continuation of the work of the strike breaker organization.

[14] The nationwide network for Vientirauha played a key role in organizing the meetings leading to the birth of the Lapua movement.

[15] Pihkala was one of the key influencers of the Lapua movement and negotiated with Prime Minister Kyösti Kallio and President Lauri Kristian Relander in the role of liaison.

[17] Pihkala was elected a National Coalition Party MP in the autumn of 1930 by votes of supporters of the Lapua movement.

Later on Pihkala took a distance to IKL after it approached the working class and created its own union according to the ideology of Volksgemeinschaft.

[4] When Finland severed its relations with Germany in September 1944, Pihkala was one of the ten Finns considered to be the most dangerous, and who were detained.