For a ring R of finite representation type the set of free generators is described for the group of relations of the relative Grothendieck group Ko(R, F) corresponding to an additive subfunctor F of the functor Ext,, which yields an extension to the absolute case of the corresponding results of Butler and Auslander. Bibliography: 8 titles.Let R be a ring of finite representation type, i.e., R is a left and a right Artinian ring over which there are only finitely many nonisomorphic finitely generated indecomposable (left and right) modules. The category of finitely generated right R-modules is denoted by mod R, ind R denotes the full set of nonisomorphic indecomposable modules in mod R and p.ind R is the subset of ind R that consists of projective modules. In the sequel, we consider only finitely generated right R-modules.