Artturi Jämsén

Artturi Jämsén (born February 7, 1925 in Pihtipudas , † August 11, 1976 in Moscow ) was a Finnish politician of the rural league ML (Maalaisliitto) and the center party KES (Suomen Keskusta) , which emerged from it in 1965 and who was Finland's interior minister between 1970 and 1971 and was subsequently governor of the province of Central Finland from 1971 until his death in 1976 .

Life

Jämsén, son of the farmer Otto Jämsén and his wife Iida Paananen, attended elementary school and community college and then worked on his parents' farm. In 1946 he became an employee in the office of the rural union ML (Maalaisliitto) for Central Finland and then acted from 1947 to 1952 as managing director of the youth association of the rural union (Maaseudun Nuorten Liitto) for central Finland and at the same time between 1950 and 1954 as managing director of the ML there. He also managed a farm in Kontinkangas between 1953 and 1955 and then from 1955 to 1971 in his birthplace Pihtipudas

In the election on March 7th and 8th, 1954 , he was elected to the Landbund as a member of the Reichstag and initially represented the constituency of Vaasa until February 19, 1962 . He was then re-elected to the Reichstag in the elections on February 4 and 5, 1962 in the constituency of Central Finland , to which he was a member until May 31, 1971. On July 15, 1970 he was appointed Minister of the Interior of Finland (Sisäasiainministeri) in the Karjalainen II cabinet and held this ministerial post until May 27, 1971.

After leaving the government and the Reichstag, he succeeded Eino Palovesi as governor of the province of Central Finland in 1971 and held this post until his death on August 11, 1976, after which he was replaced by Kauko Sipponen . Jämsén was married to Elä Paula Pakkala since 1955.

Web link

• Entry on the homepage of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Finland: Key Ministries (rulers.org)
2. ↑ Finland: Provinces