Arvi Ahmavaara

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Arvi Ahmavaara

Kaarlo Arvi Eliel Ahmavaara (birth name: Kaarlo Arvi Eliel Aulin ; * August 13, 1886 in Ii ; † October 25, 1957 in Oulu ) was a Finnish politician of the National Collection Party (Kok), who among other things between 1929 and 1930 and again 1945 to 1954 member of the Reichstag and between 1937 and 1938 Minister of Justice.

Life

Ahmavaari, son of the bank director and member of the Reichstag, Pekka Ahmavaara and his first wife Anna Maria Mustonen, dropped the previous surname Aulin in 1906, like his father, and took on the new surname Ahmavaara. In 1906 he began to study philosophy , which he graduated in 1910 as Filosofian kandidaatti . A subsequent postgraduate study of law at the University of Helsinki he completed in 1912 with the legal exam (Oikeustutkinto) and then worked as a lawyer in Rovaniemi between 1912 and 1917 . In the meantime, he obtained a master's degree in law (Varatuomari) in 1915 and was a judge at the Court of Kemi between 1917 and 1918 , before he ran a law firm in Oulu between 1919 and 1934 .

In the 1929 elections he was elected for the first time as a member of the Reichstag as a candidate for the National Collection Party (Kansallinen Kokoomus) and represented the constituency of Oulu North from August 1, 1929 to October 20, 1930 . In 1934 he was appointed judge at the court responsible for the province of Lapland (Tuomiokunta) in Kittilä and worked there until 1938. In the meantime, he took over the post of Justice Minister (Oikeusministeri) in the third cabinet of Prime Minister Aimo Kaarlo Cajander on March 18, 1937 , which he held until he was replaced by AE Rautavaara on January 11, 1938. He was then between 1938 and 1942, first as a judge for the judicial district of Piippola at the court of Haapajärvi and then from 1942 to 1956 judge at the court in Oulu, where he was responsible for the judicial district Ii .

In the 1945 election , Ahmavaara was re-elected as a member of the Reichstag for the Kok, in which he now represented the interests of the Oulu constituency from April 6, 1945 to March 28, 1945 . During this time he acted as chairman of the Reichstag committee for constitutional law between 1945 and 1953 and was a member of the body for the election of the President of the Republic of Finland in 1950 and 1956 .

Ahmavaara had been married to Jenni Margareta Päkkilä since 1912. From this marriage the lawyer and ministry officials Eero Ahmavaara, who was married to the journalist Anna-Liisa Rekola went, and Yrjö Ahmavaara out that as a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Turku as well as a professor of mathematics and social science methodology at the University of Tampere taught and in 1979 became a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Finland: Key Ministries (rulers.org)