Eeli Erkkilä
Eeli Johannes Erkkilä (born November 21, 1909 in Oulainen ; † April 1, 1963 ibid) was a Finnish politician of the Landbund ML (Maalaisliitto) , who was Finland's interior minister between 1962 and 1963 .
Life
Erkkilä, son of the farmer Heikki Erkkilä and his wife Anna Ylikivelä, attended elementary school and, like his parents, worked as a farmer in his native Oulainen. In the mid-1940s he began his political engagement in the Landbund ML (Maalaisliitto) and was its managing director in the Oulu district between 1947 and 1951 . In the election on July 2 and 3, 1951 , he was elected a member of the Reichstag for the Landbund in the constituency of Oulu , to which he belonged until his death on April 1, 1963.
On January 13, 1959, Erkkilä was appointed Deputy Minister for Social Affairs and Health (Ministeri sosiaali- ja terveysministeriössä) in the Sukselainen II cabinet , to which he was a member until July 13, 1961. In the subsequent Miettunen I cabinet, he held the post of Deputy Minister for Transport and Public Works (Ministeri kulkulaitosten ja ybaren töiden ministeriössä) between July 14, 1961 and February 25, 1962 . In April 1962, he himself was Minister for Transport and Public Works (Kulkulaitosten ja ybaren töiden ministeri) in this cabinet . He then served as Interior Minister (Sisäasiainministeri) in the Karjalainen I cabinet between April 13, 1962 and February 8, 1962 .
Erkkilä had been married to Martta Elisabet Jääskelä since 1938.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Finland: Key Ministries (rulers.org)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Erkkilä, Eeli |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Erkkilä, Eeli Johannes (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish politician, member of the Reichstag and Minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oulainen , Finland |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1963 |
| Place of death | Oulainen , Finland |