Kaarlo Hillilä
Kaarlo Henrik Hillilä (born May 27, 1902 in Oulu , † May 14, 1965 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish politician of the Landbund ML (Maalaisliitto) , who among other things was the first governor of the province of Lapland from 1938 to 1946 and Finland's interior minister between 1944 and 1945 was.
Life
Hillilä took part in the Finnish Civil War of 1918 with Aaro Pakaslahti at the age of 15 and witnessed the conquest of Oulu on February 3, 1918. In 1919 he was a member of the Volunteer Regiment (Pohjan Pojat) commanded by Hans Kalm and participated in the Estonian War of Independence and as such experienced the Battle of Paju on January 31, 1919 and the conquest of Walk . Subsequently, he fought in the Finnish Eastern Wars, for example at Aunus . He then continued his school attendance at Suomalaisen Yhteiskoulun Lukio in Oulu and then began studying law at the University of Helsinki . There he joined the academic association PPO (Pohjois-Pohjalainen Osakunta) and got to know the later Prime Minister and President Urho Kekkonen . He was also a member of the elite nationalist Finno-Ugric organization AKS (Akateeminen Karjala-Seura) and worked for the state police ( Valtiollinen poliisi ) . In 1926 he completed his studies with a bachelor's degree and, after completing his training, took the assessor examination (Varatuomari) in 1929 . He then became an employee in the municipal administration of Rovaniemi .
In the 1937 presidential election he was a member of the electoral committee and supported the candidacy of Kyösti Kallio . In 1938 he became the first governor of the province of Lapland , which had previously been removed from the previous province of Oulu on January 1, 1938 . He held the post of governor until he was replaced by Uuno Hannula in 1946, who had held the post on a provisional basis since 1944. In the presidential elections in 1940 and 1943 , he supported Risto Ryti's candidacy as a member of the electoral committee .
Hillilä was appointed Minister of the Interior (Sisäasiainministeri) to the Hackzell cabinet on August 8, 1944 and held this ministerial office from September 21 to November 17, 1944 in the subsequent Urho Castrén cabinet and between November 17, 1944 and April 17, 1945 in the Paasikivi II cabinet . This term of office was shaped by the events of World War II . On September 19, 1944, Finland signed a separate armistice with the Soviet Union . In 1944/1945 the Lapland War followed against troops of the Wehrmacht in order to force them to withdraw from northern Finland. In addition, in 1944 the previously banned Communist Party of Finland SKP (Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue) , founded in 1918, was legalized . In the Paasikivi III cabinet he held the office of Minister for Public Welfare (Kansanhuoltoministeri) from April 17, 1945 to March 26, 1946 . At the same time he was both Deputy Minister for Social Affairs (Ministeri sosiaaliministeriössä) and Deputy Minister for Transport and Public Works (Ministeri kulkulaitosten ja ybaren töiden ministeriössä) in this cabinet between November 22, 1945 and March 26, 1946 .
After leaving the government, Hillilä was director general of the Helsinki Social Insurance Institution between 1946 and 1954. After he was initially dismissed there on October 14, 1954, at the urging of the now President Urho Kekkonen, he took this office again in 1958 and held it until his death in 1965.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Finland: Provinces (rulers.org)
- ↑ Finland: Key Ministries (rulers.org)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hillilä, Kaarlo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hillilä, Kaarlo Henrik (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish politician, minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oulu |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1965 |
| Place of death | Helsinki |