Onni Hiltunen

Onni Hiltunen

Onni Alfred Hiltunen (born November 26, 1895 in Jyväskylä , † June 8, 1971 in Varkaus ) was a Finnish politician of the Social Democratic Party of Finland .

career

Onni Hiltunen was born in Jyväskylä in central Finland as the son of Tekla Eufemia Hagman and the railway worker Juho Taavi Hiltunen. Onni Hiltunen also worked initially for the railway, later as a shopkeeper and from 1931 to 1946 for a social democratic newspaper in Varkaus . Since 1930 he was a member of the Finnish Parliament for the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) , to which he was to belong until 1962. With the end of the Continuation War in Finland in 1944, Hiltunen became one of the country's leading social democrats. He was elected party chairman, where he was considered a compromise candidate between the two wings of the party around Emil Skog and Karl-August Fagerholm . and now held various ministerial posts. In 1944, from 1948 to 1950 and again in 1951, he was finance minister in various cabinets. He also held deputy posts in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and in the Ministry of Finance, Social Affairs and Welfare. In 1946 Emil Skog was elected to succeed him as party leader of the SDP. At the end of the 1950s he held the post of Trade and Industry Minister in the Fagerholm III cabinet and was also Deputy Prime Minister for a month.

From 1951 to 1961 he was President of Kela , the Finnish Social Insurance Agency.

Web links

• Onni Hiltunen on eduskunta.fi

predecessor	Office	successor
0 Kaarlo Harvala	Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1944 to 1946	0 Emil Skog
0 Väinö Tanner Ralf Törngren Vieno Sukselainen	Minister of Finance of the Republic of Finland 1944 1948 to 1950 1951	0 Johan Helo Vieno Sukselainen Viljo Rantala
0 Lauri Kivekäs	Minister of Trade and Industry of the Republic of Finland 1958-1959	0 Ahti Karjalainen
0 Johannes Virolainen	Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Finland 1958-1959	0 Ralf Törngren