Paavo Hynninen

Paavo Juho Hynninen (born May 31, 1883 in Joroinen , † May 18, 1960 in Helsinki ) was a non-party Finnish politician and diplomat .

Life

Paavo Juho Hynninen, who came from a farming family, graduated from the University of Helsingfors after attending school in Kuopio . He was then between 1909 and 1915 a teacher of economic and commercial geography at the commercial school and at the same time from 1910 to 1911 teacher at the agricultural school in Helsingfors . He was also chairman of the student union in 1913 and curator of the Finnish-speaking student organization Savolainen osakunta (SavO) between 1913 and 1916 . In 1915 he ended his teaching career and was then editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper from 1915 to 1917 Uusi Suometar . During the First World War he was a member of the Constitutional Party and represented it in the Active Committee (Aktiivinen komitea) until he was replaced by Eino Suolahti . Between 1916 and 1918 he was managing director of the printing company of the Finnish Literature Society SKS (Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura) and from 1917 to 1922 managing director of Luottopankki Oy .

In 1922, Hynninen entered the diplomatic service and was initially consul general in Saint Petersburg between 1922 and 1926 and then consul general in The Hague from 1926 to 1928 . He then acted as the successor to Gustaf Idman between 1928 and his replacement by Eduard Palin in 1933 as ambassador to Latvia and as such was at the same time accredited as ambassador to Lithuania . He then replaced Aarne Artur Wuorimaa as ambassador to Estonia in 1933 and remained in this post until 1940, when Jaakko Kaurinkoski succeeded him. In October 1942 he became Consul General in Gothenburg and then in 1943 Chancellor of the Diplomatic Service as the successor to Aaro Pakaslahti , who became ambassador to the Vichy regime . In 1946 he succeeded Paavo Pajula as ambassador to Denmark and held this office until he was replaced by Päivö Tarjanne in 1953.

On November 29, 1957, Paavo Hynninen was appointed Foreign Minister (Ulkoasiainministeri) to the Fieandt cabinet , and from April 26 to August 29, 1958, he also held this office in the Kuuskoski cabinet . He resigned on August 29, 1958, one day before the outbreak of the night frost crisis (yöpakkaskriisi) .

Web links

Entry in Valtioneuvosto
Entry in Kansallisbiografia
Entry in Prabook
Entry in Rulers

Individual evidence

↑ Fieandt's cabinet
↑ Kuuskoski Cabinet
↑ Finland: Key Ministries in Rulers
↑ The night frost crisis was a political crisis in Soviet-Finnish relations in the autumn of 1958. It arose from the dissatisfaction of the Soviets with Finnish domestic politics and, in particular, with the composition of the third government that was to be formed under Prime Minister Karl-August Fagerholm . As a result of the crisis, the Soviet Union withdrew its ambassador from Helsinki and put pressure on the Finnish government to resign. The crisis got its name from Nikita Sergejewitsch Khrushchev , who said that relations between the countries were exposed to a "night frost".

personal data
SURNAME	Hynninen, Paavo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hynninen, Paavo Juho (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Finnish politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	May 31, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Joroinen
DATE OF DEATH	May 18, 1960
Place of death	Helsinki

[1] Fieandt's cabinet

[2] Kuuskoski Cabinet

[3] Finland: Key Ministries in Rulers

[4] The night frost crisis was a political crisis in Soviet-Finnish relations in the autumn of 1958. It arose from the dissatisfaction of the Soviets with Finnish domestic politics and, in particular, with the composition of the third government that was to be formed under Prime Minister Karl-August Fagerholm . As a result of the crisis, the Soviet Union withdrew its ambassador from Helsinki and put pressure on the Finnish government to resign. The crisis got its name from Nikita Sergejewitsch Khrushchev , who said that relations between the countries were exposed to a "night frost".