Viljami Kalliokoski

Viljami Kalliokoski (born May 15, 1894 in Halsua , † January 20, 1978 in Kokkola ) was a Finnish politician and from 1940 to 1946 chairman of the Landbund .

Life

Viljami Kalliokoski was born in 1894 as the son of farmers Matti Kalliokoski and Leena Kaisa Kalliokoski in Halsua in Central Ostrobothnia in western Finland . Viljami became a farmer himself and practiced this profession until 1964. From 1930 to 1938 he worked for the newspaper Keskipohjanmaa , and from 1945 to 1949 he was managing director of the Pellervo-Seura cooperative .

Kalliokoski was a member of the Finnish Parliament for the Landbund for several decades. He was elected there for the first time in 1922. He stayed in Parliament until 1945. His second term lasted from 1948 to 1962. He was Deputy Minister of Agriculture in the Kallio IV cabinet of his party colleague Kyösti Kallio . He was then Minister of Agriculture in various cabinets from 1940 to 1944 and later from 1954 to 1956.

Within the Landbund, Kalliokoski represented socially radical positions and was one of the staunch critics of the right-wing extremist Lapua movement . He also advocated maintaining Prohibition in Finland, which was ended with the Prohibition referendum in 1931 . After the parliamentary elections in Finland in 1945, he resigned from the position of party chairman after disputes with Urho Kekkonen . His successor was Vieno Sukselainen in 1946 . In the run-up to the 1956 presidential election , Kalliokoski was proposed as a candidate by the Central Ostrobothnia District Association in 1954. In an intra-party vote, however, Kalliokoski was defeated by Urho Kekkonen by 10 to 62 votes.

Web links

• Viljami Kalliokoski on eduskunta.fi

predecessor	Office	successor
0 Pekka Heikkinen Kalle Jutila	Minister of Agriculture of Finland 1940 to 1944 1954 to 1956	0 Eemil Luukka Martti Miettunen
0 Pekka Heikkinen	Chairman of the Landbund from 1940 to 1946	0 Vieno Sukselainen