Lauri Letonmäki

Lauri Letonmäki
Commissioner for Justice of the Finnish People's Delegation of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic
In office
29 January 1918 – 12 April 1918
Serving with Antti Kiviranta
Commissioner for Maintenance of the Finnish People's Delegation of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic
In office
13 April 1918 – 5 May 1918
Member of the Finnish Parliament
In office
2 February 1914 – 3 April 1917
ConstituencyVaasa Province East
Personal details
Born
Lauri Aukusti Helin

(1886-12-22)December 22, 1886
Tampere, Grand Duchy of Finland
DiedNovember 22, 1935(1935-11-22) (aged 48)
Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR, USSR
Political partySDP (1905-1918)
SKP (1918-1935)
Spouse
(m. 1910)
Children2

Lauri Aukusti Letonmäki (22 December 1886, in Tampere – 20 November 1935) was a Finnish journalist, teacher, and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1914 to 1916. In 1918, during the Finnish Civil War, Letonmäki was Commissioner for Justice in the Finnish People's Delegation, the government of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic. After the Red side lost the war, Letonmäki fled to Soviet Russia, where he was among the founders of the Communist Party of Finland (SKP). He committed suicide in 1935.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ "Lauri Letonmäki". www.eduskunta.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2021-10-13.
  2. ^ "List of former members of the Finnish Parliament punished by the KASNT NKVD in 1937-1938" (in Finnish). 1998-12-02. Archived from the original on 2015-07-25.