Onni Hiltunen

Onni Alfred Hiltunen (* 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, central Finland, the son of Tekla Eufemia Hagman and railway worker Juho Taavi Hiltunen. Onni Hiltunen also started working for the railroad, and later as a shop owner and 1931-1946 for a social democratic newspaper in Varkaus. Since 1930 he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland ( SDP), the Finnish Parliament, to whom he should belong to 1962. With the end of the Continuation War in 1944 in Finland Hiltunen was one of the leading Social Democrats in the country. He was elected party chairman, said he was identified as a compromise candidate between the two party wings to Emil Skog and Karl- August Fagerholm. and now held several ministerial posts. He was, in 1944, from 1948 to 1950 and again in 1951 finance minister in various cabinets. He was also deputy post in the Trade and Industry Ministry, in the financial, social and folk Ministry of Supply. 1946 Emil Skog was elected to succeed him as party leader of the SDP. In the late 1950s he had III held the post of Trade and Industry Minister in the Cabinet Fagerholm and also served as Deputy Prime Minister for a monthly.

From 1951 to 1961 he was president of the Kela Social Insurance Institution of Finland.