Kalle Korhonen | |
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Карл Корхонен | |
Member of the Parliament of Finland | |
In office 4 April 1917 – 25 September 1918 | |
Constituency | Oulu Province South |
Personal details | |
Born | Kaarlo Eeronpoika Korhonen 27 December 1878 Veneheitto, Säräisniemi, Russian Empire |
Died | 11 February 1938 Karhumäki, Soviet Union | (aged 59)
Political party | Social Democratic Party of Finland |
Occupation | Farmer |
Kaarlo (Kaarle) Eeronpoika Korhonen ( Russian: Карл Эрикович Корхонен, romanized: Karl Erikovic Korxonen; 27 December 1878 – 11 February 1938) was a Finnish farmer, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Oulu Province South between April 1917 and September 1918. [1] Korhonen went to Soviet Russia during the Finnish Civil War and was executed there in 1938 during Stalin's Great Purge.
Korhonen was born on 27 [a] December 1878 in Veneheitto in Säräisniemi municipality in central Grand Duchy of Finland. [1] [2] After attending public school, he worked as a wheelwright and a labourer. [2] He was a farmer in Säräisniemi. [1]
Korhonen joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1902 and was chairman of the party's local branch. [2] He was elected to the Parliament of Finland at the 1916 parliamentary election. [3] [4] He was re-elected at the 1917 parliamentary election. [5] [6]
During the Finnish Civil War Korhonen was sent to Petrograd as part of a people's delegation. [2] After the Reds were defeated Korhonen remained in Soviet Russia.
Korhonen was chairman of the Airo commune in Kostroma in the Volga region. [2] He was sent to Karelia in June 1920 where he worked as a raftsman on the Sunu river, as a railway guard in Kemi and in the land affairs department of the Uhtua District (Kalevalsky District) administration. [2] He was a manager of financial affairs at a youth school (1923-1930), a director of the financial department of the Uhtua state farm (1930-1933), school director (1932-1936) and a worker of the Municipal Department of the Uhtua District Executive Committee (1936). [2]
Korhonen was a member of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) from 1918 to 1936. [2] With the onset of Stalin's Great Purge, Korhonen was expelled from the party on 26 November 1935 by the Kalevala district committee. [2] He was imprisoned on 30 November 1937 for counter-revolutionary activities and on 21 January 1938 sentenced to death by shooting. [2] [7] He was executed on 11 February 1938 in the foothills of Karhumäki (Medvezhyegorsk). [2] [7] He was posthumously rehabilitated in September 1988. [2] [7]
Korhonen was married to Hilma (Hilda) and had an adopted daughter, Silvia Thorstensson. [2] [8] Later he married Soviet citizen Anna and lived in Uhtua (Kalevala) in Russian Karelia. [2] They had a son, Taisto. [2]