Onni Hiltunen

Onni Hiltunen
Deputy Prime Minister of Finland
In office 4 December 1958 – 13 January 1959
Prime Minister	Karl-August Fagerholm
Preceded by	Johannes Virolainen
Succeeded by	Ralf Törngren
Minister of Trade and Industry
In office 29 August 1958 – 13 January 1959
Prime Minister	Karl-August Fagerholm
Preceded by	Lauri Kivekäs
Succeeded by	Ahti Karjalainen
Minister of Finance
In office 17 January 1951 – 20 September 1951
Prime Minister	Urho Kekkonen
Preceded by	V. J. Sukselainen
Succeeded by	Viljo Rantala
In office 29 July 1948 – 17 March 1950
Prime Minister	Karl-August Fagerholm
Preceded by	Ralf Törngren
Succeeded by	V. J. Sukselainen
In office 8 August 1944 – 17 November 1944
Prime Minister	Antti Hackzell Urho Castrén
Preceded by	Väinö Tanner
Succeeded by	Johan Helo
Member of the Finnish Parliament
In office 21 October 1930 – 19 February 1962
Constituency	Northern Savonia
Personal details
Born	Onni Alfred Hiitunen (1895-11-26)26 November 1895 Jyväskylä, Finland
Died	8 June 1971(1971-06-08) (aged 75) Varkaus, Finland
Political party	Social Democratic

Onni Alfred Hiltunen (26 November 1895 – 8 June 1971) was a Finnish politician, minister in several cabinets and chairman of the Social Democratic Party.^[1]

Hiltunen was born in Jyväskylä. He worked as railwayman and was later a shopkeeper. He worked at a social democratic paper in Varkaus 1931–1946. Hiltunen was elected to the parliament for terms between 1930 and 1962 first from Northern and later from Southern Savonia electoral district.

Hiltunen was chairman of the Social Democratic Party between 1944 and 1946. He held several ministerial posts, including Minister of Finance 1944, 1948–1950, 1951,^[2] Minister of Trade and Industry^[3] and Deputy Prime Minister 1958–1959, Minister of Finance 1945–1946, 1946–1948.

He was chairman of KELA 1951–1961.

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