Kalle Suosalo, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Kalle Suosalo

Finnish politician

Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1869

Date of Death: 02-Mar-1918

Profession: politician

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Kalle Suosalo

  • Karl (Kalle) Aleksander Suosalo (9 February 1869, in Messukylä - 2 March 1918, in Jakobstad; original surname Johansson) was a Finnish baker and politician.
  • He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1916 to 1917, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP).
  • When the Finnish Civil War broke out on 27 January 1918, Suosalo was living in Jakobstad, where the White side established control in the first days of the war.
  • Suosalo had not taken part in any actual hostilities, but he was arrested on 15 February as a supporter of the Red side.
  • He was sentenced to death in a drumhead court-martial and shot in Jakobstad on 2 March 1918 together with six other men, accused of having taken part in an alleged plot to blow up the Jakobstad Artillery School.
  • Kalle Suosalo was the father of MP Vilho Suosalo and the great grandfather of actor Martti Suosalo.

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