Hanna Karhinen
Finnish politician
Hanna Karhinen (née Johanna Sofia Andelin) (16 June 1878 – 27 September 1938) was a Finnish Social Democratic Party and later Communist Party politician and activist. She served in the Parliament of Finland from 1913 to 1916. During the 1918 Finnish Civil War Karhinen was a member of the Central Workers' Council of Finland and commissioner of interior in the Finnish People's Delegation. She was executed in 1938.
Life
Early years
Karhinen was born 16 June 1878 in Vyborg, now Russia to Johan Fredrik Andelin (1851–1878), a shoemaker born in Joensuu, now Finland, and Johanna Natalia Malmström (1839–1923), a native of Heinola, Finland. Karen's father died just a week before his daughter was born. Not much is known about Karhinen's early years, but she attended elementary and church school in St. Petersburg while learning Russian. In 1899, Karhinen married and moved to Terijoki, Russia.
Activism
Karhinen, who was a housewife, joined the SDP in 1902, and a year later she was elected chairman of the women's section of the Terijoki Workers' Association.
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