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Edwin Linkomies

1894 - 1963

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Edwin Johannes Hildegard Linkomies (22 December 1894 – 9 September 1963, until 1928 Edwin Flinck) was Prime Minister of Finland from March 1943 to August 1944, and one of the seven politicians sentenced to five and a half years in prison as responsible for the Continuation War, on the demand of the Soviet Union. He was paroled in 1948. Linkomies was a prominent fennoman academic, pro-rector (administrative head) of the University of Helsinki 1932 to 1943, rector 1956 to 1962, and the government's Chancellor of the University from 1962 until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Linkomies is the 13,028th most popular politician (up from 13,174th in 2019), the 1,398th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,511th in 2019) and the 362nd most popular Russian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edwin Linkomies ranks 13,028 out of 19,576Before him are Marcus Vinicius, Boiorix, Petrobey Mavromichalis, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, King Shenjing of Zhou, and Florence Green. After him are Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Margherita Maria Farnese, Ernst Trygger, Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, and Eero Mäntyranta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Edwin Linkomies ranks 162Before him are Kurt Blome, Riad Al Solh, Berdi Kerbabayev, John Lennard-Jones, Viorica Ursuleac, and Saken Seifullin. After him are Heinz Hopf, Marietta Blau, Magda Julin, Robert Menzies, Yakov Frenkel, and Alfred Romer. Among people deceased in 1963, Edwin Linkomies ranks 126Before him are Benny Moré, Margaret Murray, Vsevolod Ivanov, Louis Bastien, Erich Ollenhauer, and Lee Wallard. After him are Richard Oswald, Jean Decoux, Aleksandr Gauk, Dick Powell, Thoralf Skolem, and Learco Guerra.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Edwin Linkomies ranks 1,398 out of 3,761Before him are Peter Arshinov (1887), Solomon Lozovsky (1876), Nikolay Novikov (1744), Valeri Tokarev (1952), Olavi Mannonen (1930), and Oleg Gazmanov (1951). After him are Nikolai Karachentsov (1944), Yury Glazkov (1939), Apollon Maykov (1821), Lyudmila Bragina (1943), Alexander Petrov (1799), and Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin (1859).

Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Edwin Linkomies ranks 362Before him are Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov (1786), Fyodor Dan (1871), Elena Mukhina (1960), Grigory Romanov (1923), Igor Strelkov (1970), and Solomon Lozovsky (1876). After him are Igor Sechin (1960), Nikolai Valuev (1973), Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev (1895), Izmail Sreznevsky (1812), Carl Enckell (1876), and Mikhail Katkov (1818).