Onni Kustaa Toivonen (18 March 1894 – 12 June 1968) was a

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cooperative organizer and politician, born in

Pori ) , website www.pori.fi Pori (; sv, Björneborg ) is a city and municipality on the west coast of Finland. The city is located some from the Gulf of Bothnia, on the estuary of the Kokemäki River, west of Tampere, north of Turku and north-w ...

. He was a member of the

Social Democratic Party of Finland The Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP, fi, Suomen sosialidemokraattinen puolue ; sv, Finlands socialdemokratiska parti), shortened to the Social Democrats ( fi, link=no, Sosiaalidemokraatit; sv, link=no, Socialdemokrater) and commonly kno ...

(SDP). He served as Minister of People's Service and Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry from 29 August 1948 to 17 March 1950. During the

Finnish Civil War The Finnish Civil War; . Other designations: Brethren War, Citizen War, Class War, Freedom War, Red Rebellion and Revolution, . According to 1,005 interviews done by the newspaper ''Aamulehti'', the most popular names were as follows: Civil W ...

of 1918, Toivonen worked in the administration of the

Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (FSWR), more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a self-proclaimed Finnish socialist state that ruled parts of the country during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. It was outlined on 29 January 1918 by th ...

. For this, he was given a prison sentence of seven years after the defeat of the Red side. However, in 1920, he was pardoned.

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1894 births 1968 deaths People from Pori People from Turku and Pori Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Social Democratic Party of Finland politicians Government ministers of Finland Cooperative organizers People of the Finnish Civil War (Red side) Political prisoners in Finland Finnish people of World War II {{SocialDemocraticPartyFinland-politician-stub