Taisto Tähkämaa Explained

Office:Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
Term Start:26 May 1979
Term End:5 May 1983
Office1:Minister of Defense
Term Start1:15 May 1977
Term End1:25 May 1979
Primeminister1:Kalevi Sorsa
Birth Place:Pargas, Finland
Party:Centre Party
Occupation:Agrologist
Nationality:Finnish

Taisto Tähkämaa (born 1924) is a Finnish Centre Party politician who served at the Parliament and held various cabinet posts, including minister of defense and minister of agriculture and forestry in the 1970s and 1980s.

Biography

Tähkämaa was born in Pargas in 1924. He is an agrologist and agricultural advisor by profession.[1] He is a war veteran and participated in World War II against Soviet Red Army.[2] He was a member of the Centre Party and served as its vice chair between 1980 and 1984. He was elected to the Parliament on 23 March 1970 and served there until 21 March 1991.

Tähkämaa was appointed minister of defense on 15 May 1977 to the second cabinet of Kalevi Sorsa, and his tenure ended on 25 May 1979. Next day he was named as the minister of agriculture and forestry and served in the second cabinet of Mauno Koivisto until 18 February 1982. Tähkämaa continued to hold the same post in the third cabinet of Kalevi Sorsa from 19 February 1982 to 5 May 1983.[3]

Notes and References

  1. News: Juha-Pekka Tikka. Taisto Tähkämaan mukaan Suomen kohtalo on 1 300 kilometrin rajassa itäpuolellamme. fi. 25 July 2022. Verkkouutiset. 23 January 2017.
  2. News: Simo Holopainen. Kolme T-34-panssaria ajoi Ihantalassa kohti Taisto Tähkämaata – pst-mies teki ratkaisun, joka pelasti hänen henkensä. 25 July 2022. Ilta-Sanomat. 25 June 2017. fi.
  3. Web site: Taisto Tähkämaa. Finnish Parliament. 25 July 2022. fi.