1. Toivo Johannes Horelli was a Finnish politician of the National Coalition Party.
16 Facts About Toivo Horelli
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Toivo Horelli was born in the Western Finnish municipality of Kokemaki to the family of Johan Fredrik Maki-Toivo Horelli and Amanda Giers.
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Toivo Horelli's father was an uneducated farmer who represented the estate of peasants in the Diet of Finland.
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Toivo Horelli went to school in Pori graduating from the Pori Lyceum in 1907.
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Toivo Horelli entered the University of Helsinki and earned the degree of Master of Laws in 1917.
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Toivo Horelli was elected to the parliament in the 1933 election.
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Toivo Horelli became the Minister of the Interior in March 1943.
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The German-minded Toivo Horelli couldn't hold his post in the new cabinet as its main task was to make peace with the Soviet Union.
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Toivo Horelli was now elected as the Second deputy speaker of the Parliament.
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Toivo Horelli only appeared in the court as a witness when Anthoni was put on trial for misconduct.
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Toivo Horelli refused to tell on whose initiative the Jews were deported, saying he would only answer the question in the State court.
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Toivo Horelli never admitted the deportation of the Jews was based on their ethnicity.
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Toivo Horelli worked as a bank director in Jyvaskyla until his retirement in 1951.
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Toivo Horelli spent his last years in Tampere and died in June 1975 at the age of 86.
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Toivo Horelli is buried to a family grave in the Koomankangas Cemetery in Kokemaki.
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Toivo Horelli's brothers were the professor Vaino Horelli and the physician Edvard Johan Horelli who was interested in eugenics.