Lauri Letonmäki

Lauri Aukusti Letonmäki was a Finnish journalist, teacher, and politician. Born in Tampere, he was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1914 to 1916. In 1918, during the Finnish Civil War, Letonmäki was Commissioner for Justice in the Finnish People's Delegation, the government of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic. After the Red side lost the war, Letonmäki fled to Soviet Russia, where he was among the founders of the Communist Party of Finland. He committed suicide by hanging in 1935.