Eero Rantala

Eero Rantala (5 October 1941–5 February 2019) was a Finnish politician who held several cabinet posts in late 1970s. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland.

Biography Rantala was born in Helsinki on 5 October 1941. He served in the Finnish army with the rank of first lieutenant. Rantala also held the post of the minister of interior in the same cabinet between 2 March 1978 and 26 May 1979. Next he worked in Germany and was involved in the privatization and investment projects of the former East German industrial companies. Rantala was appointed by the Finnish Prime Ministry as an investigator in October 2002 to examine the cooperation between Finland and Germany to promote the European Union's Northern Dimension action program.

Rantala founded the Eero Rantala Fund in 1991 which awards a music prize.