Hanna Karhinen

Hanna Karhinen (née Johanna Sofia Andelin) (16 June 1878 – 27 September 1938) was a Finnish Social Democratic Party and later Communist Party politician and activist. She served in the Parliament of Finland from 1913 to 1916. During the 1918 Finnish Civil War Karhinen was a member of the Central Workers' Council of Finland and commissioner of interior in the Finnish People's Delegation. She was executed in 1938.

Activism Karhinen, who was a housewife, joined the SDP in 1902, and a year later she was elected chairman of the women's section of the Terijoki Workers' Association. Karhinen was also a member of the Federal Council of the Social Democratic Women 's Union and assisted in the publication Worker 's Woman. In addition, Karhinen wrote educational booklets for women, in which she presented her modern views on raising children and advised working women to get involved in municipal politics. Karhinen was elected Member of Parliament in the 1913 parliamentary elections and renewed her seat in 1916 but dropped out of parliament in the October 1917 election.

In 1920, on the initiative of Finnish politician Yrjö Sirola, Karhinen was sent to the United States

In the Soviet Union Karhinen settled in the Soviet Union in 1926 and was active as a state and party functionary in the Karelian ASSR.

In 1936, Karhinen was expelled from NKP membership on charges of links to enemies. The background was apparently Karhinen's correspondence with her daughter, who had moved to Stockholm, Sweden in 1934. Karhinen was arrested in June 1938, during the Great Purge, and charged with being involved in underground counter-revolutionary activities. She was executed on 27 September 1938, on the outskirts of the town called Aunus, Russia.

Karhinen's reputation was restored by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union in 1989.

Family In 1899, Hannah married Tuomas Tuomaanpoika Karhinen (b. 1867), a train police officer from Räisälä. The couple had one daughter, Veera Muberg. The marriage ended in 1913.