About Heikki Hannikainen
Lived 1915 – 1989 (aged 73–74). Heikki Hannikainen was a Finnish diplomat.
Heikki Juhani Hannikainen (1915–1989) was a Finnish diplomat, a master of philosophy. He was the son of journalist Lauri Hannikainen (1889–1921) and Sigrid (Siiri) Maria Hannikainen. He was an ambassador in Peru, Venezuela and Colombia between 1963 and 1967, as Ambassador of Foreign Affairs in 1968–1972 and Ambassador in Madrid from 1972 to 1978.
In 1968, he received a diplomatic title of Specialty and Plenipotentiary Minister.
His daughter was the composer Ann-Elise Hannikainen (14 January 1946 – 19 November 2012).
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Finnish diplomat
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Heikki Hannikainen was born in 1915.
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Heikki Hannikainen died in 1989.
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Heikki Hannikainen was a diplomat.
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Heikki Hannikainen was Finnish.
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