Taavetti Lukkarinen
Taavetti Lukkarinen (8 November 1884 in Nilsiä – 2 October 1916 in Oulu) was a former Kemi Oy's foreman from Keminmaa, Finland, who was sentenced to death for treason after helping German prisoners of war who had fled the Kirov Railway construction site via Finnish Lapland to Sweden. He was not an actual recruiter of the Jäger Movement.
Lukkarinen was caught helping German prisoners of war on 26 December 1915 at Koivu railway station. He had hidden three of his German sledges that had been lifted on a train in Rovaniemi.[1] Lukkarinen and three Germans were arrested. Lukkarinen managed to escape to Sweden, but returned to Finland with a forged passport due to being homesick. Fearing a train inspection at Oulu railway station, he fell off the train around Kiviniemi station. This was discovered and Lukkarinen was arrested by the Russian gendarmeries in June 1916.[2]
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Further reading
- Vainio, Väinö (1968). Simon kahakka: jääkärien ja santarmien välinen yhteenotto Simon Maaninkajärvellä 1916 (in Finnish). Hämeenlinna: Arvi A. Karisto Osakeyhtiö.
- Wegelius, K.A. (1924). Aseveljet I: Läntinen etappi ja Simon kahakka (in Finnish). Porvoo: WSOY.
References
- ^ Wegelius, p. 46
- ^ Wegelius, p. 47
- ^ Joni Skiftesvik: Hirttopuu säästyi aktivistin muistomerkiksi Yle 15.7.2010.
- ^ Esko Aho: Epäonninen separatisti on yhä arvoitus Kaleva 2.10.2016 (Oulun kaupunki).
- ^ Wegelius, p. 53.
- ^ Tieteen kuvalahti Historia 15/2013, p.74 (in Finnish)
External links
- Joni Skiftesvikin romaanin "Isäni, sankari" päähenkilön esikuva on Taavetti Lukkarinen Archived 14 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)
- Ylkkäri 14/2003 p. 17 The hanging of Taavetti Lukkarinen in 1916. (in Finnish)