Helena Elisabet Brander (5 July 1872 - 31 December 1953) was a
Finnish teacher of handicraft, school director and politician. She was a member of the
Parliament of Finland
The Parliament of Finland ( ; ) is the Unicameralism, unicameral and Parliamentary sovereignty, supreme legislature of Finland, founded on 9 May 1906. In accordance with the Constitution of Finland, sovereignty belongs to the people, and that ...
, representing the
Young Finnish Party
The Young Finnish Party or Constitutional-Fennoman Party ( or ) was a liberal and nationalist political party in the Grand Duchy of Finland. It began as an upper-class reformist movement during the 1870s and formed as a political party in 1894.
...
from May to December 1918 and the
National Progressive Party from December 1918 to March 1919. She was born in
Kitee
Kitee (; ) is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the North Karelia region, about south of Joensuu and about northeast of Lappeenranta. The municipality has a population of () ...
, the younger sister of
Augusta Laine and
Uuno Brander and the elder sister of
Akseli Brander.
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1872 births
1953 deaths
People from Kitee
People from Kuopio Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
Young Finnish Party politicians
National Progressive Party (Finland) politicians
Members of the Parliament of Finland (1917–1919)
Finnish schoolteachers
20th-century Finnish women politicians
Women members of the Parliament of Finland
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