Konstantin Lindqvist

Konstantin (Konsta) Evert Lindqvist (former ''Kraft'') (26 December 1877, in Kymi − 31 August 1920, in

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) was a locomotive driver and member of the

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party and a delegate for transport in the

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the government of the

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during the

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period. After the war Lindqvist fled to Russia where he was killed two years later by members of the internal opposition of the SKP. Lindqvist worked in the

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as a locomotive engineer, driving in

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from 1908–1909 and in

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from 1910–1918. Lindqvist was a member of the

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from July to October 1917 from the Kuopio western constituency. Lindqvist became a member of parliament when the MP Otto Piisinen became ill and left Parliament. Lindqvist was also district secretary of the Kajaani social democratic group and chairman of the Finnish Locomotive Drivers Union from 1917 to 1918. After the Finnish civil war Lindqvist fled to Russia where he became a member of the Communist Party's industrial committee and was a member of the party's military organization. Lindqvist was shot on 31 August 1920 in Petrograd during the

Kuusinen Club Incident 300px, The Kuusinen Club was located in Kamenno-ostrovski prospekt 26–28, in Saint Petersburg The Kuusinen Club Incident () was the murder of eight members of the Finnish Communist Party in the Kuusinen Club (their Petrograd office), on 31 Aug ...

. He was buried at the

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on the

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in Saint Petersburg. Lindqvist was married from 1903 to Anna Siviä Backman. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindqvist, Konsta 1877 births 1920 deaths People from Kotka People from Viipuri Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Social Democratic Party of Finland politicians Communist Party of Finland politicians Members of the Parliament of Finland (1916–1917) Finnish trade union leaders People of the Finnish Civil War (Red side) Finnish murder victims Finnish people murdered abroad People murdered in the Soviet Union Burials on the Field of Mars (Saint Petersburg)