Heikki Ritavuori

Finnish government minister and lawyer

Heikki Ritavuori (23 March 1880, Turku – 14 February 1922, Helsinki; name until 1906 Henrik Rydman), was a Finnish lawyer, a politician from the National Progressive Party, a member of the Parliament of Finland and Minister of the Interior.

He was the closest colleague of President K.J.Ståhlberg and was Minister of the Interior in J.H.

Vennola's first and second cabinets from 1919 to 1922 for a total of 526 days.Heikki Ritavuori is a unique figure in Finland's political history because he is not remembered for his life's work, but instead for its end.

Minister Ritavuori was shot dead at the door to his home in Helsinki in February 1922.