# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sulo-suorttanen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:02:13.059Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sulo-suorttanen"
name: "Sulo Suorttanen"
slug: "sulo-suorttanen"
description: "Sulo Elias Suorttanen was a Finnish lawyer, civil servant and politician. He served as Minister of Defence and at the same time Deputy Minister of the Interior from 27 May 1966 to 14 May 1970. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1962 to 1970 and again from 1972 to 1975, representing the Agrarian League. He was a graduate of the University of Helsinki. During the Second World War Suorttanen served Nazi Germany in the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS as an SS-Untersturmführer."
tagline: "Finnish politician (1921-2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sulo_Suorttanen_in_1970.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1921-02-13"
deathDate: "2005-09-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.67
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.136753333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulo_Suorttanen"
    title: "Sulo Suorttanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "سولو سورتانين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulo_Suorttanen"
    title: "Sulo Suorttanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulo_Suorttanen"
    title: "Sulo Suorttanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulo_Suorttanen"
    title: "Sulo Suorttanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulo_Suorttanen"
    title: "Sulo Suorttanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulo_Suorttanen"
    title: "Sulo Suorttanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5479092"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump