Valdemar Liljeström


Valdemar Liljeström was a Finnish trade union activist and politician. He was at first a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland and, after 1959, of the Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders. He served as the chairman of the Metalworkers' Union from 1947 until 1960, as Minister of Social Affairs in Karl-August Fagerholm's first cabinet, Deputy Minister of Public Works in Vieno Johannes Sukselainen's first cabinet, Minister of Social Affairs in Reino Kuuskoski's cabinet and as a Member of Parliament.