Kalle Könkkölä, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Finnish politician
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Place of Birth: Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
About Kalle Könkkölä
- Kalle Kustaa Topias Könkkölä (16 January 1950 – 11 September 2018) was a Finnish politician and human rights activist.
- He was one of the two first Green members of the Finnish Parliament, from 1983 to 1987, even before the Green League became a political party.
- He was the first chairperson of the Green League and the first Finnish MP with a disability. Könkkölä was born in Helsinki, and was physically disabled from birth.
- He was the executive director of the Threshold Association, a cross-disability organization which campaigns for the basic and human rights of persons with disabilities, including accessibility.
- He was married to architect Maija Könkkölä from 1976 until her death in 2012. Könkkölä died of pneumonia on 11 September 2018, at the age of 68.
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