Taavetti Lukkarinen

Taavetti Lukkarinen (8 November 1884 in Nilsiä – 2 October 1916 in Oulu) was a former Kemi Oy's foreman from Keminmaa, Finland, who was sentenced to death for treason after helping German prisoners of war who had fled the Kirov Railway construction site via Finnish Lapland to Sweden.

Lukkarinen was caught helping German prisoners of war on 26 December 1915 at Koivu railway station.

The ruling has been accused of the Finnish Governor of the Province of Oulu, Axel Fabian af Enehjelm, who allegedly, under pressure from the Russians, contributed to the fact that a rather insignificant activist was made a warning example by sentencing him to death.

After Finland became independent, Lukkarinen's reputation was restored, his grave was opened and his earthly remains officially buried in Oulu Cemetery in 1917.

[6] Today, Lukkarinen's gallow tree is located next to the current Oulu University of Applied Sciences' Department of Social and Health Care.