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Insurance Institution (SII). He lost this position on 14 October 1954, but Kekkonen soon appointed him to the board of the Institution. Upon appointing Hillilä, Kekkonen forced him to sign an undated resignation letter which Kekkonen deposited in his safe. Hillilä's career finally ended with a scandal regarding the legality of the SII staff's living arrangements in the summer of 1961, though his criminal misconduct conviction was commuted to a "minor misconduct" or "maladministration" in the Supreme Court.
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While he would have had political value in the new post-war conditions, a hard life had taken its toll on Hillilä. He could no longer take active responsibility. He returned to his post as provincial governor of
Lapland from 1946 to 1947 and then moved to Helsinki to serve as director general of the
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in 1929 (indicating completion of a master's degree and a year of court training). That year, he took office as the head of the market town of
Rovaniemi, a position he filled on two separate occasions before his appointment as provincial governor of Lapland. After Kekkonen became the Minister of the
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instead. Thus he took a leave of absence from the provincial governorship which would last until 1946 while he took care of ministerial responsibilities in postwar cabinets. The
Ministry of the Interior was important in transitioning to a state of peace in September. At that point an Allied
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Hillilä was chosen as the first provincial governor of
Finnish Lapland in 1938 when that province was formed. The area, and thus the entirety of Northern Finland, had previously belonged to the
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Supervisory
Commission led by the Soviet Union came to Finland to carry out police affairs through the Ministry of the Interior. The demobilisation of the army, the question of the
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under the pen name "Pekka Peitsi". Hillilä was one of those who alongside
Kekkonen came to the conclusion in November 1942 that Germany, and Finland with it, would lose the war.
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represented the
Germans to the local civilian administration. Hillilä sought to protect Finnish interests under these circumstances. On a flying visit to Lapland in early 1942,
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