Name Allan Serlachius | Role Politician | |
Died December 10, 1935, Helsinki, Finland | ||
Carl Allan Serlachius (until 1935 Särkilahti; 21 March 1870 Porvoo – 10 December 1935, Helsinki) was a Finnish lawyer, a professor and a politician - a State Legislature,senator and MP.
Serlachius gained a Ph.D. from both degrees at the University of Helsinki in 1898 and later served as Professor of Criminal Law and Legal History at the University of Helsinki from 1902 until 1917.
In this capacity, he participated as a member from the clergy to the last Diet of Finland between 1904-1906. Serlachius was the Vice-Principal of the University of Helsinki between 1915-1917.
He was also the member of the Helsinki City Council between 1912-1914 and the Finnish Party MP during the Second Russification period of 1914-1917.
After the collapse of the fall of the Czarist regime, Professor Allan Serlachius, representing the Finnish Party, was elected as Senator to the Oskari Tokoi's Cabinet and its successor cabinet of E. N. Setälä as the Head of the Civilian Bureau until 27 November 1917.
Since then, former Senator Serlachius acted as a chargé d'affaires of the newly independent Republic of Finland and later as Special Envoy and Full Minister to Oslo, Norway bewteeen 1918-19. Serlachius was a member of the Supreme Court, as Legal Counselor between 1925-1935.