Aleksander Hellat

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Aleksander Hellat (born August 8 jul. / 20th August  1881 greg. In Tartu , Governorate of Livonia ; † 28. November 1943 in the Kemerovo Oblast , Soviet Union ) was an Estonian lawyer and diplomat. He was Foreign Minister of the Republic of Estonia in 1922/23 and 1927 .

education

Aleksander Hellat went to school in Tartu from 1890 to 1896 and in Saint Petersburg from 1896 to 1900 . From 1900 to 1903 he studied at the Academy of War Medicine in Saint Petersburg and from 1903 to 1909 law at the Petersburg University .

jurist

From 1909 to 1914 Aleksander Hellat was assistant to the lawyer and later Estonian head of state, Jüri Jaakson . 1914/15 Hellat was a licensed attorney in Riga , 1915/16 in Narva and 1916–1918 in Tallinn .

After the February Revolution of 1917 , Hellat Hellat was elected head of the Tallinn Militia . In 1918 he was briefly mayor of Tallinn. He joined the Estonian Social Democratic Labor Party ( Eesti Sotsiaaldemokraatlik Tööliste Party ).

In 1919 Hellat was a public prosecutor at the Estonian State Court . From November 1919 to July 1920 Hellat held the office of Minister of the Interior of the newly founded Republic of Estonia in the cabinet of the head of state and government Jaan Tõnisson .

diplomacy

Then Aleksander Hellat devoted himself to diplomacy. From 1920 to 1922 he was the Estonian envoy to Latvia . In 1921/22 he was also double accredited as the Estonian diplomatic representative for Poland , Romania , Hungary and Greece , based in Warsaw . In 1922 the Estonian government sent him as a delegate to the League of Nations .

From November 29, 1922 to August 2, 1923, Aleksander Hellat was in the cabinet and Juhan Kukk was Foreign Minister of the Republic of Estonia.

He then served as Estonian envoy in Finland from 1923 to 1931. From 1925 to 1927 he was also accredited as envoy to Hungary with his office in Helsinki .

From 11 November to 9 December 1927 the now non-party Hellat in held Cabinet of Jaan Teemant briefly again the office of the Estonian foreign minister took over.

He then returned to the envoy post in Helsinki until 1931. From 1931 to 1933 Hellat was an advisor to the Estonian Foreign Minister in the Estonian Foreign Ministry in Tallinn.

Constitutional judge

From 1933 to 1940 Hellat was a judge at the Estonian State Court ( Riigikohus ).

deportation

After the occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union Aleksander Hellat was arrested on 24 September 1940 and the interior of Russia deported . On January 8, 1941, he was sentenced to death, but then “pardoned” to ten years in prison. He died in the Gulag in 1943 .

family

Aleksander Hellat was married to Ida-Marie Hellat, née Tofer (1880–1939). The couple had four children: Helene (1904–1944), Aleksander (1913), Liidia (1915–1944?) And Toomas (1920–1987). Hellat's brother was the Tallinn city architect Georg Hellat (1870–1943).

literature

  • Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 85