Aleksei Müürisepp

Aleksei Müürisepp (* February 4 ^{. Jul} / 17th February 1902 ^greg. On Saaremaa , Governorate of Livonia , Russian Empire ; † 7. October 1970 in Tartu , Estonian SSR , Soviet Union ) was a communist Estonian politicians.

Early years

Aleksei Müürisepp ( Russian Алексей Александрович Мюрисепп ) was born in 1902 as the son of a sailor on what is now the Estonian island of Saaremaa, which was part of the Russian Empire at the time. In 1908 he moved to Siberia with his parents . From 1917 to 1924 he worked as an apprentice to a blacksmith, then as a seaman and electrician in the Russian Yenisei fleet. From 1924 to 1926 he served in the Red Army . From 1926 to 1931 Müürisepp was an employee of the Soviet state union. In 1937 he graduated from the Electro-Mechanical Institute for Railway Construction in Tomsk . He then worked in the state railway administration in Ordzhonikidze and Krasnoyarsk .

Politician

With the Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1940, Müürisepp returned to his homeland. In 1941 he became head of the electrification department of the Estonian Railway Administration. He spent the war period from 1941 to 1944 in Russia before returning to the Estonian SSR . There he quickly took over important posts within the Communist Party of Estonia (EK (b) P). In 1948 he became secretary of the central committee of the EK (b) P. From 1949 to 1951 he was deputy central committee chairman.

From 1951 to 1961, Müürisepp was the successor to Arnold Veimer, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Estonian SSR (Eesti NSV Ministrite Nõukogu esimees) and thus head of government of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. In March 1955 he was elected a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. At the same time he held the post of Foreign Minister of the Estonian SSR from 1955, which he only transferred to Arnold Green in 1962 .

From October 1961 until his death in the autumn of 1970, Müürisepp held the largely ceremonial office of chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR (Eesti NSV Ülemnõukogu Presiidiumi esimees). In terms of protocol, he was at first place in the Soviet hierarchy of the Estonian SSR.

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short résumé (russian)

Remarks

↑ Aleksei Müürisepp , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 11/1971 of March 8, 1971, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

personal data
SURNAME	Müürisepp, Aleksei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Estonian communist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 17, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saaremaa , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	October 7, 1970
Place of death	Tartu , Estonian SSR , Soviet Union

[1] Aleksei Müürisepp , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 11/1971 of March 8, 1971, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)