Ants Laaneots

Ants Laaneots (2015)

Ants Laaneots (born January 16, 1948 ) is a former Estonian general . He was Commander of the Estonian Armed Forces from 2006 to 2011 and then (until 2014) advisor to Prime Minister Andrus Ansip . He has been a member of the Estonian Parliament since 2015 .

Life

Ants Laaneots was born in Kilingi-Nõmme , a town in the southwest of what was then the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic . In 1949 his family was deported to Siberia, where his mother died in 1952. In 1958 he was allowed to return to Estonia with his uncle and aunt. Until he graduated from school in 1965, Laaneots attended the grammar school in his hometown.

Military career

Promotions

soviet armed forces

• Lieutenant (1970)
• First Lieutenant (1973)
• Captain (1975)
• Major (1979)
• Lieutenant Colonel (1982)
• Colonel (1987)

Estonian Armed Forces

• Colonel (1992)
• Major General (1998)
• Lieutenant General (2008)
• General (2011)

In 1966 he joined the Soviet Army . After completing his officer training in Kharkov , he worked from 1970 in various positions in the tank troops at home and abroad.

After Estonia regained its independence, Laaneots joined the re-established armed forces of his homeland in 1991. There he worked in various management positions over the next few years and attended several military schools in western countries for further training. In 1998 he was promoted to major general. From 2001 to 2006 he was the commander of the Estonian Military Academy. After this activity, he was appointed military commander of the Estonian armed forces as the successor to Tarmo Kõuts . In this position he was promoted to lieutenant general in 2008 and general in 2011.

Activity in politics

At the end of his five-year term, Laaneots became Prime Minister Andrus Ansip's advisor on national defense issues. This activity ended with Ansip's resignation in 2014.

In the 2015 parliamentary election , he ran as a candidate for the Reform Party , which he joined in 2014, and managed to garner almost 6,000 votes. Since then he has been a member of the Estonian Parliament ( Riigikogu ) for this party . In the next election in 2019 , however, he was only able to gain a good 3,000 votes.

Private

Ants Laaneots is married and has two adult children (a son and a daughter). In addition to his mother tongue, he is fluent in English and Russian.

Awards

Ants Laaneots is u. a. Holders of the following important honors:

	Class II of the Order of the Eagle Cross (2000)
	Star Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland (2007)
	Commander 1st Class of the North Star Order (2011)
	Commander Legion of Merit (2012)
	1st class of the Order of the Eagle Cross (2012)

(Source: 101 Biographies - The 13th Riigikogu)

Web links

Commons : Ants Laaneots  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography of Ants Laaneots on the NATO website
• Ants Laaneots on the Estonian Parliament website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Siber võttis Ants Laaneotsalt lapsepõlve . Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved on February 27, 2011.
2. ↑ Postimees online report of March 28, 2014, accessed on January 25, 2015 (Estonian)
3. ↑ Online report of the election commission from March 20, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015 (Estonian)
4. ↑ Online report of the election commission from March 4, 2019, accessed on March 4, 2019 (English)
5. ↑ 101 Biographies - The 13th Riigikogu ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from January 1, 2016 (PDF; 5.5 MB), accessed on June 13, 2016 (English) 

predecessor	Office	successor
Tarmo Kõuts	Kaitseväe juhatajad 2006–2011	Riho Terras