Arnold Veimer

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Arnold Veimer ( Russian Арнольд Тынувич Веймер ; born June 7 . Jul / 20th June  1903 greg. In Tallinn , † 3. March 1977 ) was a communist Estonian politicians and economists .

Life

Arnold Veimer attended school in Vahastu (today Kaiu rural community , Rapla County ). In 1922 he joined the Estonian Communist Party , which was then banned . In November 1924 Veimer was sentenced to life-long forced labor in the so-called Trial of 149 for illegal communist activities . It was not until 1938 that he was released from prison as part of an amnesty by the government under President Konstantin Päts .

With the Soviet occupation of the Republic of Estonia in the summer of 1940, Veimer became one of the leading communist politicians. After the Moscow-controlled mock election of July 1940, Veimer was from July 21 to August 25, 1940 President of the Stalin puppet parliament . On July 21, 1940, Parliament unanimously renamed the Republic of Estonia the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic ( RT 1940, 74, 733). Two days later it asked to join the Soviet Union as a Union republic. This request was granted on August 6, 1940.

From 1940 to 1942 Arnold Veimer was People's Commissar (Minister) for Light Industry of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic . In 1941 he fled the German occupation of Estonia into the interior of the Soviet Union. From 1942 to 1944 he was Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Estonian SSR. In 1944 he returned to Estonia with the Red Army .

From 1944 to 1951 Veimer was chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Estonian SSR and thus head of government. During his tenure he had the so-called " March deportations " carried out. On March 25, 1949, around 20,000 Estonians who were allegedly critical of the regime were deported to Siberia , the majority of them women and children.

In 1951 Veimer was replaced as head of government by Aleksei Müürisepp . In 1951/52 Veimer was director of the Economic Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR .

From 1955 to 1968 Veimer was Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Estonian SSR. From 1957 to 1965 he was also chairman of the National Economic Council ( Sownarchos ) of Estonia.

From 1968 to 1973 Veimer was President of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. In 1970 he received the title of "Honored Scientist of the Estonian SSR" and in 1973 the award " Hero of Socialist Labor ".

Arnold Veimer was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1941 to 1954 and from 1958 to 1966 . He was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR from 1940 to 1955 and from 1967 until his death in 1977 .

Research ship

In 1984 the research ship of the Thermo- and Electrophysical Institute was named after Arnold Veimer. With the regaining of Estonian independence, the ship was renamed Livonia and later sold to the Swedish Navy .

Private life

Arnold Veimer was married to Nadežda Tihhanova-Veimer. She died a year after her husband. The couple is buried in the forest cemetery ( metsakalmistu ) of the Estonian capital.

literature

  • Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 594

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Until 1946 "Council of People's Commissars of the Estonian SSR" ( Eesti NSV Rahvakomissaride Nõukogu )
personal data
SURNAME Veimer, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION communist head of government of Estonia
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallinn
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1977
Place of death Tallinn