Arturs Alberings

Arturs Alberings (born December 26, 1876 ^July / January 7,  1877 ^greg. In Rūjiena ; † April 26, 1934 ) was a Latvian politician and Prime Minister of the Latvian Farmers' Union ( Latvijas Zemnieku Savienība ).

Life

Studies, professional career and member of parliament

After attending school, Alberings studied agricultural science , which he graduated with a licentiate in 1906 . He was then director of an agricultural school in Russia for a few years before becoming director of the Central Agricultural Office in Riga in 1910 . He later became one of the founders of the Fraternitas Rusticana student association at the University of Latvia .

Alberings began his political career in 1918 as a member of the Latvian People's Council , which declared Latvia's independence on November 18, 1918 . There he represented the interests of the Latvian Farmers' Union ( Latvijas Zemnieku Savienība ). Subsequently, he was first elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly in April 1920 and for the first time in October 1922 in the Parliament ( Saeima ), of which he was a member until October 1931.

Prime Minister from 1926 and Minister

On May 7, 1926, he succeeded Kārlis Ulmanis as Prime Minister , although he had no previous government experience. In his cabinet, which was in office until December 18, 1926, he also took over the office of finance minister on September 10, 1926 . After a little over seven months' reign, he was replaced by Marģers Skujenieks , the first social democratic prime minister in Latvia.

On December 1, 1928 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture by Hugo Celmiņš and remained in this office until March 5, 1930. The office of Minister of Agriculture, he then took over again from March 27 to December 5, 1931 in Ulmani's sixth cabinet.

He then largely withdrew from politics.

Web links

• Biographical information in rulers.org
• Homepage of the Government of Latvia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of the Rujen community (Latvian: Rūjiena)
2. ↑ Homepage of the Fraternitas Rusticana ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2010 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.  
3. ↑ The Saeima and its MPs ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2008 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. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Kārlis Ulmanis	Prime Minister of Latvia May 7, 1926 - December 18, 1926	Marģers Skujenieks