Christian Kaarna

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Grave of the Kaarna family in the Siselinna Cemetery ( Siselinna kalmistu ) in Tallinn

Christian Kaarna (also Kristjan Kaarna; * 8 October July / 20 October  1882 greg. On the farm Kitse Talu , village Atra , rural community Palupera , Livonia governorate ; †  January 1, 1943 in Karaganda , Soviet Union ) was an Estonian journalist and Politician.

journalism

Christian Kaarna was born as the son of the farmer Hendrik Kaarna in the south of what is now Estonia . He attended the elementary school in Kirepi and the parish school in Kavilda . Kaarna studied at the teachers' college in Tartu, Livonia , until 1898 .

1904/05 he was the municipality clerk of Kodijärve before he worked as a journalist. 1905/06 Kaarna worked for the Estonian newspapers Vabadus in Tartu and Sõnumed and Virulane in Tallinn . From 1909 to 1916 he worked for Meie elu in Narva .

In 1916/17 Kaarna took part in the tsarist army in the First World War.

politics

With the proclamation of the independence of the Republic of Estonia in 1918, Kaarna took over leading political posts in his country. From 1918 to 1920 he was Commissioner of the Provisional Government in the northeast of the country. Kaarna joined the Social Democratic Estonian Labor Party ( Eesti Tööerakond ) around its chairman Otto Strandman .

Kaarna belonged to the first three terms of the democratically elected Estonian Parliament ( Riigikogu ) in the interwar period .

He was a minister in the Estonian government five times:

cabinet Department Term of office Political party   
Päts I Minister of Labor and (Executive) Minister of Social Affairs    December 16, 1921-20 October 1922    ETE   
Kukk I. Labor and Social Affairs Minister 11/21/1922-08-02, 1923 ETE
Akel I Labor and Social Affairs Minister March 26, 1924– December 16, 1924 ETE
Jaakson I Labor and Social Affairs Minister December 16, 1924– December 15, 1925 ETE
Teemant I    Labor and Social Affairs Minister December 15, 1925– July 23, 1926 ETE

From 1928 to 1940 Kaarna was director of the Estonian Central Bank ( Eesti Pank ). All of the Estonian kroon banknotes in the interwar period bore his signature.

Kaarna was also on the boards of Estonian private banks and was chairman of the Estonian Society of Narva ( Narva Eesti Selts ). He was a member of the board of the Estonian Academy of Sciences .

With the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Christian Kaarna was arrested on September 18, 1940. In March 1941 he was sentenced to eight years in a camp. Kaarna died according to official information on New Year's Day 1943 in a gulag in Karaganda.

Private life

Christian Kaarna was married to Klaara Mathiesen (1889–1947) from 1905.

literature

  • Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 125

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.palupera.ee/talude_ajalugu/kitse-talu.pdf
  2. ↑ http://www.valgark.ee/isik/index.php?id=109
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 11, 2012 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.okupatsioon.ee
personal data
SURNAME Kaarna, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaarna, Kristjan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian journalist and politician, member of the Riigikogu
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Kitse talu farm, Atra village , Palupera rural community , Livonia Governorate
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1943
Place of death Karagandy , Soviet Union