Hugo Celmiņš

Hugo CELMINS (* October 18 ^jul. / The 30th October  1877 ^greg. In Lubāna ; † the 30th July 1941 in Moscow ) was Latvian politicians of the party Farmers' Union of Latvia and two-time prime minister of his country.

Life

Studies and World War I

Hugo Celmiņš graduated from school from 1899 to 1903 to study economics at the Polytechnic Institute of Riga . In 1900 he joined the student corps Talavija. From 1903 to 1904 he also studied mathematics at the University of Bern . After research trips and study visits to Denmark , Sweden , Germany and Switzerland , he worked as an economist. During the First World War he served as a volunteer in the army.

Minister and Prime Minister from 1924 to 1925

After Latvia gained independence on November 18, 1918, he became a member of the Constituent Assembly (Satversmes sapulce) and then Parliament ( Saeima ), where he represented the interests of the Latvian Farmers' Union . On June 12, 1920 he was appointed to a cabinet for the first time by Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis as Minister of Agriculture . He then held this office until June 18, 1921. On October 15, 1923, he was appointed Minister of Education by Prime Minister Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics and as such was a member of the government until January 26, 1924.

On December 19, 1924, he succeeded Voldemārs Zāmuels as Prime Minister for the first time . At the beginning of his cabinet, which was in office until December 23, 1925, he again took over the office of Minister of Agriculture until March 5, 1925. Later he was also Foreign Minister from August 22 until the end of his term of office , after which the previous incumbent Meierovics was killed in a car accident. Successor as Prime Minister was Kārlis Ulmanis.

Prime Minister from 1928 to 1931

On December 1, 1928, he was again Prime Minister as the successor to Pēteris Juraševskis . His government, which was in office until March 26, 1931, was one of the longest governments of the (first) Republic of Latvia. Celmiņš was again foreign minister from February 4, 1930 until the end of the reign. On March 27, 1931, Ulmanis succeeded him again in the office of Prime Minister. During his tenure, he was also a delegate at the 11th Ordinary Session of the League of Nations in Geneva from September 10 to October 4, 1930.

Subsequently, he was first mayor of Riga and from 1935 to 1938 Latvian envoy to the German Reich .

In 1940 he was arrested and deported to the Soviet Union , where he was shot the following year.

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Latvian)
• Biographical information in rulers.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of the community Lubahn (Latvian: Lubāna)
2. ↑ Vanda Zarina: Rīgas domnieki laikmeta līkločos . Rīgas dome, Riga 2019, ISBN 978-9984-31-148-7 , p. 235.
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. 
4. ^ Participants in the 11th session of the League of Nations in 1930
5. ↑ Ambassador of the Republic of Latvia in Germany ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2011 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
Voldemārs Zāmuels	Prime Minister of Latvia December 23, 1924 - December 23, 1925	Kārlis Ulmanis
Pēteris Juraševskis	Prime Minister of Latvia December 1, 1928 - March 27, 1931	Kārlis Ulmanis

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