Jüri Jaakson

Jüri Jaakson

Jüri Jaakson (born January 4 ^{. Jul} / 16th January  1870 ^greg. In the yard Kokkawidiku, today community Saarepeedi , Viljandi County , Estonia ; † 20th April 1942 in the prison camp Sosva, Sverdlovsk Oblast , Soviet Union ) was an Estonian politicians.

jurist

Jüri Jaakson was born to Ado (1818–1885) and Mari Jaakson (née Köhnberg, 1887–1915). He attended the renowned Hugo-Treffner-Gymnasium in Tartu .

Jaakson studied 1892-1896 jurisprudence at the University in Tartu . From 1997 to 1901 he worked as a lawyer in Viljandi and from 1901 to 1914 in the Livonian capital Riga . From 1915 to 1919, Jüri Jaakson was a member of the supervisory board of Tallinn City Bank ( Tallinna Linnapank ).

politics

Residence of the Jaakson family in the 1920s and 30s in the Kadriorg district of Tallinn

In 1917 his political career began as assistant to the governor of Estonia . In 1917/18 he was a member of parliament and deputy chairman of the provisional parliament of the Estonia governorate . Jaakson belonged to the national-conservative Estonian Democratic Party ( Eesti Demokraatlik Erakond ), which was renamed the Estonian People's Party ( Eesti Rahvaerakond ) in late 1918 .

On February 24, 1918, Estonia proclaimed its detachment from Russia and its state sovereignty as a republic. From November 1918 to May 1919, Jüri Jaakson held the office of Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Prime Minister Konstantin Päts . He held the same office from May to September 1919 in the government of Otto Strandman and from November 1919 to late October 1920 in the cabinet of Jaan Tõnisson .

Jaakson was elected to the Constituent Assembly of the Republic of Estonia ( Asutav Kogu ) in 1919 . He then belonged to the parliament ( Riigikogu ) in all five legislative periods between the wars. From December 16, 1924 to December 15, 1925, Jaakson was head of state and government in a large coalition government.

Jaakson was a founding member and board member of numerous commercial banks in the young Republic of Estonia. From 1926 to 1940 he was President of the Estonian Central Bank ( Eesti Pank ). From 1938 he belonged ex officio to the State Council ( Riiginõukogu ), the second chamber of parliament. From 1929 to 1936 Jaakson represented the Republic of Estonia on the Finance Committee of the League of Nations in Geneva .

Deportation and execution

With the occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union , Jueri Jaakson was arrested by the NKVD on June 14, 1941 , taken to the interior of Russia and executed there in 1942 . His grave is unknown. A memorial in his home parish today commemorates him.

Private life

Jüri Jaakson was married to Mary Vilhelmine Olga Jaakson. In 1918 their daughter Liidia was born.

literature

• Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 104

Web links

• Biography of the Estonian Presidential Office (Estonian)
• TV documentary about Jüri Jaakson ( ERR , February 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jüri Jaakson on president.ee