Jaan Kriisa
Jaan Kriisa (born December 19, jul. / 31 December 1882 greg. In the rural community Ulila , then Tartu county , Governorate of Livonia , † 8. August 1942 in the prison camp Sewurallag in Sosva , Sverdlovsk Oblast , Soviet Union ) was an Estonian lawyer and politician .
Life, law, politics
Jaan Kriisa was born the son of farmers Johan (1835–1924) and Anna Krisa (née Sollman, 1837–1905). After the community school he attended the renowned Hugo-Treffner-Gymnasium in Tartu . In 1906 he graduated from high school in Saint Petersburg . From 1906 to 1911 he studied law at the University of Tartu . He belonged to the Association of Estonians Students ( Eesti Üliõpilaste Selts ).
After completing his studies, Kriisa worked as a lawyer in Pärnu in 1911/12 and in Valga from 1912 to 1917 . In 1917 he held the post of deputy mayor of Valga. From October 1917 until the German occupation of Estonia in February 1918, Kriisa was Lord Mayor of the second largest Estonian city of Tartu. He held the same office from the end of the German occupation from November 1918 to November 1919.
Kriisa was politically active in the conservative national liberal Estonian People's Party ( Eesti Rahvaerakond ). From November 18, 1919 to July 28, 1920 Kriisa was Minister of Food in the cabinet of Prime Minister Jaan Tõnisson . He held the same office until October 26, 1920 in the subsequent cabinet . He was then a member of the Estonian Parliament ( Riigikogu ). In January 1921 he resigned as a member of parliament.
After leaving politics, Kriisa worked again as a lawyer.
With the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Kriisa was arrested on June 14, 1941 and taken to the interior of the Soviet Union. He was executed in August 1942 in the Sevurallag “reform and labor camp” (Северо-Уральский исправительно-трудовой лагерь) in Sverdlovsk Oblast .
Private life
Jaan Kriisa was married to Adeline-Johanna Kriisa (née Luik, 1895–1977) since 1922. She was deported to Siberia in 1941 and was only able to return to Estonia in 1955. The marriage remained childless.
Web links
- Photo (Estonian National Archives)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Juuniküüditamins ja advokaadid. Eesti riigi ülesehitajatest küüditamisohvriteks. June 14, 2016
- ^ Unt, M .: Brecht at Night . Baltic literature series. Ed .: Dickens, E. Dalkey Archive Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-56478-532-9 ( google.at ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kriisa, Jaan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian lawyer and politician, member of the Riigikogu |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | then rural community Ulila , Tartu County , Livonia Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 1942 |
| Place of death | Sevurallag prison camp near Soswa , Sverdlovsk Oblast , Soviet Union |