Lui Olesk
Amandus Louis Bernhard Olesk (born September 30 . Jul / 12. October 1876 greg. In the rural community Kavastu , Tartu county , Livonia ; † 19th February 1932 in Tartu , Republic of Estonia ) was an Estonian lawyer and politician.
Early years
Lui Olesk was born as the son of Helene Marie Norrmann (née Reinwald, 1844-1919), widowed since 1869. In 1883 he was adopted as a child by the farmer Peeter Olesk.
Lui Olesk attended the renowned Hugo-Treffner-Gymnasium in Tartu from 1895 to 1902 . He passed his Abitur as an external student in Narva . From 1902 he studied law at the University of Tartu. He belonged to the Association of Estonians Students ( Eesti Üliõpilaste Selts ). After graduating, Olesk worked as a lawyer in Tartu. At the same time he was also involved in the Postimees newspaper .
politics
He was drawn into politics early on. In 1905 he was one of the founders of the radical socialist group. At the same time he was the editor of the newspaper Vaba Sõna ("Free Word"). After the failure of the 1905 revolution , Olesk was imprisoned in 1906. He was exiled in Vologda between 1908 and 1910 .
From 1910 to 1917 he worked as a lawyer in Tartu again. From 1917 he belonged to the city council of Tartu and was its chairman.
During the German occupation of Estonia, Lui Olesk and his wife were imprisoned by the German rulers from April to November 1918. They were only released again with the collapse of the German Empire. Olesk then quickly organized the restoration of the legal order in southern Estonia. 1918/1919 he was chairman of the Tartu-Võru Peace Court.
With the establishment of the independent Republic of Estonia, he quickly made a political career in the social democratic Estonian Labor Party ( Eesti Tööerakond ). From April 1919 Olesk was a member of the Constituent Assembly of the Republic of Estonia ( Asutav Kogu ). From April to October 1919 he was first deputy chairman of the Constituent Assembly.
In August 1919, Lui Olesk was appointed attorney general of the young republic. In October 1919 he joined the short-lived coalition government under his party friend Otto Strandman as court minister . From October 1920 to January 1921 was Olesk Interior Minister and Labor and Social Affairs in the government of Anton Piip . He then belonged to the parliament ( Riigikogu ) until the end of 1921 .
After leaving parliament, Olesk returned to work as a lawyer and journalist. In 1923 he was briefly chief editor of the newspaper Vaba Maa ("Free Land") and in 1925 of the magazine Vaba Sõna .
In addition, Olesk was active in culture and business, including from 1928 until his death as chairman of the board of the insurance company Oma .
family
Lui Olesk was married to the women's rights activist and politician Minni Kurs-Olesk (1879–1940) since 1905 . Since both advocated the strict separation of church and state, the marriage was concluded without a church wedding, a scandal for the time. The couple had four daughters.
Like her husband, Minni Kurs-Olesk was a member of the Estonian Social Democratic Labor Party in 1919/1920 of the Constituent Assembly of the Republic of Estonia. She remained socially active throughout the interwar period and was one of the country's pioneering feminists.
Olesk's grandson, the well-known Estonian literary scholar and politician Peeter Olesk (* 1953), is a son of Lui and Minni Olesk's daughter Maja-Helmi Olesk (1909–2000).
literature
- Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 341
Web links
- Lui Olesk, politics, jurist ja ajakirjanik - EAA.2275 in Rahvusarhiiv
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Olesk, Lui |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Olesk, Amandus Louis Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rural Municipality of Kavastu , Tartu County , Livonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1932 |
| Place of death | Tartu , Republic of Estonia |