Peeter Kurvits
Peeter Kurvits (born October 26 . Jul / 7. November 1891 greg. In the village of Lilli , today Viljandi County ; † 10. February 1962 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian banking expert.
Early years
Peeter Kurvits was born in 1891 to Jaan and Reet Kurvits (née Kals). He attended the renowned Peetri Realschule in Tallinn and then the Riga Polytechnic .
Military service
Peeter Kurvits received his military training in 1916 at the Ensign School in Peterhof . He then took part in the First World War as an officer .
During the Estonian War of Independence against Soviet Russia (1918-1920) he was drafted into the Estonian armed forces. Among other things, he served in the Commander-in-Chief's staff and was then deployed in the armored trains.
Rise in the banking sector
After the war Kurvits studied at the University of Tartu . Because of his military services he received a state scholarship. In 1924 he graduated from the Commercial Department of the Faculty of Law.
From 1921 to 1928 Kurvits was a department head at the Estonian central bank, Eesti Pank . From 1928 to 1932 he was director of Pikalaenu Pank (German "State Bank for Long-Term Loans"), which had been founded a year earlier . In 1932 he was elected director of the credit bank ( Krediit-Pank ). He held the office until 1940.
From May 18 to October 21, 1933, the non-party Kurvits was Minister of Economics in the short-lived cabinet of Prime Minister Jaan Tõnisson . In 1939 Kurvits became chairman of the supervisory board of the newly founded Estonian airline Ago .
Arrest and death
After the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Peeter Kurvits and his entire family were arrested on June 14, 1941 and taken to the interior of the Soviet Union. In 1943 he was sentenced to five years in prison by the NKVD , but released from the Gulag in May 1944 . Until the summer of 1956 he lived in exile in Kirov Oblast . Then he was allowed to return to his Estonian homeland.
Peeter Kurvits died in Tallinn six years later. He is buried in the Rahumäe cemetery.
Web links
- 125 aastat sünnist - Kurvits, Peeter Jaani P. - 7.11.1891 - 12.02.1962 according to Sakalamaa ei unusta: Karksi kihelkond: inimkaotused ja repressioonid alates 21. juunist 1940
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kurvits, Peeter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian banking expert |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lilli village , today Viljandi County |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 1962 |
| Place of death | Tallinn |