Rudolf Möllerson

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Rudolf Möllerson (born August 8, 1892 in Tartu , † October 8, 1940 in Berlin ) was an Estonian diplomat. In 1939/40 he was the envoy of the Republic of Estonia in Berlin.

Early years

Rudolf Alexander Möllerson attended school in Tartu (German Dorpat ) and Pskow ( Pleskau ). He completed his mechanical engineering studies at the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1914 . He then worked in the private sector in Germany , Switzerland and Russia .

Möllerson was during the Estonian War of Independence against Soviet Russia (1918-1920) liaison officer of the Estonian government in the British naval forces allied with Estonia . Until 1921 he worked for the British military mission.

Diplomatic career

Then Möllerson went to the newly established diplomatic service of the Republic of Estonia. For a short time he was the head of the administrative department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tallinn ( Reval ) before he worked as a consultant and consul general at the Estonian legation in London from 1921 to 1931 . In 1931 he returned to Tallinn as head of the administration department in the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From there on, his career took off. In 1933/34 Möllerson was briefly consul general in Leningrad , then director of the political department of the Foreign Ministry. From 1936 to 1937 Möllerson was a consultant at the Estonian embassy in Paris , from 1937 to 1939 Estonian envoy in Helsinki and from November 15, 1939 to August 8, 1940, envoy of the Republic of Estonia in Berlin (also accredited as envoy in the Netherlands ).

Occupation of Estonia

As a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact of August 24, 1939, the Red Army occupied the Republic of Estonia in June 1940. In August 1940, the Estonian legation in Berlin was closed. Möllerson refused to return to Estonia and was sentenced to death in absentia by the Soviet occupation organs. He died a few weeks later of heart disease, probably in Berlin.

Möllerson was the last Estonian envoy in Germany before Estonian independence was regained in 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ corresponds to the current rank of ambassador
  2. ↑ Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 316
  3. ↑ http://www.estemb.de/static/files/062/saadikute_elulood.pdf

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personal data
SURNAME Möllerson, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Tartu
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1940
Place of death unsure: Berlin