Jüri Uluots
Jüri Uluots | |
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Prime Minister in the duties of the President | |
In office 20 June 1940 – 9 January 1945 | |
Prime Minister | Otto Tief |
Preceded by | Konstantin Päts as President |
Succeeded by | August Rei |
8th Prime Minister of Estonia | |
In office 12 October 1939 – 20 June 1940 | |
President | Konstantin Päts |
Preceded by | Kaarel Eenpalu |
Succeeded by | Himself (as Prime Minister in the duties of the President) |
Personal details | |
Born | 13 January 1890 St. Petersburg University |
Jüri Uluots (13 January 1890 – 9 January 1945) was an Estonian prime minister, journalist, prominent attorney and distinguished Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tartu.
Early life
Uluots was born in
Political career
Uluots was elected to the
After the Estonian President
In January 1944, the front was pushed back by the Soviet Army almost all the way to the former Estonian border. Narva was evacuated. Jüri Uluots delivered a radio address that implored all able-bodied men born from 1904 through 1923 to report for German military service (Before this, Uluots had opposed Estonian mobilization.) The call drew support from all across the country: 38,000 draftees appeared at German registration centers.[5] Several thousand Estonians who had joined the Finnish army came back across the Gulf of Finland to join the newly formed Territorial Defense Force, assigned to defend Estonia against the Soviet advance. It was hoped that by engaging in such a war Estonia would be able to attract Western support for the cause of Estonia's independence from the USSR and thus ultimately succeed in achieving independence.[6]
In March 1944 the
As the Germans retreated in September 1944, Uluots appointed a new government, headed by Otto Tief. On 20 September, the Estonian national government was proclaimed. Estonian forces seized the government buildings in Toompea and ordered the German forces to leave.[11]
Tief's government left Tallinn prior to the
Four days short of his 55th birthday, Uluots died of
Awards
1938 – Order of the White Star I
References
- Mälksoo, Lauri (2000). Professor Uluots, the Estonian Government in Exile and the Continuity of the Republic of Estonia in International Law. Nordic Journal of International Law 69.3, 289–316.
- Article about Otto Tief's government from the official site of the Estonian Embassy in Moscow
- ^ "Riigikogu juhatus". Riigikogu.
- ^ European Parliament (13 January 1983). "Resolution on the situation in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania". Official Journal of the European Communities. C 42/78. "whereas the Soviet annexias of the three Baltic States still has not been formally recognized by most European States and the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and the Vatican still adhere to the concept of the Baltic States".
- ISBN 978-1-78738-337-1.
- ISBN 978-0-8179-2852-0.
- ^ Resistance! Occupied Europe and Its Defiance of Hitler (Paperback)
by Dave Lande on Page 200 ISBN 0-7603-0745-8
- ISBN 0-312-16192-1
- ISBN 978-0-415-26728-1.
- ISBN 978-0-8108-4904-4.
- ^ L. Mälksoo, Professor Uluots, the Estonian Government in Exile and the Continuity of the Republic of Estonia in International Law, Nordic Journal of International Law, Volume 69, Number 3 / March, 2000
- ^ Chronology Archived 9 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine at the EIHC
- ^ By Royal Institute of International Affairs. Information Dept. Published 1945
- ^ "Uluots, Jüri". Archived from the original on 16 May 2022. Retrieved 14 May 2020.