Jaan Teemant Estonian statesman. Date of Birth: 24.09.1872 Country: Estonia

Content:

1. Birth and Early Life
2. - Worked as an assistant to a lawyer in Reval (present-day Tallinn).
3. Return to Estonia and Legal Practice
4. - Sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for his political activities.
5. - Practiced law in Tallinn from 1913 to 1940.
6. - General Prosecutor of the Estonian Republic from 1918 to 1919.
7. Later Years and Death
8. - Arrested by the NKVD on July 23, 1940.

Birth and Early Life

- Born in Estonia in an unknown year (exact date not provided)
Education and Legal Career
- Graduated from N. Treffner's private gymnasium.
- Obtained a law degree from St. Petersburg University in 1901.

- Awarded an honorary doctorate of law from the University of Tartu in 1932.

- Worked as an assistant to a lawyer in Reval (present-day Tallinn).

Political Activism and Revolution
- Joined the Reval City Council in 1904-1905.
- Participated actively in revolutionary events in 1905.

- Elected head of the All-Estonian Assembly of People's Representatives in Tartu in December 1905.

- Led the assembly in the Aula Magna of the University of Tartu, known as the "Aula Assembly."

- Forced to emigrate to Switzerland after being sentenced to death in absentia under martial law.

Return to Estonia and Legal Practice

- Returned to Estonia in 1908 after the lifting of martial law and his death sentence.

- Sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for his political activities.

- Exiled to Arkhangelsk Governorate from 1911 to 1913 after serving his prison term.

- Practiced law in Tallinn from 1913 to 1940.

- Chair of the College of Advocates from 1919 to 1925.
Political Career
- Member of the Estonian Provisional Land Council from 1917 to 1919.

- First Deputy Chairman of the Estonian Provisional Land Council in 1917.

- General Prosecutor of the Estonian Republic from 1918 to 1919.

- Member of the Constituent Assembly from 1919 to 1920.
- Member of the Riigikogu (Estonian Parliament) from 1923 to 1940.

- State Elder (head of state) from December 15, 1925 to December 9, 1927, and February 19, 1932 to July 19, 1932.

- Criticized the authoritarian regime of Konstantin Päts after the coup d'état of 1934.

Later Years and Death

- Represented Estonia in the German Trusteeship Administration from 1939 to 1940.

- Arrested by the NKVD on July 23, 1940.

- Died or was executed in the Tallinn Central Prison in 1941 (exact circumstances unknown).

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