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Jaan Teemant | |
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.jpg) Jaan Teemant in 1932 | |
| 7th and 12th State Elder of Estonia | |
| In office 19 February 1932 (1932-02-19) – 19 July 1932 (1932-07-19) | |
| Preceded by | Konstantin Päts |
| Succeeded by | Karl August Einbund |
| In office 15 December 1925 (1925-12-15) – 9 December 1927 (1927-12-09) | |
| Preceded by | Jüri Jaakson |
| Succeeded by | Jaan Tõnisson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1872-09-12)12 September 1872 Illuste,Vigala Parish,Governorate of Estonia,Russian Empire |
| Died | Possibly 24 July 1941 (aged 68) Tallinn, Estonia |
| Political party | Rural League (1917–1920) Farmers' Assemblies (1920–1932) Union of Settlers and Smallholders (1932–1935) |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg Imperial University |
Jaan Teemant (24 September [O.S. 12 September] 1872[1] – possibly 24 July 1941) was anEstonian lawyer and politician.
Teemant was born in Illuste (nowPaatsalu),Vigala Parish, in present-dayPärnu County. He graduated fromHugo Treffner Gymnasium inTartu in 1893, and thereafter studied at the Department of Law atSaint Petersburg Imperial University, graduating in 1901. Upon his graduation he returned to Estonia, where he worked as a solicitor inTallinn.
In 1904–1905, Teemant was a member of the Tallinn Municipal Council. He participated in the1905 Revolution, and was elected head of the All-Estonian Congress, held in Tartu in November 1905. His activities during the revolution forced him into exile inSwitzerland; while there, he was sentenced to deathin absentia. After the state of martial law imposed after the revolution was lifted and his death sentence was revoked, Teemant returned to Estonia in 1908. There, he was arrested and held in pretrial detention in 1908–1909, and then sentenced to one and a half years in prison. He served his prison sentence inSaint Petersburg, and then spent 1911–1913 in penal exile in theArkhangelsk province in northern Russia.
After returning to Estonia, Teemant worked as a lawyer in Tallinn. He was a member of theEstonian Provincial Assembly between 1917 and 1919. In 1918, shortly after theEstonian declaration of independence, he was named Prosecutor-General of the newly formedRepublic of Estonia. In 1919–1920 he was a member of theEstonian Constituent Assembly, and between 1923 and 1934 he was a member of the II-VRiigikogu, the Estonian parliament.
Teemant was named an honorary doctor of law at theUniversity of Tartu in 1932.[2] In 1939–1940, he was the Estonian trustee in the German Trustee Government, an organisation managing the property of the resettledBaltic Germans.
Following the June 1940Soviet invasion and occupation of Estonia and the other Baltic states, Teemant was arrested by theNKVD on 23 July. He is believed to have been shot in Tallinn, or to have died inPatarei Prison. According to other sources, he was handed a 10-year sentence in a prison camp on 21 October 1941, with no further information about his fate.[3]
Estonia:Order of the Cross of the Eagle, 1st class (1930)
Latvia: Commander Grand Cross of theOrder of the Three Stars (1926)| Preceded by | State Elder of Estonia 1925–1927 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | State Elder of Estonia 1932 | Succeeded by |
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