Lagle Parek
Lagle Parek ( born April 17, 1941 in Pärnu ) is an Estonian politician.
Eight months before her birth, Estonia was incorporated into the Soviet Union. Her father Karl Parek 1941 arrested by the NKVD and executed in the same year. Was in March 1949 Lagle Parek the age of seven with her mother, the art historian Elsbet Marek (* 1902), her sister Eva (* 1931) and her grandmother, Estonian actress Anna Markus ( b. 1878 ), deported to the Novosibirsk Oblast. It was only in 1954/55 was able to return to Estonia the family.
Lagle Parek then studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Tallinn. Then worked as an architect for the state works department of the Estonian SSR.
Lagle Park remained a dissident against the Soviet regime. On October 10, 1981, she participated in a petition that called for a nuclear-free zone around the Baltic Sea. This and the publication of articles in émigré publications brought her in March 1983 an accusation of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. In December 1983, she was sentenced to six years in a labor camp and three years of exile. She was then imprisoned in the nearby in the middle Volga ASSR Mordovia, but was granted an early release in 1987.
Lagle Parek 1988 was a founding member of the " Party of National Independence of Estonia " ( Eesti Rahvusliku Sõltumatuse party). It was the first democratic party that was founded after the Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1940. From 1988 to 1992 Lagle Parek was chairman of the ERSP. In 1992, she ran unsuccessfully for election to the Estonian President.
From October 1992 to November 1993 Lagle Parek was in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mart Laar Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Estonia. Today it is one of the Conservative Party Isamaa yes Res Publica Liit on, in which the Independence Party has risen.
In November 2007 Lagle Parek was chosen because of its social services to the " Citizen of the Year ". She lives today in the Catholic Convent of Pirita and has served as the President of the Estonian Caritas.