Aleksander Hellat
Aleksander Hellat (born 8 Augustjul / August 20 1881greg in Tartu, Governorate of Livonia, .. † November 28, 1943 in Kemerovo Oblast, Soviet Union) was an Estonian lawyer and diplomat. It was 1922/23 and 1927 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia.
Training
Aleksander Hellat went from 1890 to 1896 in Tartu and from 1896 to 1900 in Saint Petersburg to school. From 1900 to 1903 he studied at the Academy of War medicine in Saint Petersburg and from 1903 to 1909 Law at the University of St. Petersburg.
Jurist
From 1909 to 1914 Aleksander Hellat was assistant to the prosecutor and later the Estonian Head of State Jüri Jaakson. 1914/15 was Hellat worked as a licensed attorney in Riga, 1915/16 in Narva and Tallinn in 1916-1918.
After the February Revolution of 1917 Hellat Hellat head of the militia of Tallinn was chosen. In 1918 he was briefly mayor of Tallinn. He joined the Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Party ( Eesti Sotsiaaldemokraatlik Tööliste party).
1919 Hellat prosecutor at the Estonian State Court. From November 1919 to July 1920 held Hellat in the cabinet of heads of state and head of government Jaan Tõnisson the Office of the Minister of the Interior of the newly founded Republic of Estonia.
Diplomacy
After that devoted Aleksander Hellat of diplomacy. From 1920 to 1922 he was the Estonian ambassador to Latvia. 1921/22, he was doppelakkreditiert same as Estonian diplomatic representative for Poland, Romania, Hungary and Greece, based in Warsaw. 1922 sent him the Estonian government as a delegate to the League of Nations.
From November 29th 1922 to August 2, 1923 was Aleksander Hellat in the Cabinet and Foreign Minister Juhan Kukk the Republic of Estonia.
Thereafter, he served from 1923 to 1931 Estonian ambassador in Finland. From 1925 to 1927 he was accredited at the same time as ambassador to Hungary with his office in Helsinki.
From November 11 to December 9, 1927 held the now non-party Hellat in the cabinet of Jaan Teemant briefly again the office of the Estonian Foreign Minister took over.
Then he returned to 1931 back to the Messenger Post in Helsinki. From 1931 to 1933 Hellat was in the Estonian Foreign Ministry in Tallinn adviser to the Estonian foreign minister.
Constitutional Court judges
From 1933 to 1940 Hellat judge was at the Estonian State Court ( Riigikohus ).
Deportation
After the occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union Aleksander Hellat was arrested on 24 September 1940 and deported to the interior of Russia. On 8 January 1941 he was sentenced to death, but then " pardoned " to ten years imprisonment. He died in 1943 in the Gulag.
Family
Aleksander Hellat was married to Ida -Marie Hellat, born Tofer ( 1880-1939 ). The couple had four children: Helen (1904-1944), Aleksander (1913 ), Liidia and Toomas ( 1920-1987 ) ( 1915-1944? ). Hellats brother of the Tallinn City architect Georg Hellat was ( 1870-1943 ).