Ants Piip
Ants Piip ( Anton Piip; . * 16 Februarjul / February 28 1884greg Farm Karu - Kukke, rural community Tuhalaane, today rural community Karksi, Viljandi County, . † 1 October 1942 Solikamsk, Perm Oblast ) was an Estonian politician and diplomat. He was several times foreign minister and 1920/1921 Heads of State and Head of Government of the Republic of Estonia.
Study
Ants Piip After leaving school in Kuressaare on the teacher training college of Kuldīga. 1903-1905 he was a teacher in Alūksne, then to the Orthodox parish school of Kuressaare on the island of Saaremaa. From 1906 to 1912 Piip taught at the Maritime School of Kuressaare, then from 1913 to 1915 at a trade school in the Russian capital Saint Petersburg. 1906/ 07 Piip was also employed as an editor at the newspaper Hääl in Kuressaare.
He studied at the same time from 1908 to 1913 Law at the University of St Petersburg, and in Berlin in 1912. From 1913 to 1916 he was promoted through a science scholarship to the University of Saint Petersburg employed. In 1916, he earned a master's degree in law. In 1917 he was lecturer at the University of Saint Petersburg for international law and official of the Russian Interior and Justice Ministry. Increasingly, he became politically active.
Politician and diplomat
1917/18 Piip was a member of the Provisional Parliament of the Government of Estonia. The Diet appointed him on 29 November 1917 the first international commissioner of the government.
With the proclamation of Estonia's independence in 1918 Piip was appointed ambassador to Great Britain. He had a big part to win the British government for military support of civil government in Estonian Estonian War of Independence against Soviet Russia. Piip was on February 2, 1920 co-signatories of the Treaty of Tartu between Estonia and Soviet Russia.
Piip was 1919/20, Member of the Estonian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference and served as a personal advisor to the Estonian foreign minister. His diplomatic career took him from 1923 to 1925 as the Estonian ambassador to the United States.
Ants Piip was a leading member of the Socialist Labor Party of Estonia ( Eesti Tööerakond ). In 1923 he was briefly editor of the party-affiliated newspaper Vaba Maa
From 1930 to 1940 Piip was a member of the city council of Tartu. He served from 1935 to 1938 as its Chairman.
He belonged to 1919/20, the Constituent Assembly of the Republic of Estonia ( Asutav Kogu ) and was from 1920 to 1923 deputy in the first term of the Estonian Parliament ( Riigikogu ). From 1938 to 1940 he was again a member of the Parliament ( Riigivolikogu ).
From October 1920 to January 1921 was Piip Estonian heads of state and head of government. He was a member of numerous Estonian cabinets:
Jurist
From 1914 to 1940 Ants Piip worked in addition to his political and diplomatic activities as a lawyer. In 1923 he was admitted to the court. 1919-1924, he served as Chair Representative for International Law at the University of Tartu, then until 1940 as a full professor. From 1930 to 1939 he was chairman of the academic judgment of the university.
From 1932 to 1940 he was a member of the Academic Law Association and from 1929 to 1940 Chairman of the Estonian Pan-European Union. He was a member of the Grotius Society, founded in 1915 in London.
Ants Piip has presented numerous scientific legal publications.
Arrest and death
After the Soviet occupation of Estonia Ants Piip was arrested by the NKVD on 30 June 1941. He died in the fall of 1942 in a Soviet prison camp in the Molotov Oblast.
Private life
Ants Piip was married to Benita Piip. The couple had a son, Ants Tonis Piip ( 1921-1942 ).