Julius Seljamaa
Julius Friedrich Seljamaa (born 27 Märzjul / April 8 1883greg in Sindi, Governorate of Livonia, .. † June 17, 1936 in Tallinn, Estonia) was an Estonian politician, diplomat and journalist. He was from October 1933 to June 1936 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia.
Early years
Julius Friedrich Seljamaa was born the son of a weaver. He attended from 1890 to 1897 the primary school in Sindi.
Seljamaa studied 1899-1902 at the teacher training college of the Livonian capital Riga. From 1902 to 1909 he was a teacher and from 1905 director at an educational institution in Taali (now rural community Tori ), from 1909 to 1914 at a school in Rakvere.
1914 moved Seljamaa to Saint Petersburg, where he graduated from high school the following year. In the Russian capital, he studied from 1915 to 1918 jurisprudence. In St. Petersburg, he was also a journalist at the petty-bourgeois Estonian daily newspaper Pealinna Teataja ( "Capital Gazette " ) operates. Seljamaa was accredited as a journalist at the 4th State Duma.
Politician and journalist
After the February Revolution, he became politically active. In 1917, he was a leading member of the "Union of Estonian Republican " ( Eesti Vabariiklaste Liit ). In the same year Seljamaa was elected as an MP in the Provisional Parliament of the Government of Estonia. He also belonged to the All-Russian Constituent Assembly to ( Всероссийское Учредительное собрание ).
Seljamaa was after the proclamation of Estonia's independence in February 1918 together with Johan Laidoner official representative of the Provisional Government of Estonia in Soviet Russia. At the same time he was Russian correspondent of the newspaper Eesti Päevaleht.
From 1918 to 1921 Seljamaa worked both as a journalist and as a diplomat. He took off in late 1919 in the negotiations for the Peace Treaty of Tartu in part. The peace treaty of February 2, 1920 marked the end of the Estonian Freedom War between the Republic of Estonia and Soviet Russia.
Seljamaa was one of the founders of the Estonian Labour Party ( Eesti Tööerakond ). He was a member of both the Constituent Assembly of the Republic of Estonia ( Asutav Kogu ) as well as the first term of the Estonian Parliament on ( Riigikogu ). By 1921 Seljamaa editor in chief of the Estonian newspaper Vaba Maa was ( " Free Land" ), one of the most important newspapers in Estonia during the interwar period.
Diplomat
Then made Seljamaa career diplomatic top posts of the Republic of Estonia. From January 1922 to May 1928 he was the Estonian ambassador to Latvia, 1925/26, in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas and from May 1928 to 1933 in the Soviet Union.
From October 1933 until shortly before his death in June 1936 was Estonian foreign minister in the Cabinet Seljamaa of state and head of government Konstantin Pats. He was considered cautious, objective and careful in all public utterances. Contemporaries described him as a conscientious worker files. He was a staunch supporter of the cordon sanitaire, a strong buffer zone between the Western powers and the Soviet Union, and therefore also joined for a Polish-Lithuanian compensation a.
Seljamaa early June was nominated as the Estonian ambassador to the Italian government (as well as in Austria and Hungary). He died before handing his credentials with 53 years in Tallinn cancer. Julius Seljamaa is on the Rahumäe cemetery in Tallinn buried.
Private life
Julius Seljamaa was married to Anna Maria Pütt ( 1892-1989 ). The couple had a son and a daughter.