Jüri Uluots' cabinet

Government of the Republic of Estonia under Prime Minister Jüri Uluots (Cabinet Uluots ). Term of office: October 12, 1939 to June 21, 1940.

Government

The government Uluots was according to the official count, the 27th Government of the Republic of Estonia since proclamation of state independence in 1918. She stayed 254 days in office.

On June 21, 1940, the Red Army occupied Estonia. Thus, the government was no longer able to exercise the state power in Estonia. Through an escape to Sweden Uluots could escape as the only member of the government of his arrest. Except for him, and Education Minister Kogerman all cabinet members died between July 1941 and September 1943. Kogerman survived the deportation to the interior of Russia, and died 1951.

Cabinet

End of the Republic

In the secret Additional Protocol to the German - Soviet Non-Aggression Pact ( " Hitler -Stalin Pact " ) on 23 August 1939, the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union divided Eastern Europe into spheres of interest. Among other things, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Lithuania and later fell to the Soviet sphere of interest.

Under the threat of military force, the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian governments agreed in 1939 to after the Soviet invasion of Poland, the stationing of troops of the Red Army in their countries. The deployments were initially limited to certain bases. Finland, which did not succumb to pressure from Moscow, was attacked by the Soviet Union in the " Winter War " in November 1939.

Stalin attacked despite the troops stationed in Estonia until the middle of 1940 not in the Estonian domestic politics. On June 17, 1940, however, the Red Army took over the power in Estonia. The Estonian armed forces were disarmed, more than 100,000 Soviet troops were stationed in Estonia. As envoy Stalin took over his confidant Andrei Zhdanov de facto power in the country. World politics was by the German invasion of France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg ( 10 May-25 June 1940) distracted and gave the Baltic little attention.

On 21 June 1940, the Soviet occupation forces staged demonstrations demanding the dismissal of the " bourgeois " government Uluots. On the same day the Estonian President Konstantin Pats appointed to pressure from Moscow, the Estonian writer Johannes Vares as Prime Minister and a leftist Moscow puppet government of intellectuals and members of the workers' movement. The list of names was given by the Soviet authorities.

The new government took office with the Vares was sworn in by President Pats on 22 June 1940. Pats was deported with his wife inside the Soviet Union in July. On August 6 1940, Estonia was incorporated as Estonian SSR of the Soviet Union.

( Exile ) government

Prime Minister Uluots succeeded as the only member of the government to avoid arrest. He fled into exile in September 1944 to Stockholm. He died in January 1945 of cancer.

The Estonian constitutional law do not recognize the appointment of Johannes Vares as Prime Minister on 21 June 1940 as they had come under pressure from the Soviet Army about. Because President Pats under house arrest of the Soviet authorities and was later deported, Uluots fell from the June 21, 1940 state law to the representation of the President.

On September 18, 1944 in the final days of the Nazi occupation of Estonia and the German retreat, Uluots appointed as acting President of the Estonian politician Otto low against the representatives of the Prime Minister and a new government. Depth was arrested on 10 October 1944 by the advancing Soviet troops in the Baltics and sentenced to ten years hard labor.

After Uluots ' death on January 9, 1945 August Rei took over the office of " Prime Minister with the duties of the President " ( Peaminister Vabariigi Presidendi ülesandeis ) as contemporary constitutional head of state of the Republic of Estonia. Rei, who acted in the office of the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet depth, had fled in 1940 to Sweden and lived there until his death in 1963 in exile.