Karl Robert Pusta
Kaarel Robert Puszta (born 18 Februarjul / March 1 1888greg in Narva, .. † May 4, 1964 in Madrid) was an Estonian lawyer, diplomat and politician. He was 1920 and 1924/25, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Estonia.
Youth and Exile
Kaarel Robert Pusta became involved early against the tsarist reign of Nicholas II in Russia. He belonged to the circle around Mikhail Kalinin. Puszta was arrested in 1903, but then released. In 1904, he fled into exile. He stayed in Germany, France and Switzerland. He used the time in Paris and Bern for his studies.
In 1906 he went back to his home and worked as a journalist. From 1906 to 1908 he was editor of the newspaper Virulane, from 1910 to 1914 was on the editorial board of Päevaleht busy. From 1915 to 1917 he participated as an official war in the First World War.
Diplomacy
With the proclamation of the Republic of Estonia, the diplomatic career of the polyglot Pusta began. 1918/19, he was one of the foreign policy paved the way for recognition of the new state through France and Belgium. In 1919 he participated in the Paris Peace Conference. From 1919 Pusta Estonian ambassador to France ( and Belgium). From 1921 to 1923 he was the Estonian ambassador in Rome.
He represented Estonia, among others, in the Assembly of the League and the League Council. In 1923, he was Vice President of the League of Nations Assembly.
More diplomatic top job led Pusta as ambassador to Spain (1928-1932), Poland (1932-1934, doppelakkreditiert for Romania and Czechoslovakia ) and Sweden (1935, doppelakkreditiert for Denmark and Norway).
Kaarel Robert Pusta was the founder of the Pan-European movement in Estonia. He was one of the greatest and most internationally recognized expert on international law of his country. Puszta was a founding member of the International Diplomatic Academy and a life member of the Hague Academy of International Law.
Policy
1920 was the non-party in the Puszta short-lived cabinet of state and head of government Ado Birk for three days Estonian foreign minister.
It followed from December 1924 to October 1925 a new term as foreign minister in the cabinet of Jüri Jaakson.
Arrest
After alleged coup plans of the banned right-wing extremist "Bunds freedom fighters", the Estonian government Pusta called in December 1935 by his diplomatic post in Sweden back. They suspected him (probably wrongly) to have maintained links with the alleged coup plotters.
By 1936 Pusta sat in custody, but was acquitted in a trial. Puszta left Estonia and lived in Paris. He was employed there at the Estonian embassy as a speaker.
With the German occupation of Paris on July 1940 and the Soviet occupation of Estonia 14 on 17 June 1940 Pusta opted for a life in the Spanish exile. He is buried in Madrid.
Publications (selection)
- L' idée de l' Union européenne et la devant les gouvernements Société des Nations (1931 )
- Les problèmes de la Baltique (1934 )
- Le statute juridique de la Mer Baltique à partir de XIX siècle (1936 )
- Kehra metsast maailma ( Memoirs, 1936)
- Saadiku päevik ( Memoirs, 1964)
- Kirjad kinnisest majast (posthumous, 1966)