Marģers Skujenieks

Marģers Skujenieks (born 10 Junijul / June 22 1886greg in Riga, .. † 1941 in Russia) was Latvian politician and twice Prime Minister of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party ( Latvijas socialdemokratiska Strādnieku Partija ).

Biography

Study and career

While still a student at a secondary school, he participated in the Russian Revolution of 1905. Subsequently, he completed a study of statistics in Moscow, from which he graduated in 1911. During his student days he fought for the independence of the Baltic States. As a statistician, he gained widespread attention, in particular as Director of the National Bureau of Statistics ( Latvijas Statistika ) on September 1, 1919 and also due to the publication of the Latvian Statistical Atlas of 1938 ( Latvijas statistikas atlass ).

Member of Parliament

His real political career began as a member of the Latvian People's Council ( Tautas padome ), who declared Latvia's independence on 18 November 1918. In 1919 he was a member as a member of the Latvian delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference.

In April 1920 he was elected member of the Constituent Assembly ( Satversmes sapulce ). Then took place in October 1922 he was elected Members of Parliament ( Saeima ), in which he represented then until May 1934, the interests of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party ( Latvijas socialdemokratiska Strādnieku Partija ).

Prime minister

On 19 December 1926 he was appointed as the successor of Arturs Alberings for the first Social Democratic Prime Minister. As such, he was in his last until January 23, 1928 term of office at the same time Minister of the Interior. Successor as Prime Minister was the following day Peteris Juraševskis. During his tenure, a trade agreement with the USSR was closed in 1927.

After the parliamentary elections of October 1931, he was then in place of Karlis Ulmanis on December 6, 1931 Prime Minister again. This office he held from this time until 23 March 1933. At times he was on 21 February 1932 to the end of his tenure also Finance Minister, and the temporary office of foreign minister. On 5 February 1932, he graduated in Riga with the USSR a nonaggression pact successor as Prime Minister was Ādolfs Bļodnieks.

Deputy Prime Minister, sports official and death

In the set up of Ulmanis on March 17, 1934 authoritarian regime, he was Deputy to the June 16, 1938 Prime Minister. At the same time he was chairman of the Sports Association and President of the National Olympic Committee. Later he leaned especially after the merger of the offices of the Minister and the President in the person of Ulmanis in 1936 by amending the Constitution of Latvia ( Satversme ), the government increasingly from.

After the occupation of Latvia by the Soviet Red Army in 1940, he was arrested and interned in the Soviet Union, where he soon died out.