Mihkel Pung

Mihkel Pung (born 7 Oktoberjul / October 19 1876greg in Vana- Põltsamaa ( Viljandi County ). . † October 11, 1941 in the prison camp at Vyatka Sos'va, Sverdlovsk Oblast / Soviet Union, uncertain) was an Estonian lawyer and politician.

Early years

Mihkel Pung was born the son of a farmer. He attended the prestigious Hugo Treffner High School in Livonia Tartu ( Dorpat German ). From 1897 he studied law at the University of Tartu. 1900/1901 he took legal courses at the university in the Russian capital Saint Petersburg. 1902 closed Pung his studies in Tartu.

From 1903 to 1905 Pung was an editor at the Tallinn newspaper Teataja. In 1904 he was secretary of the Estonian capital city Tallinn ( Reval German ).

Pung took part in the revolution in 1905. For fear of persecution by the tsarist authorities he was forced to flee abroad. In 1906 he was able to return to Russia again.

From 1906 to 1911 Pung worked as an attorney in Saint Petersburg. From 1911 to 1918 he settled as a lawyer in Tallinn.

Lawyer and politician

With proclamation of state independence of Estonia in 1918 Mihkel Pung went into politics. He became a political confidant of his brother, the politician Konstantin Pats.

In March 1919, Pung was the first president of the Estonian Central Bank ( Eesti Pank ). With Finnish help, he prepared the edition of the Estonian market in Helsinki. It was from May 1919 only means of payment in the newly founded Republic of Estonia.

From 1920 to 1924 Pung maintained a bank office in Tallinn. From 1924 he worked as a lawyer again. He was also from 1926, Legal Adviser of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He also became politically active in the conservative- agrarian party "covenant of farmers " ( Põllumeeste Kogud ) by Konstantin Pats. From February to November 1931 was Pung Minister of Economic Affairs in the Cabinet of the State elders Konstantin Pats.

Pung then moved the party lines and joined the National Centre Party ( Rahvuslik Keskerakond ). From July to November 1932 Pung in the office of State Secretary of State elder Karl Einbund the Republic of Estonia. Pung was in the fourth (1929-1931) and fifth parliamentary term (1932-1934) Member of the Estonian Parliament ( Riigikogu ).

Even after the bloodless coup by Prime Minister Konstantin Pats in March 1934 remained Pung in high political offices. From 1935 to 1938 he belonged to the National Economic Council at ( Riiklik Majandusnõukogu ). In 1937 he was chairman of the Second Chamber of the Rahvuskogu, the Constituent Assembly, which drafted the Estonian Constitution of 1938. With the entry into force of the new Constitution Pung was a member of the second chamber of Parliament ( Riiginõukogu ) and was until 1940 the ( deputy ) chairman.

Arrest and death

After the Soviet occupation of Estonia in the summer of 1940 Pung and his family were arrested on 14 June 1941 in Tallinn and deported to the Soviet interior. Mihkel Pung died the same year in the prison camp Vyatka ( Sverdlovsk Oblast ).

Private life

Mihkel Pung was since 1905 with Marianne Pung, born Pats, married ( 1888-1947 ). The couple had two daughters and a son.

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