Olev Olesk

Olev Olesk ( born March 4, 1921 in Sooküla at Põlva, today Lasva municipality, county Võru, Estonia) was from 1990 to 1992 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Estonian government in exile.

Estonia

Olev Olesk was born the son of the farmer and local politician John Olesk. Olev attended primary school in Põlva and Progymnasium in Tartu. He graduated in 1941, first teaching seminar in Tartu, before studying at the University of Tartu 1942-1944 jurisprudence. In September 1944, he fled across the Baltic Sea from the Red Army and the Soviet occupation of Estonia to Sweden.

Sweden

From 1945 to 1951 Olev Olesk teacher was at the Estonian school in Stockholm, which he co-founded. He then devoted himself to the banking industry. From 1951 to 1956 he worked at Svenska Handelsbanken, before he moved to New York City.

From 1956 to 1968 Olesk was at the Irving Trust Company ( ITC) employed from 1968 to 1973 he was an employee of The Bank of Tokyo Ltd.. and from 1973 until his retirement in 1992 at the Algemene Bank Nederland NV ( ABN ).

Policy

Already 1951 Olev Olesk castle in Sweden at the Estonian exile movement. Olesk was also a member of the Swedish Liberal People's Party. The Enlightenment of the West about the Soviet crimes was one of his main concerns.

In March 1986, Olev Olesk Minister without Portfolio in the Estonian government in exile. From 20 June 1990 to 7 October 1992, he was Secretary of the Estonian government in exile. Then he handed over his duties the first freely elected Foreign Minister of Estonia after the Second World War, Lennart Meri.