Tiit Vähi

Tiit Vähi ( born January 10, 1947 in Valga ) is an Estonian politician and entrepreneur. It was 1992, and from 1995 to 1997 Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia.

Early years

After graduation Tiit Vähi studied engineering at the Technical University of Tallinn. During the Soviet occupation of Estonia Tiit Vähi was director of a transit operation in Valga. In the period of perestroika, he went into politics. In Valga county, he campaigned for the restoration of Estonian independence and the transition to a liberal market economy.

Policy

From 1989 to 1992 was Vähi Transport Ministers of the Estonian government. During this time, he managed to restore the Estonian control over the airports, ports and railways in Estonia. From 1991, he was appointed special adviser for the economically difficult ailing northeastern Estonia, with its heavy industry. From January to October 1992 Vähi was Estonian Prime Minister for the first time. He formed his cabinet largely of technocrats and specialists. Vähi led the Estonian Kroon as a currency and founded the Estonian Privatisation Agency ( Eesti Erastamisagentuur ), whose task was the privatization of the former Soviet state enterprises.

The co-founded by Tiit Vähi Estonian Coalition Party ( Koonderakond ) won under his chairmanship, the parliamentary elections of 1995. From April 1995 to March 1997 Vähi was again Prime Minister.

Entrepreneur

1999 fell apart the Estonian Coalition Party and Vähi joined the liberal Estonian Reform Party. Vähi but devoted himself after 1998, especially his work as an entrepreneur in Ida- Viru in the predominantly Russian-speaking north-east Estonia at Narva. In particular, the transfer of an operation of the former military - industrial complex processed into AS Silmet, the rare earths and the development of the area and the harbor Sillamäe Sillamäe is a part of life performance Tiit Vähis.