Jaan Teemant, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jaan Teemant

Estonian lawyer and politician

Date of Birth: 24-Sep-1872

Place of Birth: Vigala Rural Municipality, Rapla County, Estonia

Date of Death: 23-Jul-1940

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: Estonia

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Jaan Teemant

  • Jaan Teemant (24 September [O.S.
  • 12 September] 1872, in Illuste (now Paatsalu), Vigala Parish, Kreis Wiek (in present-day Pärnu County) – unknown) was an Estonian lawyer and politician. Teemant studied in H.
  • Treffner's Private High School.
  • In 1901 he graduated from the Department of Law the Saint Petersburg University.
  • He was a solicitor in Tallinn.
  • In 1904–1905 was a member of the Tallinn Municipal Council.
  • Teemant participated in the revolution of 1905, escaped to Switzerland in the same year and was sentenced to death by default.
  • In 1908, he came back to Estonia after the end of the state of war, was in pretrial imprisonment in 1908–1909 and was sentenced to prison for one and a half years.
  • He served the sentence in Saint Petersburg.
  • In 1911– 1913 he was in exile in the Arkhangelsk Province.
  • After returning to Estonia, Teemant was a member of the Estonian Province Assembly (Estonian: Eesti Maanõukogu) from 1917 to 1919.
  • In 1918 he was Attorney General of the Republic of Estonia.
  • During 1919–1920 he was a member of the Constituent Assembly (Asutav Kogu) and during 1923-1934/1937 he was a member of the II-V Riigikogu.
  • In 1939–1940, Teemant was the Estonian trustee in the German Trustee Government (an organisation for managing of the property of the resettled Baltic-Germans in 1939–1940).
  • On 23 July 1940 Teemant was arrested by the NKVD, and was probably shot in Tallinn or died in the Tallinn Central Prison.
  • According to other data he was sentenced to prison camp for 10 years on 21 October 1941, with no further information on his fate.

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