The Social Travaillist Party was a political party in Estonia .
7-720: The party was founded in July 1917 by Ants Piip and Julius Seljamaa order to contest the Estonian Provincial Assembly elections that year. It was modelled on the French Radical Socialist Party , and used the French "Travail" in its name. The party co-operated closely with the Estonian Radical Socialist Party and the two became known as the "Labourites". The Labourites won 11 of the 62 seats in
14-838: The Paris Peace Conference . In 1919 he was Deputy to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1919–1920 Member of the Estonian delegation in the Tartu peace negotiations between Estonia and the Russian SFSR . In 1919–1940 he was Professor of International Law in Tartu University . In 1920, he was the diplomatic representative the Republic of Estonia in Great Britain. 1920–1921, while Head of State , Piip
21-934: The Assembly elections, becoming the second-largest faction after the Rural League , and went on to finish second again in the 1918 Constituent Assembly elections . In 1919 the two parties merged to form the Estonian Labour Party . The Social Travaillist Party aimed to mediate between the conservative agrarian parties and the revolutionary parties in the left. It gained its support from civil servants and commercial workers. Ants Piip Ants Piip VR III/1 (also Anton or Hans Piip; 28 February [ O.S. 16 February] 1884 in Tuhalaane , Kreis Fellin – 1 October 1942 in Nyrobsky camp , Perm Oblast , Russian SFSR )
28-886: The Russian Justice and Interior Ministries. Piip took additional courses in the Berlin University in 1912. Piip was a member of the Estonian Province Assembly ( Estonian : Maapäev ), and later a member of the Constituent Assembly ( Asutav Kogu ), and after that, of the Riigikogu . In 1917–1919, Piip was a member of the Estonian Foreign Mission in Saint Petersburg and in London, he participated in
35-937: Was a parish clerk and schoolteacher at Alūksne , also a teacher in the Emperor Nikolai Eastern Orthodox Parish School in Kuressaare in 1905–1906, in the Kuressaare Marine School in 1906–1912, and in the Janson Merchant School in Saint Petersburg in 1913–1915. He studied at the law department of the Saint Petersburg University in 1908–1913 and received a scientific scholarship from the Saint Petersburg University in 1913–1916, during that time he worked in
42-674: Was also the Minister of War. He held position of Minister of Foreign Affairs five times, also he was in 1923–1925 the Envoy of Estonia to the United States of America. During 1938–1940, Piip was also member of the Riigivolikogu (first chamber of the Riigikogu ). Piip was arrested by the NKVD on 30 June 1941 and he died in a Soviet prison camp NyrobLag the next year. Ants Piip, in 1934 in Riga , emphasised
49-658: Was an Estonian lawyer, diplomat and politician. Piip was the 1st Head of State of Estonia and the 5th Prime Minister of Estonia . Piip played a key role in internationalising the independence aspirations of Estonia during the Paris Peace Conference following World War I . Son of a small independent farmer, Piip took his high school exams at the Kuressaare State High School and studied at Teachers' Seminar in Kuldīga (formerly Goldingen), now in Latvia . In 1903–1905, he
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