Kārlis Ulmanis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Kārlis Ulmanis

President of Latvia

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1877

Place of Birth: Bērze, Dobele Municipality, Latvia

Date of Death: 20-Sep-1942

Profession: politician, diplomat

Nationality: Latvia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Kārlis Ulmanis

  • Karlis Augusts Vilhelms Ulmanis (September 4, 1877, in Berze, Berze Parish, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire – September 20, 1942, in Krasnovodsk prison, Soviet Union, now Türkmenbasy, Turkmenistan) was one of the most prominent Latvian politicians of pre-World War II Latvia during the interwar period of independence from November 1918 to June 1940.
  • He served four times as Prime Minister, the last time as the head of an authoritarian regime.
  • The legacy of his dictatorship still divides public opinion in Latvia.
  • Born in a prosperous farming family, Ulmanis studied agriculture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and at Leipzig University.
  • He then worked in Latvia as a writer, lecturer, and manager in agricultural positions.
  • He was politically active during the 1905 Revolution, was briefly imprisoned in Pskov, and subsequently fled Latvia to avoid incarceration by the Russian authorities.
  • During this period of exile, Ulmanis studied at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the United States, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture.
  • After working briefly at that university as a lecturer, Ulmanis moved to Houston, Texas.
  • The dairy business he had bought there ran into financial difficulties.Ulmanis returned to Latvia from American exile in 1913, after being informed that it was now safe for political exiles to return due to the declaration of a general amnesty by Nicholas II of Russia.
  • This safety was short-lived as World War I broke out one year later and Courland Governorate was partially occupied by Germany in 1915.

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