Konstantin Päts

Konstantin Päts

Konstantin Päts (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈkons.tɑnʲ.tin ˈpætʲs]; 23 February [O.S. 11 February] 1874 – 18 January 1956) was the most influential politician of interwar Estonia, and served five times as the country's head of government. He was one of the first Estonians to become active in politics and started an almost 40-year political rivalry with Jaan Tõnisson, first through journalism with his newspaper Teataja, later through politics. He was condemned to death during the 1905 Revolution, but managed to flee first to Switzerland, then to Finland, where he continued his literary work. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Konstantin Päts has received more than 223,951 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Konstantin Päts is the 2,068th most popular politician (up from 2,470th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Estonia (up from 9th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Estonian Politician.

Konstantin Päts was the president of Estonia from 1938 to 1940. He is most famous for his authoritarian rule and for being a leader of the Estonian independence movement.