2011Friedrich Karl Akel - Set

* 5 September 1871 in Halliste, † 3 July 1941 in Tallinn State Elder 26 March 1924 - 16 December 1924 1922-1923 Estonian ambassador to Finland, 1923-1924, 1926-1927 and 1936-1938 foreign minister, 1928-1934 Estonian ambassador to Sweden and Denmark, in 1934-1936 to Germany and the Netherlands. In 1923-1929 member of the 2nd and 3rd Riigikogu (parliament), in 1938-1940 member of the National Council. Akel attended the Alexander Gymnasium in Tartu and studied in the Faculty of Medicine of Tartu University in 1892–1897. He was an assistant in the Tartu University Clinic, a doctor in the Reimers Ophthalmology Clinic in Riga, 1899–1901 a doctor in the Ujazdov Hospital in Warsaw. In 1901 he studied in Berlin, Prague and Leipzig. Akel worked as a private ophthalmologist in Tallinn in 1902-1904 and 1905-1912 in Tallinn; in 1907 he was one of the founders of the Private Clinic of Estonian Physicians. In 1912 he founded his own eye clinic. In 1904–1905 served as physician in the Russo-Japanese War. He was also a member and chairman of the Tallinn Municipal Council and Honorary Justice of the Peace in the Tallinn-Haapsalu Magistracy Court. Akel was a member the Board of the Northern Baltic Union of Physicians and the Tallinn Popular Education Society, Chairman of the Kalev Sports Society, of the Building Society of the Estonia Theatre and the Estonia Society in Tallinn, member and chairman of the council and member of the board of the Tallinn Loan and Savings Society, later the Tallinn Krediitpank (Credit Bank), 1920–1922 secular vice-president of the Consistory of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, and in 1927–1932 the Estonian representative in the International Olympic Committee. Akel was arrested by the NKVD on 17 October 1940 and was shot in Tallinn on 3 July 1941.