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  Nationality Estonia n
  Term Start March 1 , 1990
  Term End October 8 , 1992
  Predecessor Tõnis Kint
  Successor President Lennart Meri (in country)<br>Prime Minister Mart Laar (in country)
  Birth Date October 1 , 1911
  Birth Place Kõlleste , then Russian Empire , now Estonia
  Death Date August 2 , 2004
  Death Place Stockholm , Sweden


Heinrich Mark was born on October 1 , 1911 in the Krootuse (Kõlleste) rural municipality in the Võru County of Estonia . He died on August 2 , 2004 in Stockholm , Sweden .

He was Prime Minister "in duties of the President " of the Republic of Estonia from March 1, 1990 to October 6, 1992, being the last Estonian head of state in exile, as Estonian independence was restored in 1991.

1953-1971 State Secretary, 1971-1990 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of War of the Estonian Exile Government.

Studied in Võru, graduated from the Teachers' Seminar of Tartu. In 1933-1938 studied at the legal department of Tartu University.

In 1938-1940 elementary school teacher. In 1940 solicitor to the barrister P. Sepp in Tartu, in 1941-1943 a solicitor in Tallinn. In 1940, after the occupation of Estonia was a secretary of Tartu University for a short period, left on the recommendation of the rector H. Kruus. In 1940, put up a candidacy for the Riigivolikogu elections as an alternative candidate to the Estonian Working People's Union, was deleted from the list of candidates. Later hid in Estonia, escaped to Finland in 1943, was one of the organisers of the Estonian Bureau (an Estonian exile organisation) and assistant to the Editor-in-Chief of the "Malevlane" (a newspaper of the Estonians in the Finnish Army).

In 1944 moved to Sweden, was an assistant at the National Committee of Foreigners. In 1945- 1956, was Chairman of the education working group of the Estonian Committee, 1954-1975 Director of the Bureau and assistant Chairman of the Estonian Committee, 1975-1982 Chairman of the Estonian Committee, from 1982 Honorary Chairman of the Estonian Committee. In 1951-1979 Secretary-General of the Estonian National Council.


HONOURS AND DECORATIONS


In 1998 Honorary Doctor of Law of Tartu University. Honorary Member of the Estonian Literature Society, Golden Badge of the Estonian National Foundation, the I Class Gold Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, the II Class Order of the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Estonia.