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    Kārlis Augusts Vilhelms Ulmanis ([ˈkaːrlis ˈɑuɡusts ˈvilxɛlms ˈuɫmɑnis]; 4 September 1877 – 20 September 1942) was a Latvian politician and a dictator...
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    Coup (15. maija apvērsums) or Ulmanis' Coup (Ulmaņa apvērsums), was a self-coup by the veteran Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis against the parliamentary system...
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    increasingly autocratic after the coup in 1934 established the dictatorship of Kārlis Ulmanis. Latvia's de facto independence was interrupted at the outset of World...
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  • Ulmanis (feminine: Ulmane) is a Latvian surname of German origin (from German surname Ullmann). Individuals with the surname include: Guntis Ulmanis (born...
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  • Look up Kārlis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kārlis or Karlis is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Kārlis Aperāts (1892–1944)...
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  • sodomy and "unnatural acts", for which he was imprisoned for six months. Kārlis Ulmanis, the authoritarian leader of Latvia between 1934 and 1940, was unmarried...
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    figures during the Latvian War of Independence and the dictatorship of Kārlis Ulmanis, when he was officially the number two of the regime as the Minister...
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    Farmer's Union was led by Kārlis Ulmanis, Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics and Hugo Celmiņš. The decreasing popularity of Ulmanis and of the Farmers' Union may...
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    encompasses three cabinets led by Kārlis Ulmanis, the leader of the Agrarian Union, who was chosen to be Prime Minister. The Ulmanis' government led the country...
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  • parliamentary republic between 1921 and 1934 when the then prime minister Kārlis Ulmanis took power in a coup d'état. In June 1940 Latvia was occupied and annexed...
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    handed over authority to the Latvian national government headed by Kārlis Ulmanis. During World War I, the German Army had occupied the Courland Governorate...
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  • (1930–1936) Kārlis Ulmanis, President (1936–1940) Kārlis Ulmanis, President (1936–1940) Prime ministers (complete list) – Kārlis Ulmanis, Prime minister...
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    of Latvia. It chose Jānis Čakste as the President of the Council and Kārlis Ulmanis as the Prime Minister of the Latvian Provisional Government. The People's...
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    of Latvia from 1993 to 1999. Guntis Ulmanis was born in Riga on 13 September 1939. His great uncle Kārlis Ulmanis was Latvian Prime Minister. In 1941...
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    power after a bloodless coup: Antanas Smetona in Lithuania (1926–1940), Kārlis Ulmanis in Latvia (1934–1940), and Konstantin Päts during the "Era of Silence"...
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    governments controlled most of Latvia. 2 On 15 May 1934, prime minister Ulmanis dissolved parliament and banned all political parties (including his own...
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    handed over authority to the Latvian national government, headed by Kārlis Ulmanis on 7 December 1918. The Baltische Landeswehr was formed in 1919 largely...
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    self-coup led by Kārlis Ulmanis in 1934, and the second most popular party overall after the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party. Ulmanis, who was a member...
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    after the Kviesis' second term expired on 11 April 1936, Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis would undertake the position until the 'completion of the constitutional...
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    failed to elect Meierovics, instead choosing Guntis Ulmanis, the great-nephew of Kārlis Ulmanis. Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics died in a car accident on 22...
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    reelected by Saeima for his second term. On 15 May 1934, Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis organized a coup d’etat, of which the President, his fellow party member...
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    Latvian personal name ( Ioakim Ioakimovich Vatsetis > Jukums Vācietis) . Kārlis Ulmanis during his authoritarian rule openly promoted the removal of the ethnic...
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    Centre party, while Rainis was put forward by the Social Democrats and Kārlis Ulmanis – by the Latvian Farmers' Union. In the first round, the incumbent president...
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    Sciences (2012) Upon the expiration of Kviesis's term, Prime minister Kārlis Ulmanis illegally merged the Presidency and the Premiership, holding both offices...
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    was Alberts Kviesis. Upon expiration of his term, Ulmanis by decree assumed presidential duties Ulmanis led his own party, Latvijas Zemnieku savienība,...
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    surrendered to the Soviet forces and the troops were sent to prison camps. Kārlis Ulmanis staged a bloodless coup d'état on May 15, 1934, establishing a nationalist...
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    Latvia's independence from Russia on November 18, 1918. Latvian leader Kārlis Ulmanis requested German Freikorps support for assistance against the Bolsheviks...
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    neo-attraction examples in Latvian architecture. In 1936, President Kārlis Ulmanis officially opened one of the most prestigious buildings in Latvia at...
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    of Latvia and created the Latvian Provisional Government headed by Kārlis Ulmanis. On 1 December 1918, the newly proclaimed republic was invaded by Soviet...
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  • (b. 1847) 1939 – Paul Bruchési, Canadian archbishop (b. 1855) 1942 – Kārlis Ulmanis, Latvian prime minister and president (b. 1877) 1945 – Augusto Tasso...
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