Tiit Made (13 March 1940) is an Estonian politician. He was a writer of the in 1987, and he served in the

VII Riigikogu VII Riigikogu was the seventh legislature of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu). The legislature was elected after 1992 election, the first after the Estonian Restoration of Independence. Election results Results: Officers Speaker of the Rii ...

and VIII Riigikogu from 1992 to 1999.

Early life

Tiit Made was born in

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on 13 March 1940. Made attended the

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, where he graduated with a degree in economics in 1965. He then attended

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, teaching at the Tallinn Polytechnical Institute at the same time. He graduated with a

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degree in economics in 1971 and joined the

Communist Party of Estonia The Communist Party of Estonia (, abbreviated EKP; in Russian: Коммунистическая партия Эстонии) was a regional branch of the CPSU, Soviet communist party (CPSU) which in 1920–1940 operated illegally in Estonia an ...

that same year. Made worked as the Soviet Union's consular

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to Sweden from 1974 to 1977. Then from 1979 to 1984 he was director of the State Planning Committee of the Information Institute of the ESSR. Over the following years, he taught at the Institute of Qualification and the Teachers Continuing Education Institute, and he appeared as a commentator on

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and

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Political career

Made was a writer of the of 27 September 1987, and he co-founded the in 1988. In 1989, he was elected president of the Federation of Estonian Cooperatives and Private Entrepreneurs and elected to the

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, and he resigned from teaching. While in the Supreme Soviet, he was on the Foreign Affairs Committee. Made co-founded the in 1990 and became its inaugural chairman. That year, he was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the ESSR. The year 1991 marked Made's resignations from the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and from the chairmanship of the Estonian Entrepreneurs Party. Made was then elected to the

in 1992. His term as president of the Federation of Estonian Cooperatives and Private Entrepreneurs ended in 1994. He was reelected to the VIII Riigikogu in 1995, but he lost reelection to the

IX Riigikogu IX Riigikogu was the ninth legislature of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu The Riigikogu (, from Estonian ''riigi-'', "of the state", and ''kogu'', "assembly") is the unicameral parliament of Estonia. In addition to approving legislation ...

in 1999. He then resumed his career as a teacher and a journalist.

References

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