Aksel Mark (20 June 1913 – 17 June 2014) was an Estonian politician, chairman of the Estonian Democratic Union, journalist, newspaper editor and agronomist. Mark was the Estonian Minister of the Interior in exile between 1962 and 1992. Mark was born in Karaski, and had three brothers: Adolf (1905–1947; died in a Siberian prison camp), Albert (1907–1945; killed as a Forest Brother) and politician

Heinrich Mark Heinrich Mark (1 October 1911 – 2 August 2004) was an Estonian politician and Prime Minister of the Estonian Government in Exile. He was Prime Minister in duties of the President of the Republic of Estonia from 1 March 1990 to 6 October 1992, ...

(1911–2004). He graduated from Võru Common Gymnasium in 1931 and from the Faculty of Agriculture of the

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

in 1937. Following the Occupation of Estonia, he fled to Sweden. In Sweden, Mark worked in the field testing department of the

Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry ( sv, Kungliga Skogs- och Lantbruksakademien), formerly the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture (''Kungl. Lantbruksakademien''), founded in 1813 at the initiative of Crown Prince Charles, is on ...

in Stockholm and from 1950 until his retirement in

Uppsala Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Located north of the c ...

. He also continued his career as a journalist as an editor and editor-in-chief of the expatriate

Estonian language Estonian ( ) is a Finnic language, written in the Latin script. It is the official language of Estonia and one of the official languages of the European Union, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people; 922,000 people in Estonia and 160, ...

newspaper '' Teataja''. Aksel Mark was the chairman of the Eesti Välisvõitluse Fond and participated in the management of many Estonian expatriate organizations. He died in

, aged 100.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mark, Aksel 1913 births 2014 deaths Estonian agronomists Settlers' Party politicians Government ministers of Estonia Estonian journalists Estonian editors University of Tartu alumni Estonian World War II refugees Estonian emigrants to Sweden People from Kanepi Parish