Tõnis Kaasik (born 9 January 1949 in

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

) is an

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

n entrepreneur, fencer, environmentalist and conservationist, and politician. In 1966 and 1968, Kaasik was the

Estonian SSR The Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, (abbreviated Estonian SSR, Soviet Estonia, or simply Estonia ) was an administrative subunit ( union republic) of the former Soviet Union (USSR), covering the occupied and annexed territory of Estonia ...

sabre A sabre or saber ( ) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the Early Modern warfare, early modern and Napoleonic period, Napoleonic periods. Originally associated with Central European cavalry such a ...

fencing team champion. From 2004 until 2013, he was the President of the Estonian Fencing Association and from 2005 until 2013, he was a member of the representative body of the Estonian Olympic Committee. From 1991 until 1992, he was

Minister of the Environment An environment minister (sometimes minister of the environment or secretary of the environment) is a cabinet position charged with protecting the natural environment and promoting wildlife conservation. The areas associated with the duties of a ...

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Living people 1949 births Estonian male sabre fencers Estonian businesspeople Estonian conservationists Environment ministers of Estonia University of Tartu alumni Politicians from Tallinn Sportspeople from Tallinn {{estonia-politician-stub