Aleksander Kesküla

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Aleksander Eduard Kesküla (21 March 1882 Saadjärve fief, Tartumaa - 17 June 1963 Madrid, Spain) was an Estonian politician and revolutionary.

In 1905 like a true bolshevik with aim to cause a great mess inside of Russian empire and, as Elisabeth Heresch tried to prove, did it in Japanese spy, Motohirto Akashi's interest.^[1]

Kesküla studied politics and economics in the universities of Tartu, Berlin, Zürich, Leipzig and Bern.

In 1913 he became an Estonian nationalist and wanted to play a role in the world's political arena.^[2] In 1914-1915 he informed the German government about Lenin´s plans and intended to use Bolshevik agitation to replace the Russian empire with a number of national states. 500,000 German Reichsmark was paid to Lenin by Germany using Kesküla as a conduit.^[3]

In 1918 he founded Estonian Office in Stockholm for seeking the support of the Entente states to Estonian independence. He acted in such status, until the official Estonian delegation forbade him to do that. The Estonian delegation was skeptical about Kesküla and deemed him a German agent.

Central in Keskülas thought was the region of Baltic Sea. According to Keskülas approach, Estonia had originally belonged to the Nordic region, but as a result of the German conquest in the 13th century it was included in the alien Central European cultural space. It then re-established its Nordic belonging in the 16-17th centuries and in the 18th century fell under the yoke of the even more alien Eastern European (Russian) civilization. Kesküla thought that Estonia should separate from Russia and restore its place among the Nordic countries that were becoming increasingly unified.[1]

Kesküla's secretary was a wrestler and weight-lifter Oskar Elevant.

In his latter years, Kesküla acted as a teacher in politics of several young Spanish scientists. There were rumors that Kesküla met several high Nazi official in Spain during World War II to assess the possibility of a Gross-Estland empire under the condition of Nazi proposals about Nordic unity. This has thought to be unproven until now.^[4]

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