Martiina Lüüdiatütar
Martiina Lüüdiatütar (née Lõhmu, born in Vesüha, 1668) is a Lakkvian–Hurmu politician, lawyer and civil servant. Former Minister for the Realms (1734–1740), former Speaker of the Thing (1729–1734), former Prime Minister of the Lake District (1710–1718; 1720–1729), and previously Minister for the State of the Lake District (1710–1719). Member of the Edasi Hurmu party.
Raised by a single mother (Lüüdia Lõhmu), Martiina changed her surname at the age of 13 to Lüüdiatütar (Lüüdia's daughter) as a political act as Lüüdia's deeply religious family had disowned them due to Martiina being born outside marriage. Martiina does not know who her father is.
Martiina enrolled at the University of Vesüha in 1686. She majored in law. After graduating in 1692, she took on employment in the new civil service of Hurmu. She quickly rose in the ranks, and became chief of the legal department of the Lake District in 1697. In 1710, she was appointed Minister for the State of the Lake District in the sixth cabinet of Daniyal al-Osman. She continued in the same role through the cabinets of Patrik Djupvik and of Jamshid-e Osman. She returned to the legal department once the Cabinet of Annika Raudsepp was sworn in, where she had kept her position under leave of absence during her political decade.
After the civil conflict in Hurmu ended in 1720, new Viceroy of the Lake District, Patrik Djupvik appointed her Prime Minister of the Lake District. In 1721, she was appointed to the position after securing a majority in the Thingy once elections there had been held.
Martiina Lüüdiatütar asked the Viceroy to dissolve the Thingy on 5.III.1729, after the Thingy failed to pass an agriculture bill (as the agrarian Moderate Party refused to support the government on the matter, despite being a government party).
New elections were called for later the same year. She was elected to Speaker of the Thing. In 1734, she was appointed to the Secretariat of State as Minister for the Realms, a position she held until her retirement in 1740.
| Preceded by: Eliza Aabooð |
Minister for the State of the Lake District 1710–1718 |
Succeeded by Alar Ilves |
| Preceded by: Eliza Aabooð |
Prime Minister of the Lake District 1710–1718 |
Succeeded by Alar Ilves |
| Preceded by: Patrik Djupvik |
Prime Minister of the Lake District 1720–1729 |
Succeeded by Allan uti Gaarðsjoo |
