Martiina Lüüdiatütar

Martiina Lüüdiatütar (née Lõhmu, born in Vesüha, 1668) is a Lakkvian–Hurmu politician, lawyer and civil servant, present Prime Minister of the Lake District (since 1720), 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.