Heiki Kranich

Heiki Kranich was an Estonian politician. He was member of the Estonian parliament in 1992–1999 and 2019–2023.

Life and career

Kranich was born in 1961, in Haapsalu, then Soviet-occupied Estonia. In 1991, he graduated from the State University of Telecommunications in Leningrad where he specialized in telecommunications engineering.
In 1994, he served as the Minister of Finance of Estonia in the first cabinet of prime minister Mart Laar and from 1999-2003 as the Minister of the Environment in the second cabinet of prime minister Mart Laar and the cabinet led by prime minister Siim Kallas.
Between 1983 and 1991, he worked as a mechanic and the head of the Haapsalu Division at the state-owned telephone network. From 1991 to 1992, he was head of the Haapsalu branch of the West Estonian Bank.
Kranich was a founding member of the Estonian [Liberal Democratic Party] in 1990. After the Estonian Liberal Democratic Party merged into the Estonian Reform Party in 1994, Kranich remained a member of the merged party until his death in 2026. He served as Secretary General of the Estonian Reform Party from 1995 to 1999.
Kranich died on 13 January 2026, at the age of 64.