On 26 July 1901, near the Riga seaside, the sixth child of the Čakste family was born: Konstantīns Jēkabs Marģers Čakste. He later became a legal scholar and professor at the University of Latvia, and during the German occupation he led the Latvian Central Council. One source preserves his sharp irony: he registered a research topic on the liability of motor-vehicle owners in Latvia, even though German officials objected that there were hardly any such owners.

Konstantīns Čakste belonged to the core of Latvia’s democratic resistance during the Second World War. The Latvian Central Council kept alive the idea of restoring the Republic of Latvia on the basis of the 1922 Constitution and prepared a 1944 memorandum signed by 188 people.