Anton Palvadre
Anton Palvadre (25 March 1886 – 16 January 1942) was an Estonian lawyer and politician.
Life
[edit]Palvadre was born in Korijärve, Kreis Dorpat (now Valga Parish). In 1906 he graduated from Orthodox Theological Seminary in Riga . In 1908 he was imprisoned by the tsarist authorities for reasons of revolutionary activity in Tartu and Riga. In 1911 Palvadre graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Tartu and then worked as a lawyer. During World War I he served as a Russian officer on the front line and was in a German prison for three years.
In 1919 he became one of the leading heads of the Estonian Socialist Workers' Party.
He was an editor of the Sotsiaaldemokrat, an Estonian socialist newspaper.
The Soviet authorities arrested Palvadre on June 14, 1941, and he was deported to Russia. He was sent to a Soviet Union prison. He died in January 1942 in a "reform and labor camp" in the Sverdlovsk Oblast.
Personal life
[edit]Palvadre had five brothers. Rein Palvadre, Jaan Palvadre, Peeter Palvadre, Jakob Palvadre, Juhan Palvadre. Palvadre was married to Gerta Palvadre. The couple had two daughters, Lea and Aime. Palvadre's wife and children were deported in 1941. They lived for 15 years in the Kirov Oblast.[1]
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- 1886 births
- 1942 deaths
- People from Valga Parish
- People from Kreis Dorpat
- Eastern Orthodox Christians from Estonia
- Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Party politicians
- Estonian Socialist Workers' Party politicians
- Members of the Riigikogu, 1920–1923
- Members of the Riigikogu, 1923–1926
- Members of the Riigikogu, 1926–1929
- Members of the Estonian National Assembly
- 20th-century Estonian lawyers
- University of Tartu alumni
- Russian military personnel of World War I
- Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 1st Class
- Estonian people who died in Soviet detention
- People who died in the Gulag