Aleksander Pallas (10 September 1887 – 7 January 1939) was an Estonian lawyer and politician who was the acting deputy mayor of

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

from 13 November to 25 November 1917. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

. A lawyer in Tallinn, he worked alongside

Otto Strandman Otto August Strandman ( – 5 February 1941) was an Estonian politician, who served as prime minister (1919) and State Elder of Estonia (1929–1931). He was one of the leaders of the centre-left Estonian Labour Party, that saw its biggest supp ...

as a city councilor. He participated in the

Estonian War of Independence The Estonian War of Independence ( et, Vabadussõda, literally "Freedom War"), also known as the Estonian Liberation War, was a defensive campaign of the Estonian Army and its allies, most notably the United Kingdom, against the Bolshevik westwa ...

. Pallas was the first mayor after the

German occupation of Estonia during World War I Estonia was under military occupation by the German Empire during the later stages of the First World War. On 11–21 October 1917, the Imperial German Army occupied the West Estonian archipelago (Moonsund archipelago), including the larger isl ...

, serving as the acting deputy mayor for all of 12 days. Despite being temporary, the brief mayoralty set the stage for the building up of Tallinn as the capital of Estonia. He was succeeded by

Aleksander Hellat Aleksander Hellat (, in Tartu – 28 November 1943, in Kemerovo Oblast) was an Estonian politician and a Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. He was a member of the Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Party. After Estonia had been annexed by t ...

. He died on 7 January 1939 and was buried at Alexander Nevsky cemetery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pallas, Aleksander 1887 births 1939 deaths People from Kohila Parish People from Kreis Harrien 20th-century Estonian politicians Mayors of Tallinn 20th-century Estonian lawyers Estonian military personnel of the Estonian War of Independence

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