Alfrēds Birznieks (13 February 1889 – 28 April 1942) was a Latvian politician and lawyer. He was the acting

Minister of the Interior An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...

of the Republic of Latvia from 6 September 1919 to 8 December 1919, and the Minister of the Interior from 20 June 1923 to 8 May 1924. After the

Soviet occupation of Baltic states The occupation of the Baltic states was a period of annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union from 1940 until its dissolution in 1991. For a period of several years during World War II, Nazi Germany occupied the Baltic st ...

he was imprisoned in

Usollag Usollag, full name: Usolye Corrective Labor Camp () was a Gulag forced labor camp established on February 5, 1938 and functioned after the dissolution of Gulag, until 1960. It was headquartered in Solikamsk, now in Perm Krai, Russia, and it had nu ...

forced labor camp,Alfrēds Birznieks
/ref> was sentenced to death there, but died before the execution.

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1889 births 1942 deaths People from Dobele Municipality People from Dobele county Democratic Centre (Latvia) politicians Ministers of the interior of Latvia Deputies of the 1st Saeima 20th-century Latvian lawyers Moscow State University alumni Latvian people who died in Soviet detention People who died in the Gulag {{Latvia-politician-stub