Anton Palvadre (25 March 1886 – 16 January 1942) was an Estonian lawyer and politician.

Life

Palvadre was born in

Korijärve Korijärve is a village in Valga Parish, Valga County, in southeastern Estonia. (retrieved 28 July 2021) It has a population of 51 (as of 2011) and an area of 21.3 km². Korijärve was first mentioned in 1582 as ''Korrigerwe''. The current ...

Kreis Dorpat Kreis Dorpat (''Tartu kreis'', ''Дерптский уезд'', 1893-1918 ''Юрьевский уезд'') was one of the nine subdivisions of the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northeastern part of the gover ...

(now

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). In 1906 he graduated from . In 1908 he was imprisoned by the tsarist authorities for reasons of revolutionary activity in

Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern European country's political and financial capital, Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 91,407 (as of 2021). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of ...

and

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. In 1911 Palvadre graduated from the Law Faculty of the

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

and then worked as a lawyer. During

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

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 The Estonian Socialist Workers' Party ( et, Eesti Sotsialistlik Tööliste Partei, ''ESTP'') was a political party in Estonia. History The party was established in 1925 as a merger of the Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Party and former mem ...

. 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

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. He was sent to a Soviet Union prison. He died in January 1942 in a "reform and labor camp" in the

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Personal life

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

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Palvadre, Anton 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