August Ehrlich (from 1940, August Eerme; 23 September 1893 – 1 September 1942) was an Estonian agronomist and politician. He was a member of the I and

II Riigikogu II Riigikogu was the second legislature of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu). The legislature was elected after 1923 elections (held on 5–7 May 1923). It sat between 31 May 1923 and 14 June 1926, before the next round of elections were held. ...

. August Ehrlich was born in Vana-Prangli, Krüüdneri Parish (now, part of Kanepi Parish, Põlva County) into a family of farmers. He attended Vana-Prangli Parish School,

Vana-Kuuste Vana-Kuuste is a village in Kambja Parish, Tartu County in eastern Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Fin ...

Ministry School and

Kambja Parish Kambja Parish is a rural municipality in Tartu County, Estonia. Settlements ;Small boroughs: Kambja - Külitse - Räni - Tõrvandi - Ülenurme ;Villages: Aakaru - Ivaste - Kaatsi - Kammeri - Kavandu - Kodijärve - Kõrkküla - Kullaga - ...

Primary School before being enrolled at the Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in 1906 and graduating in 1913. From 1913 to 1918 he studied agronomy at the University of Tartu. During World War I and the Estonian War of Independence, he worked as a military supplier. Ehrlich was a member of the

Estonian Constituent Assembly The Estonian Constituent Assembly ( et, Asutav Kogu) was elected on 5–7 April 1919, called by the Estonian Provisional Government during the Estonian War of Independence. Estonian Constituent Assembly elections Activity The 120 members of t ...

and the I and II Riigikogu, representing the

Estonian People's Party The Estonian People's Party ( et, Eesti Rahvaerakond, ER) was a centre-right political party in Estonia. History The party was established in March 1919 by a merger of the Estonian Democratic Party and the Estonian Radical Democratic Party.Vin ...

. From 1918 to 1924 he managed seed growing in the father's farm in Krüüdneri Parish. In 1918, he married Magda Ruus. The couple had two daughters and a son. Following the Soviet occupation of the Estonia in 1940, he was arrested and executed in 1942 in the

Ussolye prison camp Usollag, full name: Usolye Corrective Labor Camp (russian: Усольлаг, Усольский исправительно-трудовой лагерь (Усольский ИТЛ) ) was a Gulag forced labor camp established on February 5, 1938 a ...

in Solikamsky District, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ehrlich, August 1893 births 1942 deaths People from Kanepi Parish People from Kreis Dorpat Estonian People's Party politicians Members of the Estonian Constituent Assembly Members of the Riigikogu, 1920–1923 Members of the Riigikogu, 1923–1926 Estonian agronomists Hugo Treffner Gymnasium alumni University of Tartu alumni Estonian people executed by the Soviet Union People who died in the Gulag 20th-century agronomists