Artur Terras (18 February 1901 – 23 November 1963) was an Estonian lawyer and politician who was the 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 24 August 1941 to September 1944. His older brother was former Estonian State Secretary Karl Terras. After being deported in 1941, he was a

Forest Brothers The Guerrilla war in the Baltic states was an armed struggle which was waged by the Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian partisans, called the Forest Brothers (also: the "Brothers of the Wood" and the "Forest Friars"; et, metsavennad, lv, mež ...

guerrilla fighter in

Vihasoo Vihasoo is a village in Kuusalu Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia, on the territory of Lahemaa National Park. It is situated around the mouth of the Loobu River to the Eru Bay Eru Bay ( et, Eru laht, also et, Mungalaht) is bay in Kuusa ...

, eventually becoming the commander of the North Estonian

Omakaitse The Omakaitse ('home guard') was a militia organisation in Estonia. It was founded in 1917 following the Russian Revolution. On the eve of the Occupation of Estonia by the German Empire the Omakaitse units took over major towns in the country a ...

. He was the mayor of Tallinn during the majority of

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, being mayor while Estonia was occupied by Nazi German forces. He assumed numerous titles, including mayor, lord mayor and first mayor (''Erster Bürgermeister''). He resigned in September 1944 after the

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reconquered Estonia. He was succeeded by

Aleksander Kiidelmaa Aleksander Kiidelmaa (26 September 1896 – 16 August 1969) was an Estonian trade unionist and Communist politician who was the mayor of Tallinn from July 1940 to January 1941, and again (as the chairman of the Executive Committee of Tallinn) f ...

as chairman of the Executive Committee of Tallinn. He eventually fled to Sweden and became a minister without portfolio of prime minister

Otto Tief Otto Tief ( – 5 March 1976) was an Estonian politician, military commander (during the Estonian War of Independence), and a lawyer. Tief was the acting prime minister of the last government of Estonia

from 20 April 1952. He died on 23 November 1963 in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Terras, Artur 1901 births 1963 deaths People from Narva-Jõesuu People from the Governorate of Estonia 20th-century Estonian politicians Mayors of Tallinn Estonian anti-communists Estonian independence activists Soviet dissidents Estonian World War II refugees

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