Eduard Alver (15 March 1886, Valga – 15 August 1939,

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) was an

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 Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n lawyer, policeman, politician, and the Commander of the

Estonian Defence League The Estonian Defence League ( et, Eesti Kaitseliit) is the name of the unified paramilitary armed forces of the Republic of Estonia. The Defence League is a paramilitary A paramilitary is an organization whose structure, tactics, training, ...

(''Kaitseliit'') during 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 ...

. 1906-1911 he studied medicine at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

, and he also studied law at

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 ...

, received his master's degree in law at

Moscow 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 ...

. From 4 April 1919 to 24 October 1919, he was the Commander of the

. From 1935 until 1936, he was the executive director of Eesti Kultuurfilm. Alver died in 1939 and was buried in Liiva Cemetery in Tallinn. Alver's grandson

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and great-granddaughter

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later both became

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.Even further from Russia: what is known about the new head of the Estonian government
Europeeska Pravda, 26 January 2021

Awards

* 1929:

Order of the Cross of the Eagle The Order of the Cross of the Eagle ( et, Kotkaristi teenetemärk; french: Ordre de la Croix de l'Aigle) was instituted in 1928 by the Estonian Defence League to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Estonian independence. It was adopted as a sta ...

, II class.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Alver, Eduard 1886 births 1939 deaths 20th-century Estonian lawyers Estonian police officers Estonian military personnel Estonian military personnel of the Estonian War of Independence 20th-century Estonian politicians Recipients of the Military Order of the Cross of the Eagle, Class II University of Tartu alumni Moscow State University alumni People from Valga, Estonia Burials at Liiva Cemetery