Harald Tammur (5 January 1917

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, Kavastu Parish, Tartu County – 12 May 2001

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) was an

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clergyman. Tammur studied theology at the University of Tartu between 1936 and 1940, philosophy from 1940 until 1943 and again theology in 1943. In the summer of 1943, during the German occupation of Estonia, together with two other members of the

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, he hid the first Estonian national flag from occupying forces. He was arrested in 1944 by the ''

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'', the German security police, and transferred to the Stutthof concentration camp. Released in 1945, he returned to Estonia, which was by then occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union, and was then arrested by Soviet

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officers in

the same year and placed with the

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camp system in Kemerovo Oblast in

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. After his release in 1950, he was ordained in 1954 in the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church and was the pastor of the congregation at

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from 1954 until 1979, at the same time also a pastor and teacher at

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congregation from 1965 until 1979, and the

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congregation from 1972 until 1979. From 1979 until 1997, he was the pastor in St. John's Church in Tartu, and the

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congregation from 1979 until 1995, and from 1981 until 1996, he was the provost of Tartu. He was an honorary alumnus of the

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eys.ee In 1996, he was awarded with Order of the National Coat of Arms, II class. Tammur is buried at

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in Tartu.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tammur, Harald 1917 births 2001 deaths Estonian Lutheran clergy Stutthof concentration camp survivors Gulag detainees Prisoners and detainees of the Soviet Union Recipients of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, 2nd Class University of Tartu alumni People from Peipsiääre Parish Burials at Raadi cemetery