Hugo Osvald Pärtelpoeg (7 February 1899 in ,

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– 29 April 1951 in

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) was an

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n lawyer and politician. From 18 September 1944 to 22 September 1944, he was

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in Otto Tief's cabinet. On 3 July 1945, the Military Chamber of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced Hugo Pärtelpoeg to eight years in a forced labor camp (

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) and five years in Russia. Pärtelpoeg died while incarcerated in 1951.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Partelpoeg, Hugo 1899 births 1951 deaths 20th-century Estonian lawyers Finance ministers of Estonia Estonian military personnel of the Estonian War of Independence University of Tartu alumni People who died in the Gulag Estonian people who died in Soviet detention People from Jõgeva Parish