Johan Raid (born Johan Reinhold; 22 June 1885 – 4 July 1964) 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 politician and civil servant. Raid was born in Ranna Parish (now

Peipsiääre Parish Peipsiääre Parish is a rural municipality in Tartu County, Estonia. Settlements ;Towns: Kallaste ;Small boroughs: Kasepää - Kolkja - Varnja ;Villages: Savka - Sipelga Religion Gallery Varnja.JPG, Main street of Varnja Varnja i ...

Kreis Dorpat Kreis Dorpat (''Tartu kreis'', ''Дерптский уезд'', 1893-1918 ''Юрьевский уезд'') was one of the nine subdivisions of the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northeastern part of the gover ...

, in the

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. From 1931 until 1932, he was Minister of Justice and Internal Affairs. During the German occupation of Estonia, from 1941 until 1944, Laid served as a department chief in the Directorate for Internal Affairs of the

Estonian Self-Administration Estonian Self-Administration ( et, Eesti Omavalitsus, german: Estnische Selbstverwaltung), also known as the ''Directorate'', was the puppet government set up in Estonia during the occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany. It was headed by Hjalmar M ...

Generalbezirk Estland Generalbezirk Estland (General District Estonia) was one of the four administrative subdivisions of '' Reichskommissariat Ostland'', the 1941-1945 civilian occupation regime established by Nazi Germany for the administration of the three Baltic co ...

. In 1944, as the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

was approaching, Laid fled to Sweden. He died in

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in 1964, aged 79.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Raid, Johan 1885 births 1964 deaths People from Peipsiääre Parish People from Kreis Dorpat Estonian Lutherans Farmers' Assemblies politicians Government ministers of Estonia Justice ministers of Estonia Estonian Self-Administration Estonian World War II refugees Estonian emigrants to Sweden