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
Governorate of Livonia
The Governorate of Livonia, also known as the Livonia Governorate, was a Baltic governorate of the Russian Empire, now divided between Latvia and Estonia.
Geography
The shape of the province is a fairly rectangular in shape, with a maximum ...
. 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 ...
of
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
Uppsala
Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inha ...
in 1964, aged 79.
References
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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