Johannes Siir (11 May 1889 – 18 January 1941) 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 military colonel and sport shooter.
He was born in
Kolga
Kolga is a small borough ( et, alevik) in Kuusalu Parish, Harju County, in northern Estonia, on the territory of Lahemaa National Park. It has a population of 490 ().
Kolga is best known for its classicist manor.
Wrestler Aleksander Aberg
Al ...
Rural Municipality, Harju County. He participated in World War I and 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 ...
. In 1933 he graduated from
Tondi military school
The Estonian Military Academy ( et, Kaitseväe Akadeemia) is an institution of applied higher education for national defence in Tartu, Estonia.
The institutions mission is to train and educate regular officers for the Estonian Defence Forces ...
.
He won bronze medal at
1931 ISSF World Shooting Championships; being the first Estonian sport shooter to get a medal at world shooting championships. 1931 he was a member of Estonian national sport shooting team. 1932–1939 he was the manager of Estonian team.
References
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1889 births
1941 deaths
Estonian male sport shooters
Estonian military personnel of World War I
Estonian military personnel of the Estonian War of Independence
Recipients of the Military Order of the Cross of the Eagle, Class III
20th-century Estonian military personnel
People from Kuusalu Parish