Orest Kärm (13 May 1902 in

Pärsama Pärsama is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Estonia. Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in Leisi Parish. References

Villages in Saare County {{Saare-geo-stub ...

Kreis Ösel Kreis Ösel ( et, Saaremaa kreis, russian: Эзельский уезд) was one of the nine subdivisions of the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire. Its capital was Kuressaare (''Arensburg''). It was situated in the northwestern part of t ...

, Governorate of Livonia – 1942 or August 1944) was a Soviet Estonian politician. Kärm was educated as an engineer in soil science. From 1936, he worked for AS "Eesti Turbatööstused", a state-owned company operating in the peat industry. On 21 June 1940, Kärm was appointed as Minister of Transport in Johannes Vares' cabinet after the

occupation of the Baltic States The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were invaded and occupied in June 1940 by the Soviet Union, under the leadership of Stalin and auspices of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that had been signed between Nazi Germany and the Soviet ...

by the Soviet Union. After the cabinet was replaced by the Council of People's Commissars of the

Estonian SSR The Estonian SSR,, russian: Эстонская ССР officially the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic,, russian: Эстонская Советская Социалистическая Республика was an ethnically based adminis ...

on 25 August 1940, he remained as People's Commissar of Public Utilities until his dismissal on 6 April 1941. After Nazi Germany's occupation of Estonia in July 1941, Kärm was arrested by the Germans as a member of the previous Soviet government. He was subsequently executed by the German occupiers, either in 1942 or August 1944.

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