Otto Pohla (20 March 1899 – July 1941) was an Estonian wrestler. He competed in the men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He was killed during World War II when the ship he was on was sunk by German submarines.

Personal life

Pohla worked as a plumber. After the commencement of Operation Barbarossa, he was mobilized into the Red Army and trained in Tallinn. Whilst sailing to Leningrad for deployment, Pohla and several hundred other soldiers died when the transport ship carrying them was sunk by German submarines. Pohla and the other recruits were listed as missing in action until they were declared dead in January 1943.

Otto Pohla

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1899 births

1941 deaths

Estonian male sport wrestlers

Olympic wrestlers for Estonia

Wrestlers at the 1928 Summer Olympics

People from Kohila Parish

Soviet military personnel killed in World War II

Missing in action of World War II

Deaths due to shipwreck at sea

Plumbers

20th-century Estonian people

Otto Pohla