Anton Palvadre (25 March 1886 – 16 January 1942) was an Estonian lawyer and politician.

Life

Palvadre was born in Korijärve, Kreis Dorpat (now Valga Parish). In 1906 he graduated from . In 1908 he was imprisoned by the tsarist authorities for reasons of revolutionary activity in Tartu and Riga. In 1911 Palvadre graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Tartu and then worked as a lawyer. During World War I he served as a Russian officer on the front line and was in a German prison for three years.

Anton Palvadre

In 1919 he became one of the leading heads of the Estonian Socialist Workers' Party.

Anton Palvadre

He was an editor of the Sotsiaaldemokrat, an Estonian socialist newspaper.

Anton Palvadre

The Soviet authorities arrested Palvadre on June 14, 1941, and he was deported to Russia. He was sent to a Soviet Union prison. He died in January 1942 in a "reform and labor camp" in the Sverdlovsk Oblast.

Personal life

Palvadre had five brothers. Rein Palvadre, Jaan Palvadre, Peeter Palvadre, Jakob Palvadre, Juhan Palvadre. Palvadre was married to Gerta Palvadre. The couple had two daughters, Lea and Aime. Palvadre's wife and children were deported in 1941. They lived for 15 years in the Kirov Oblast.

References

1886 births

1942 deaths

People from Valga Parish

People from Kreis Dorpat

Eastern Orthodox Christians from Estonia

Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Party politicians

Estonian Socialist Workers' Party politicians

Members of the Riigikogu, 1920–1923

Members of the Riigikogu, 1923–1926

Members of the Riigikogu, 1926–1929

Members of the Estonian National Assembly

20th-century Estonian lawyers

University of Tartu alumni

Russian military personnel of World War I

Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 1st Class

Estonian people who died in Soviet detention

People who died in the Gulag