About Hugo Kukke
Lived 1898 – 1942 (aged 44). Hugo Kukke was an Estonian politician, civil servant and journalist.
Hugo Villi Kukke (1 March 1898, in Pala Parish (now Peipsiääre Parish), Kreis Dorpat – 3 August 1942, Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR) was an Estonian politician and newspaper editor. He was a member of the IV Riigikogu and V Riigikogu.
From 1932 until 1933, he was Minister of Education and Social Affairs. Following the Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1940, Kukke was arrested in Tallinn in 1941 and sentenced to death by a military tribunal of the USSR. He was executed in Sverdlovsk in 1942.
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Who was Hugo Kukke?
Estonian politician and journalist (1898-1942)
When was Hugo Kukke born?
Hugo Kukke was born on 1 March 1898 in Pala Rural Municipality.
When did Hugo Kukke die?
Hugo Kukke died on 3 August 1942 in Yekaterinburg.
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Hugo Kukke was a politician, civil servant and journalist.
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Hugo Kukke was Estonian.
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