Victor Neggo

Victor Neggo (24 December 1890 – 15 June 1942) was an Estonian educator, politician and diplomat. His surname was also sometimes spelt Neggu or Nego, and he was known by the forenames Aleksander-Viktor, Karl-Aleksander and Viktor Alexander Woldemar, as well as the pseudonym Jursi Sander.

Early life and education Neggo was born on 24 December 1890 in Kuressaare,

Career Neggo taught at Tartu Commercial School between 1913 and 1914, and at schools in Tallinn between 1916 and 1918, when he became office manager of the business Fr. Kangro, Neggo ja Ko. In the meantime, he was also Provincial Commissioner of Saaremaa (1918–19) and was charge d'affaires and consul to the Northwest Government in Pskov in 1919. He was subsequently Secretary at the Estonian consulate in Berlin (1919–20) and lectured at military schools between 1921 and 1923, when he continued with his business practices. Between 1925 and 1931, he prepared propaganda for the General Staff of the Estonian Defence League. He was a member of the second chamber of the Estonian National Assembly which sat in 1937. Neggo was removed from both teaching offices and arrested by the occupying Soviet authorities on 23 December 1940 in Tartu. He was sentenced to death and deported to Molotov oblast,