Hugo Villi Kukke (1 March 1898, in Pala Parish (now

Peipsiääre Parish Peipsiääre Parish is a rural municipality located in the Tartu County, Estonia. The municipality of Peipsiäere was formed as a result of the administrative reform on 23 October 2017. Peipsiääre Parish area covers 652 square km and records a ...

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– 3 August 1942, Sverdlovsk,

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) was an

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n politician and newspaper editor. He was a member of the

IV Riigikogu IV Riigikogu was the fourth legislature of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu). The legislature was elected after 1929 Estonian parliamentary election, 1929 elections (held on 11–13 May 1929). It sat between 15 June 1929 and 14 June 1932, befor ...

and

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. From 1932 until 1933, he was Minister of Education and Social Affairs. Following the

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in 1940, Kukke was arrested in

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in 1941 and sentenced to death by a military tribunal of the USSR. He was executed in Sverdlovsk in 1942.

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1898 births 1942 deaths Politicians from Peipsiääre Parish People from Kreis Dorpat Estonian People's Party politicians National Centre Party (Estonia) politicians Patriotic League (Estonia) politicians Education and Social affairs ministers of Estonia Members of the Riigikogu, 1929–1932 Members of the Riigikogu, 1932–1934 Members of the Estonian National Assembly Members of the Riigivolikogu 20th-century Estonian lawyers University of Tartu alumni Estonian military personnel of the Estonian War of Independence Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 2nd Class Estonian people executed by the Soviet Union Estonian Gulag detainees {{Estonia-1932-Riigikogu-politician-stub