Theodor Pool (8 December 1890

Piistaoja Piistaoja is a village in Tori Parish, Pärnu County Pärnu County ( et, Pärnu maakond or ''Pärnumaa''; german: Kreis Pernau) is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is situated in the south-western part of the country, on the coast of Gulf of ...

(now Tori Parish),

Kreis Pernau Kreis Pernau (''Pärnu kreis'', ''Перновский уезд'') was one of the nine subdivisions of the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northwestern part of the governorate (in present-day southwestern Esto ...

– 25 August 1942 Sverdlovsk,

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) was an

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n politician, agronomist and writer. He was a member of the Constitutional Assembly of Estonia and of the I, II,

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and

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, representing the

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. In 1919 he was Minister of Food and Agricultural Affairs and the Minister of Agriculture, from 1920 until 1929. Pool was arrested in 1941 by the

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during the first

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and placed within the

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camp system. He was executed by gunshot in Sverdlovsk Oblast the following year.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pool, Theodor 1890 births 1942 deaths People from Tori Parish People from Kreis Pernau Estonian Lutherans Estonian Labour Party politicians Agriculture ministers of Estonia Members of the Estonian Constituent Assembly Members of the Riigikogu, 1920–1923 Members of the Riigikogu, 1923–1926 Members of the Riigikogu, 1926–1929 Members of the Riigikogu, 1929–1932 Estonian agronomists Riga Technical University alumni Estonian military personnel of the Estonian War of Independence Estonian people executed by the Soviet Union People who died in the Gulag People executed by the Soviet Union by firearm 20th-century agronomists