Voldemar Vöölmann (1887 – 14 June 1937) was an Estonian Communist politician who was the chairman of the city government of

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

from September 1917 to March 1918. He was elected to the Tallinn City Council as part of the

Bolshevik The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical Faction (political), faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, ...

movement, with

Jaan Anvelt Jaan Anvelt (also known by the pseudonyms Eessaare Aadu, Jaan Holm, Jaan Hulmu, Kaarel Maatamees, Onkel Kaak; in Russian or ; 18 April 1884 – 11 December 1937), was an Estonian Bolshevik revolutionary and writer. He served the Russian SFSR, ...

as a council member. He presided over Tallinn during the establishment of the first

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and the dissolution of the

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. He resigned in March 1918 after the German Empire occupied Tallinn. He was succeeded by

Erhard Arnold Julius Dehio Erhard Arnold Julius Dehio (16 January 1855 – 12 July 1940) was a Baltic German merchant and politician who was the lord mayor of Tallinn from March 1918 to 13 November 1918, with Alexander Riesenkampff as second mayor. A notable grain export ...

as the installed lord mayor. A member of the Bolshevik faction known as the Fontanniks, Vöölmann criticized Anvelt for his shortcomings during the failed uprising in 1924. After the failed uprising, Vöölmann left for the

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. He was later the deputy head of the government of the

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and the chairman of the Russian Construction Committee. He was executed on 14 June 1937, during the

Great Purge The Great Purge, or the Great Terror (), also known as the Year of '37 () and the Yezhovshchina ( , ), was a political purge in the Soviet Union that took place from 1936 to 1938. After the Assassination of Sergei Kirov, assassination of ...

. He was later portrayed by

Sulev Luik Sulev Luik (16 April 1954 – 29 June 1997) was an Estonian actor. In 1976 he graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory. 1976-1988 he worked at Noorsooteater and since 1988 at Estonian Drama Theatre. Besides theatrical roles he played also in ov ...

in the film ''Kaks päeva Viktor Kingissepa elust'' (1981).

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1887 births 1937 deaths People from the Governorate of Estonia Old Bolsheviks Communist Party of Estonia politicians Mayors of Tallinn Great Purge victims from Estonia 20th-century Estonian politicians {{Estonia-politician-stub

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