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Henn-Ants Kurg

Henn-Ants Kurg

Estonian military personnel and diplomat


Henn-Ants Kurg (until 1935 Hans Kurg; 17 October 1898 – 31 July 1943) was an Estonian Colonel and a diplomat.

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Early life

Hans Kurg was born in Tallinn in 1898. Tõnu Kurg, his father, was a merchant from Lehtse Parish, and Cäcilie Marie Aitian from Haljala. He studied at Tallinn Alexander Gymnasium in 1906–1916.

Kurg was the last Estonian military attaché to France before the Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1940. Estonians living in Finland formed the Erna long-range reconnaissance group, a Finnish Army unit of Estonian volunteers; Kurg was the platoon commander.[1]

After an unsuccessful operation in Tallinn, he died in a military hospital on 28 December 1943. He was buried on 4 January 1944, in Metsakalmistu, Tallinn.[2][3]

Personal life

Hans Kurg married Marta Baumann in 1927, with whom he had two sons Peet-Rein (1928) and Ivo-Mart (1931).

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References

  1. Jõgi, Ülo. "Birth of the ERNA-organization and its operations in 1941". ERNA Society. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
  2. "Eesti biograafiline andmebaas ISIK". www2.kirmus.ee. Archived from the original on 2007-02-19. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  3. "Tallinna Metsakalmistu, V, 1, 279, 8-kohaline kirstuplats". Haudi: Kalmistute register (in Estonian). 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2022.

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