Oskar Kask (7 January 1898, in Pärnu – 13 April 1942, in Sosva, Russia) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of the III, IV, and V Riigikogu.[1]
Kask was the mayor of Pärnu from 1924 until 1936,[2] and from 1936 until 1940, he was Minister of Social Affairs.[3]
Following the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Kask was arrested by the NKVD and executed by gunshot in the gulag in Sosva, Sverdlovsk Oblast in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1942.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Juhatus ja liikmed". Riigikogu (in Estonian). Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ^ a b Esna, Olaf (3 June 2010). "Kui pärnakad linnapea Tallinnasse ministriks saatsid". Pärnu Postimees (in Estonian). Retrieved 2 June 2021.
- ^ "APPENDIX 1.FATE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE ESTONIAN GOVERNMENTS IN 1918–1940" (PDF). mnemosyne.ee. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
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