Artur Vader

Artur Vader ( Russian Арту́р Па́влович Ва́дер , Artur Pawlowitsch Wader ; born February 16, 1920 in Gorbowo, Vitebsk Governorate , today Wizebskaja Woblasz , Belarus ; † May 25, 1978 in Tallinn , Estonian SSR ) was a communist politician in Estonia .

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Artur Vader was born the son of a farmer of Estonian origin. From 1939 to 1941 he was a Komsomol functionary and director of a vocational school in Moshaisk near Moscow . At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he was drafted into military service and seriously wounded and demobilized near Moscow in 1942 (according to other sources, 1943 near Voronezh ) . In 1943 Vader joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). From 1943 he was employed as the deputy head of a mechanics technical college (vocational school) in Moscow, from 1945 to 1948 as director of the “All-Union Teaching Combine” of the People's Commissariat (Ministry of) the textile industry before starting his career in party work.

Due to his Estonian descent, Vader was employed in the Estonian SSR and was initially second secretary of a municipal district committee of the Communist Party of Estonia (EKP) in Tallinn, from 1950 to 1952 first secretary of the Harju district committee . From 1952 to 1959 he held the post of City Secretary of the EKP in Tallinn. In 1954 he acquired a remote degree from the Higher Party School of the Central Committee of the CPSU . From 1954 to 1958 Vader was also a member of the Revision Commission of the Estonian Communist Party.

In 1959 he moved to the apparatus of the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow, where he was an instructor in the department for party organs of the Central Committee in the Union Republics , before returning to Estonia in 1963. From January 1963 to January 1964, Vader was secretary of the Central Committee of the EKP and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Estonian SSR, at the same time chairman of the control committee of the two bodies. From 1964 to February 1971 he was the second secretary of the Central Committee of the EKP, then a member of the Central Committee of the EKP until his death in 1978. From December 22, 1970 until his death on May 25, 1978 Artur Vader was chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic and as such from 1971 also one of the deputy chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR .

Vader had been a candidate for the Central Committee of the CPSU since 1966, and in 1971 he became a member of the Central Committee. In 1972 he acquired the title of candidate for history studies (equivalent to a doctorate ).

Artur Vader is buried in the Tallinn Forest Cemetery.

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Vader wrote several non-fiction books, mostly on political issues. One of them, on Estonia's position within the Soviet Union, has also been translated into Finnish and English ( Equal among Equals , 1974).

Awards

Artur Vader was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1965 , the Order of the October Revolution in 1973 and other orders and medals. In September 1978 a school in Saku was named (today Saku High School).

Web links

• Article Artur Vader in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D002699~2a%3D~2b%3DArtur%20Vader
• Artur Vader in the online manual on the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1898–1991 (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ School history 1977–1997 ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of Saku High School (Estonian)