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Estonian clergyman
Harald Tammur
(5 January 1917
Varnja
, Kavastu Parish,
Tartu County
? 12 May 2001
Tartu
) was an
Estonian
Lutheran
clergyman.
[1]
Tammur studied theology at the
University of Tartu
between 1936 and 1940, philosophy from 1940 until 1943 and again theology in 1943. In the summer of 1943, during the
German occupation of Estonia
, together with two other members of the
Estonian Students' Society
, he hid the first Estonian national flag from occupying forces. He was arrested in 1944 by the
Sicherheitspolizei
, the German security police, and transferred to the
Stutthof concentration camp
.
[2]
Released in 1945, he returned to Estonia, which was by then
occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union
, and was then arrested by Soviet
NKVD
officers in
Tartu
the same year and placed with the
gulag
camp system in
Kemerovo Oblast
in
Siberia
.
[2]
After his release in 1950, he was ordained in 1954 in the
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
and was the pastor of the congregation at
Noo
from 1954 until 1979, at the same time also a pastor and teacher at
Rannu
congregation from 1965 until 1979, and the
Elva
congregation from 1972 until 1979. From 1979 until 1997, he was the pastor in
St. John's Church
in Tartu, and the
Kambja
congregation from 1979 until 1995, and from 1981 until 1996, he was the provost of Tartu.
[1]
He was an honorary alumnus of the
Estonian Students' Society
.
[3]
In 1996, he was awarded with
Order of the National Coat of Arms
, II class.
[4]
Tammur is buried at
Raadi Cemetery
in Tartu.
[5]
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