Henn-Ants Kurg

Henn-Ants Kurg
Birth name	Hans Kurg
Born	(1898-10-17)17 October 1898 Tallinn, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire
Died	28 December 1943(1943-12-28) (aged 45) Tallinn Military Hospital, Tallinn
Buried	Metsakalmistu, Tallinn
Allegiance	Russian Empire Estonia Nazi Germany Finland
Awards	See Awards

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

Early life

Hans Kurg was born in Tallinn in 1898. Tõnu Kurg (1859–1900), his father, was a merchant from Lehtse Parish, and his mother Cäcilie Marie Aitian (1864–1944) was from Haljala. He studied at Tallinn Alexander Gymnasium from 1906 to 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).

Awards

• French Croix de guerre (1919)
• Latvian Order of Lāčplēsis, V Class (1925)
• Finnish White Rose Class I Knight (1925)
• Estonian Order of the Cross of the Eagle, III Class (1936)
• German State Iron Cross I and II^[4]

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.
4. "Postimees (1886-1944) 12 veebruar 1944 — DIGAR Eesti artiklid". dea.digar.ee. Retrieved 2022-04-21.