{{Short description|Estonian politician (1898–1941)}} {{use dmy dates|date=June 2018}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Kristjan Seaver |image = Kristjan Seaver.jpg |image_upright = |caption = Kristjan Seaver as a prisoner at Tallinn Central Prison |office1 = Chairman of the Executive Committee of Tallinn |term_start1 = 17 January 1941 |term_end1 = 24 August 1941 |predecessor1 = Aleksander Kiidelmaa |successor1 = Artur Terras <small>(as mayor)</small> |birth_date = 1898 |birth_place = |death_date = 28 August 1941 (age 42–43) |death_place = Gulf of Finland |party = Communist Party of Estonia |spouse = |children = |alma_mater = }}
'''Kristjan Seaver''' (1898 – 28 August 1941) was an Estonian Communist politician who was the chairman of the executive committee of Tallinn from 17 January to 24 August 1941. He initially was a member of the Ravila branch of the Bolsheviks. He later was involved in the October Revolution in Estonia, and was a planner of the failed 1924 uprising in Estonia. For his part, he was arrested in September 1925 and was sentenced to life in prison. He was later granted amnesty in 1940 and later participated in the Soviet takeover of Estonia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dea.digar.ee/cgi-bin/dea?a=d&d=paevalehtew19400622-165.2.15|title=Päewaleht, nr. 165, 22 June 1940|access-date=13 June 2018|date=22 June 1940|publisher=Päevaleht (1905 version; via DIGAR Eesti artiklid)|language=et}}</ref> Seaver later became the chairman of the executive committee of Tallinn from 17 January to 24 August 1941. He disbanded all representational authority.<ref>{{cite book|author=Tallinn City Office|date=2011|title=Tallinna kommunaalmajandus 1940-2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TrIMRX5zKGg|location=Tallinn|publisher=Tallinn City Office|page=24}}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://forte.delfi.ee/news/ev100nadalat/tallinna-valimised-enne-soda-kommunistidelt-voeti-voit-kaest-vapsidelt-voeti-voit-kaest?id=75172505|title=Tallinna valimised enne sõda: kommunistidelt võeti võit käest, vapsidelt võeti võit käest|access-date=13 June 2018|date=27 July 2016|publisher=Forte|last=Suurkask|first=Heiki|language=et}}</ref> After he resigned on 24 August, on 28 August, he evacuated Tallinn with a number of representatives of other Soviet authorities due to the Nazi German invasion of Tallinn. He was killed when the Baltic Fleet ship he was in, the destroyer ''Yakov Sverdlov'', hit a naval mine in the Gulf of Finland and sank.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kultuur.elu.ee/ke530_Ojalo.htm|title=Tallinna lahing 1941 Röövel päästab röövli käest|access-date=13 June 2018|date=2002|publisher=Kultuur ja Elu|last=Ojalo|first=Hannu|language=et}}</ref> He was succeeded as mayor (during the Nazi occupation of Estonia) by Artur Terras.
==See also== *List of mayors of Tallinn
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Seaver, Kristjan}} Category:1898 births Category:1941 deaths Category:People from the Governorate of Estonia Category:Old Bolsheviks Category:Communist Party of Estonia politicians Category:Mayors of Tallinn Category:Soviet civilians killed in World War II Category:Deaths due to shipwreck at sea Category:20th-century Estonian politicians