. . . . "1072139112"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "66911838"^^ . . . . . . . "Karl-Johannes Soonp\u00E4\u00E4 (born Karl-Johannes Soonberg; 2 March 1895 in Pangodi Parish (now Kambja Parish), Kreis Dorpat \u2013 15 June 1944 near Elva, Estonia) was an Estonian politician and civil servant. Soonp\u00E4\u00E4 participated in the Estonian War of Independence as a lieutenant and received the Cross of Liberty for his service. Following the reoccupation of Estonia by the Soviets in 1944, Soonp\u00E4\u00E4 was killed in June, aged 49, when he tried to capture Soviet saboteurs with two men at night in the forest near Elva. He was buried in Elva cemetery."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "3365"^^ . . . . "Karl-Johannes Soonp\u00E4\u00E4"@en . . . . . . . . "Karl-Johannes Soonp\u00E4\u00E4 (born Karl-Johannes Soonberg; 2 March 1895 in Pangodi Parish (now Kambja Parish), Kreis Dorpat \u2013 15 June 1944 near Elva, Estonia) was an Estonian politician and civil servant. Soonp\u00E4\u00E4 participated in the Estonian War of Independence as a lieutenant and received the Cross of Liberty for his service. Soonp\u00E4\u00E4 studied at the Faculty of Religion and the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Tartu, graduating in 1926. Afterwards, he became involved in politics, joining the Settlers' Party, then after the 1932 party merger, the Union of Settlers and Smallholders. He was a member of the III, IV and V Riigikogu. He also served as the Minister of Labour for a year, from 1927 until 1928, the Minister of Agriculture from 1928 until 1929 and the State Auditor from 1929 until 1940.Political offices: He was one of the few high-ranking statesmen who escaped the June deportation by Soviet authorities following the Soviet occupation of Estonia. In the early morning of 14 June 1941, he had learned from acquaintances that a large number of suspicious railway wagons had been brought Elva railway station. Soonp\u00E4\u00E4 took fled on his bicycle and his wife Antonie left the family farm with the children. Soonp\u00E4\u00E4 gathered with other men in the forest, and joined the Forest brothers. On 22 June 1941, the men learned of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, and hid in the forest until the arrival of the Germans in July. Following the reoccupation of Estonia by the Soviets in 1944, Soonp\u00E4\u00E4 was killed in June, aged 49, when he tried to capture Soviet saboteurs with two men at night in the forest near Elva. He was buried in Elva cemetery."@en . . . . .