Aleksander Aben
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Aleksander Aben (19 July 1908 Kaarma Parish (now Saaremaa Parish), Kreis Ösel – 11 October 1991 Tallinn) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of VI Riigikogu (its Chamber of Deputies). On 26 August 1939, he was removed from his position and he was replaced by Aleksander Jõeäär.[1] After years in exile in the USSR and return to Estonia he was imprisoned in 1950, then rehabilitated in 1950.
Aleksander Aben studied at the Kaarma primary school and in 1922 entered the Saaremaa Ühisgymnasium, from which he was expelled at the beginning of 1925 on charges of anti-state activities. He worked as a farm worker, in 1931 he was invited to become the secretary of the Pärnumaa committee of the National Agricultural Workers' Union. In January 1933, he moved to Tallinn as an instructor at the Estonian Workers' Education Union. From April 1934 to July 1939, he worked at the Tallinn Joint Health Insurance Fund, first as an auditor of facilities and later as deputy head of the inspection department.
Political career in Estonia
In the years 1929–1934, Aben was a member of the Estonian Socialist Workers' Party. In the spring of 1938, Aben was elected to the 1st State Council from Tallinn's 9th electoral district. On July 4, 1939, he was sentenced by the Military High Court to five years of hard labor for distributing a leaflet disparaging the president and the government. He fled to Sweden, where he lived as a political refugee until the June coup of 1940. In 1939, Aleksander Jõeäär became a substitute deputy to the First State Council instead of Aben.
