Arvo Horm

Arvo Horm was born Arnold Horn at Vastseliina Manor,^[1][2] the son of Peeter Horn (later Horm, 1874–1946) and Amalie (Maali) Horn (née Liiv, 1879–1954). He studied economics at the University of Tartu from 1934 to 1938^[2] and graduated cum laude. He was a member of the Põhjala Estonian Students' Society [et]. He escaped to Sweden via Finland in 1943.^[1][3][4]

Horm served as the minister of economic affairs from March 1, 1963, to August 24, 1977, in the Estonian government-in-exile, after which he served as minister without portfolio. He was a member of the board of the Estonian National Foundation [et], and he was the editor of the newspaper Teataja from 1971 to 1996. He was elected to the Estonian Committee's Board of Deputies [et] in 1966, 1968, and 1970.^[1]

In 1967, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda accused Holm of attending a CIA training school in the Netherlands and then recruiting Soviet tourists in Sweden for anti-Soviet activity.^[5]