Peeter Mei

Peeter Mei
Born(1893-04-23)April 23, 1893
Liepāja, Latvia
DiedNovember 27, 1941(1941-11-27) (aged 48)
Ivdel gulag, Soviet Union
OccupationMilitary officer
FatherJohan Mey
RelativesKristine Mei, Lydia Mei, Natalie Mei

Peeter Mei (until April 8, 1935, Mey; until April 30, 1935, Peter Friedrich Eustachius; April 24, 1893 – November 27, 1941) was an Estonian military officer.[1][2]

Career

Peeter Mei graduated from the Russian Naval Cadet Corps[2][3] and was a coastal defense commander and artillery expert.[1] He served in the First World War from November 1914 to May 1916 as an officer in the coastal batteries of Peter the Great's Naval Fortress (in coastal batteries nos. 5 and 6 on Naissaar and in coastal battery no. 35 in the village of Lepiku in the southern part of Hiiumaa); from November 1915 to May 1916, he was the commander of coastal battery no. 37 in Dirhami.[2]

On August 22, 1921, he was arrested in St. Petersburg as a counter-revolutionary and an Estonian secret agent, and he was exchanged as a prisoner for Estonia on March 16, 1922. On May 9, 1922, Mei joined the Estonian Navy and served as an officer and commander of the coastal battery no. 1 on the island of Aegna until December 15, 1924. He was then appointed as an artillery officer of the Technical Department of the Naval Staff.[2] He held the rank of lieutenant senior grade (Estonian: vanemleitnant),[3] and he was promoted to captain major (Estonian: kaptenmajor) in the Estonian Navy in 1928.[1]

After the occupation of Estonia, Mei was demobilized at the end of 1940. On August 8, 1941, Mei was mobilized into the Soviet Army and sent to Leningrad.[2] He was later assigned to a labor battalion at the Ivdel gulag in the Sverdlovsk Oblast, where he died, apparently from typhus.[2]

Family

Peeter Mei was the son of the hydrographer Johan Mey.[1][3][4] His sisters were the artists Kristine Mei, Lydia Mei, and Natalie Mei.[1]

Legacy

In 2021, the Estonian Art Museum's Art Lovers' Society presented the Art Museum of Estonia with a bust of Peeter Mei created by the sculptor Anton Starkopf in the 1920s.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Mei, Peeter (1893–1941)". Eesti Entsüklopeedia. Retrieved September 30, 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Peeter Mei (1893–1941)". Hiiumaa Merenduse ja Kalanduse Teejuht. 2016. Retrieved September 30, 2025.
  3. ^ a b c Urb, Taavi (May 2019). "Mereväeohvitseride III lennu päevaraamat 01.02.1926-05.02.1927". Sõjateadlane. 11: 258. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
  4. ^ Kello, Karl (October 26, 2007). "Külapoisist pärusaadlikuks: eesti variant". Õpetajate Leht. No. 39. p. 20. Retrieved September 30, 2025.
  5. ^ "Anton Starkopf. Portrait Head of Peeter Mei". Digital Collection. Art Museum of Estonia. Retrieved September 30, 2025.
  6. ^ "Eesti pruut". Eesti Elu. No. 46. November 19, 2021. p. 12. Retrieved September 30, 2025.

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