Olga Lauristin | |
Birth Name: | Olga Künnapuu |
Party: | Communist Party of Estonia |
Alma Mater: | University of Tartu |
Death Place: | Tartu, Estonia |
Birth Place: | Kolga Parish (now Kuusalu Parish), Kreis Harrien, Governorate of Estonia |
Birth Date: | 28 April 1903 |
Spouse: | Johannes Lauristin Hendrik Allik |
Children: | Marju Lauristin Jaak Allik |
Awards: | Order of the Red Banner of Labour Order of Friendship of Peoples Order of the October Revolution |
Olga Lauristin (née Künnapuu; 28 April 1903 Kolga Parish (now Kuusalu Parish), Kreis Harrien – 25 June 2005[1]) was a Soviet Estonian politician.[2]
From 1944 until 1947, she was minister of social welfare.[2] Her first husband was the politician Johannes Lauristin and her daughter was the politician and media researcher Marju Lauristin. She later married Hendrik Allik in 1945, and the couple had a son, the theatre critic and director and politician Jaak Allik in 1946. The couple remained married until Allik's death in 1989.[3]