Estonian politician and feminist
Helmi Press-Jansen |
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Born | (1889-03-15)15 March 1889
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Died | 5 March 1960(1960-03-05) (aged 70)
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Occupation(s) | Politician, feminist |
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Helmi Press-Jansen (15 March 1889 – 5 March 1960) was an Estonian journalist, translator and social democratic politician.
She was a member of the Estonian Constituent Assembly.[1] She was one of the organisers of the Estonian demonstration in Petrograd in 1917, which demanded autonomy For Estonia. Press-Jansen was a women's rights activist and a board member of the Union of Estonian Women's Organizations from 1923 to 1930. From 1919, a member of the first board of the Estonian Journalists' Union and 1940–41 commissar of the Tallinn Jewish Union Bank.[2]
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