Personal information | |||
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Full name | Elmar Leonhard Tepp [1] | ||
Date of birth | 30 April 1913 | ||
Place of birth | Tallinn, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire [1] | ||
Date of death | 11 May 1943 | (aged 30)||
Place of death | Kalinin, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
Tallinna Puhkekodu | |||
International career | |||
1937–1940 | Estonia | 17 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Elmar Tepp (30 April 1913 – 11 May 1943) was an Estonian footballer. He played in 16 matches for the Estonia national football team from 1937 to 1940. [2] He was also named in Estonia's squad for the Group 1 qualification tournament for the 1938 FIFA World Cup. [3]
Tepp was conscripted into the Red Army in 1941 and became a prisoner of war of the Germans during the Battle of Velikiye Luki along with teammates Heinrich Uukkivi and Richard Kuremaa. He was released in a later Soviet advance and subsequently sentenced to death by Soviet authorities, which was later commuted to a fifteen-year prison sentence. He died in prison in Kalinin, Russia in 1943. [1]
Personal information | |||
---|---|---|---|
Full name | Elmar Leonhard Tepp [1] | ||
Date of birth | 30 April 1913 | ||
Place of birth | Tallinn, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire [1] | ||
Date of death | 11 May 1943 | (aged 30)||
Place of death | Kalinin, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
Tallinna Puhkekodu | |||
International career | |||
1937–1940 | Estonia | 17 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Elmar Tepp (30 April 1913 – 11 May 1943) was an Estonian footballer. He played in 16 matches for the Estonia national football team from 1937 to 1940. [2] He was also named in Estonia's squad for the Group 1 qualification tournament for the 1938 FIFA World Cup. [3]
Tepp was conscripted into the Red Army in 1941 and became a prisoner of war of the Germans during the Battle of Velikiye Luki along with teammates Heinrich Uukkivi and Richard Kuremaa. He was released in a later Soviet advance and subsequently sentenced to death by Soviet authorities, which was later commuted to a fifteen-year prison sentence. He died in prison in Kalinin, Russia in 1943. [1]