Elmar Tepp | |
Fullname: | Elmar Leonhard Tepp |
Birth Date: | 30 April 1913 |
Birth Place: | Tallinn, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire[1] |
Death Place: | Kalinin, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Nationalteam1: | Estonia |
Nationalyears1: | 1937–1940 |
Nationalcaps1: | 17 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
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.