Hein Vergo | |
Birth Name: | Theodor Thaalmann |
Birth Date: | December 30, 1899 |
Birth Place: | Viljandi County, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire |
Death Date: | 1998 |
Nationality: | Estonian |
Occupation: | Educator |
Hein Vergo (until 1934 Theodor (also Teodor or Feodor) Taalmann (also Thaalmann);[1] December 30, 1899 – 1998) was an Estonian teacher and school principal.[2]
Hein Vergo was born in Viljandi County in the Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire.[3] In 1922, Vergo graduated from,[1] [3] [4] and he worked in the editorship of the newspaper Meie Hääl in 1922.[3] [4] From 1922 to 1924 he worked as a teacher at Vändra High School, from 1924 to 1932 as a teacher at Haljava School, and from 1932 to 1942 as the principal of Neeme Elementary School in Jõelähtme Parish.[1] From 1940 to 1941, he was the principal of the seven-year school in Haljava.[1] [5] During the Second World War, a disability prevented him from fighting, and he worked on a collective farm in the Tatar Autonomous Republic and then relocated to the Uvelsky District in the Chelyabinsk Oblast, where he taught at a school and headed an orphanage.[5] On December 20, 1944, he returned to Estonia, where he was again the principal of the school in Haljava from 1945 to 1947.[1] [5] From 1949 to 1960 he was the principal of Aruküla Basic School.[1] [6] [7]