Aleksander Hendrikson

Aleksander Hendrikson (23 November 1895 – 4 October 1977) was an Estonian Soviet communist politician who was the chairman of the Executive Committee of Tallinn from September 1945 to March 1961.

Hendrikson was born into a worker's family, graduated from primary school in 1910 and went to work as a student of a locksmith at a paper mill.

A member of the Estonian Communist Party since 1917, in 1918, when the German forces invaded Tallinn, he left with the Red Army on a war ship to Helsinki, volunteering to join the Baltic Fleet.

Hendrikson traveled back to Leningrad and started working as an art paint factory manager at the Department of Labor and Technical Regulation.

He was remembered as a loyal member of the Communist party and for his organizational abilities in regards to the clearing of the damage of Tallinn after the war.

[3] At the session of the Central Bank Office of the ECB in 1961, Hendrikson applied for a federal personal pension starting 1 March and the decision of the Tallinn LK Office on 29 March was to dismiss Hendrikson as chairman of the Executive Committee in connection with his retirement.