Artur Amon

Artur "Ats" Amon (17 February 1916 – 3 September 1944)[1] was an Estonian basketball player.

[1] From 1928 onward, he played basketball, volleyball, table tennis, and athletics at the Boys' Sports Association's courses and competitions.

He was the Estonian volleyball champion in the Tartu YMCA in 1934 and the Kalev Tallinn team in 1937, 1938, and 1939.

[3][4] Following the outbreak of World War II and the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Amon joined the Finnish backed Haukka-Tümmler intelligence group of the Estonian Forest Brothers partisans as a wireless radio operator.

He was killed by gunshot by Soviet soldiers during an escape attempt in Õru Parish, aged 28.