Arveds Kārlis Kristaps Bergs (13 September 1875 Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire – 19 December 1941, Chkalov, Chkalov Oblast, Soviet Union) was a Latvian lawyer, newspaper editor and politician actively advocating establishing of an independent Latvian state and later, as the leader of National Union, member of Saeima.
During the 1905 Russian Revolution Bergs used the short period of liberalization to establish the Latvian Democratic Party together with Augusts Deglavs and Gustavs Zemgals.
Bergs used this time to absorb nationalist and independence ideas from more advanced Finns and to travel to Germany and Switzerland, where he saw different models of democracy.
In autumn of 1908 Bergs was allowed to return to Riga, where he concentrated on his work as an editor and undertook more travelling to the Middle East and Egypt.
After the proclamation of Latvian independence on 18 November 1918 by Tautas Padome, in December Bergs, as a lawyer, was appointed to head the Chamber of Courts.
[3] However, it was soon shut-down[4] and Bergs spent the remaining years until 1940 in a soft internal exile, prevented from publishing or public activities.