Friedrich Niggol

[2] On 5 July 1940, Niggol replaced Boris Sepp as Minister of Justice in Johannes Vares' cabinet after the occupation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union.

He held this position until the cabinet was replaced by the Council of People's Commissars of the Estonian SSR on 25 August 1940.

[1] Niggol was then appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court of the Estonian SSR in January–April 1941.

[2] When Nazi Germany occupied Estonia in July 1941, Niggol remained in the country.

He was arrested by the Germans and died of tuberculosis in Tallinn Central Prison in May 1942.