11 October] 1901 in Tuhala, Kreis Harrien, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire – 10 April 1978 in Graz, Austria) was an Estonian politician.
[2] Mäe was the head of the Directorate of the Estonian Self-Administration, which was subordinate to Reichskommissariat Ostland, during the occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany, and took part in the first investigation of the Nemmersdorf massacre.
After the war, he was interned by U.S. military occupation authorities in Germany until 1947, after which he moved to Austria.
In 1952, State Secretary Hans Ritter von Lex, thanked him for his suggestions on how to ban the German Communist Party.
[2] In 1999, the Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity concluded that by the virtue of his senior position, Mäe shared responsibility with the German authorities for all criminal actions carried out in Estonia.