Karl-Johannes Soonpää (born Karl-Johannes Soonberg; 2 March 1895 in Pangodi Parish (now Kambja Parish), Kreis Dorpat – 15 June 1944 near Elva, Estonia) was an Estonian politician and civil servant.
[1] Soonpää participated in the Estonian War of Independence as a lieutenant and received the Cross of Liberty for his service.
He also served as the Minister of Labour for a year, from 1927 until 1928, the Minister of Agriculture from 1928 until 1929 and the State Auditor from 1929 until 1940.Political offices:[1] He was one of the few high-ranking statesmen who escaped the June deportation by Soviet authorities following the Soviet occupation of Estonia.
Early on the morning of 14 June 1941, he learned from acquaintances that a large number of suspicious railway wagons had been brought to the Elva railway station.
Soonpää fled on his bicycle, and his wife Antonie left the family farm with the children.