Tõnis Rotberg

Tõnis Rotberg (9 September 1882 in Viljandi Parish, Kreis Fellin, Governorate of Livonia – 24 July 1953 in Tayshet, Russian SFSR) was an Estonian general.

On 21 June 1940, he was appointed Minister of War 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.

After the Soviet Union re-occupied the Baltic states in September 1944, Rotberg was arrested by the NKVD in Tallinn.

He was accused of participating in hostilities against the Red Army in 1919, of surrender to the Wehrmacht without resistance in 1941, and of living in German-occupied Estonia without taking up arms against the occupiers after his release from captivity.

Tõnis Rotberg.