Olga Martynovna Auguste ( Latvian: Olga Auguste ; August 2, 1896 , Viskalski Parish , Livonia Province , Russian Empire - June 29, 1973 , Riga ) - Latvian Soviet political and statesman. The first woman minister in the history of Latvia.
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Biography
Working. During the First World War in early 1915, together with the Union plant, was evacuated to Kharkov .
Since 1925 - member of the CPSU (b) . In 1934 she graduated from the Communist University of National Minorities of the West named after Markhlevsky .
Since 1935 - a member of the Communist Party of Latvia , engaged in underground party work.
Arrested in 1939. She was released in June 1940.
After the Soviet troops entered Latvia in 1940, she was elected to the Latvian People’s Diet ; later elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR.
In August of that year, she was part of a delegation that went to Moscow with a request to accept the Latvian SSR into the USSR . At a historic meeting of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, women of the Latvian delegation came in folk costumes, but Auguste, according to historians, basically refused to wear it.
Immediately after her release on June 21 until October 1940, she worked as a secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia , then became a member of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia (b).
From December 21, 1940 to August 26, 1944 - Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus (b) for personnel.
On March 13, 1941, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Latvian SSR, she was appointed People's Commissar of the State Audit Office (until April 29, 1941). The first woman minister in the history of Latvia.
During World War II she was in the Task Force of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia on the North-Western Front .
In 1947, she headed the commission for the creation of the new flag of the Latvian SSR .
In 1951-1957 - Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Latvian SSR.
Died in Riga. She was buried at the Forest Cemetery [1] .