Otto Tief's Government of 1944
During the several days between the retreat of German occupation forces and the onslaught of the Red Army, acting President Jüri Uluots appointed Otto Tief as Prime Minister and asked him to form a government on 18 September 1944. Tief then published a proclamation reestablishing the independence of the Republic of Estonia on the basis of legal continuity, and attempted to organise a defence of Tallinn against the invading Red Army, which pushed into the capital on 22 September 1944.
Members of the Tief government
- Otto Tief – Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Interior
- Arnold Susi – Minister of Public Education
- Johannes Klesment (escaped to Sweden, assumed office 13 January 1945) – Minister of Justice
- Kaarel Liidak (died 16 January 1945) – Minister of Agriculture
- Hugo Pärtelpoeg (died 29 April 1951) – Minister of Finance
- Voldemar Sumberg – Minister of Social Affairs
- Juhan Pikkov (died 3 September 1947) – Minister of Communications
- August Rei (in Sweden, assumed office 31 December 1944, until 9 January 1945) – Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Juhan Kaarlimäe – Minister
- Johannes Sikkar (in Sweden, from 20 April 1952) – Minister
- Artur Terras (in Sweden, from 20 April 1952) – Minister
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