Elmar Tepp

Elmar Tepp (30 April 1913 – 11 May 1943) was an Estonian footballer. He played in 16 matches for the Estonia national football team from 1937 to 1940.^[2] He was also named in Estonia's squad for the Group 1 qualification tournament for the 1938 FIFA World Cup.^[3]

Elmar Tepp

Personal information
Full name	Elmar Leonhard Tepp[1]
Date of birth	(1913-04-30)30 April 1913
Place of birth	Tallinn, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire[1]
Date of death	11 May 1943(1943-05-11) (aged 30)
Place of death	Kalinin, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Tallinna Puhkekodu [lt]
International career
1937–1940	Estonia	17	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tepp was conscripted into the Red Army in 1941 and became a prisoner of war of the Germans during the Battle of Velikiye Luki along with teammates Heinrich Uukkivi and Richard Kuremaa. He was released in a later Soviet advance and subsequently sentenced to death by Soviet authorities, which was later commuted to a fifteen-year prison sentence. He died in prison in Kalinin, Russia in 1943.^[1]