# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-kruus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:37:26.309Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-kruus"
name: "Hans Kruus"
slug: "hans-kruus"
description: "Hans Johannes Kruus was an Estonian historian, academic and politician. As well as sitting in the Estonian parliament and the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR, he was Deputy Prime Minister of Estonia in 1940 and Foreign Minister of the Estonian SSR between 1944 and 1950. He was also Rector of the University of Tartu in 1940–41 and in 1944."
tagline: "Estonian historian and politician (1891-1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hans_Kruus%2C_1920s.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1891-10-22"
deathDate: "1976-06-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.34
  momentum:             1.132075471698113
  historical:           7.004248
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81_%D0%9A%D1%80%D1%83%D1%83%D1%81"
    title: "Ганс Круус"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "هانس كروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kruus"
    title: "Hans Kruus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kruus"
    title: "Hans Kruus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kruus"
    title: "Hans Kruus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kruus"
    title: "Hans Kruus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kruus"
    title: "Hans Kruus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D1%83%D1%83%D1%81%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Круус, Ханс Хансович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4242571"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump