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Veimeri A.
(Arnold Veimer, 1903-1977)
Communist – oxymoronically – economist. Head of the Stalinist puppet state (1944-1951). Enabled the 1949 ‘March Deportation’ of some 20,000 mainly women, children, infants and babies critical of the regime to Siberia. Awarded “Hero of Socialist Labor” in 1973, Order of Lenin three times, etc. Soviet occupation renaming (1981-1995) of Kivila.
Luise (Luise)
After the nearby summer estate called Luisental, after Louise von Steinheil, owner in 1791. By this time, France was on its 16th King Louis, and the name had had plenty of time to become fashionable.
Lembitu (Lembit[u])
Lembit of Lehola: Estonian leader in fight against German Brethren of the Sword, died during Battle of St. Matthew’s Day, September, 1217. Poem written by Kreutzwald. The modern man’s name is without the ‘u’ in the nominative.
Lauteri A.
(Ants Lauter, 1894-1973)
Actor, “People’s Artist of the USSR”, who lived at No.8 in this street from 1960 till his death, star of famous Estonian pic: Mehed ei nuta (Men don’t cry). Part translator of Stanislavsky, and winner, lucky lad, of a Stalin Prize (1952) and Order of Lenin (1956). Lauter also means boat slip or landing stage for fishing boats (see Valguta), and its genitive is lautri, so it seems that the genitive of personal names tend to try to retain as much of the nominative as possible, perhaps to de-signify the root word (see, for example, Süda P.).
