Gottlieb Ast

{{Short description|Estonian politician (1874–1919)}}

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|office1 = Mayor of Tallinn

|term_start1 = June 1919

|term_end1 = July 1919

|predecessor1 = Anton Uesson

|successor1 = Anton Uesson

|birth_date = {{birth date|1874|3|2|df=y}}

|birth_place = Orava, Kreis Werro, Governorate of Livonia

|death_date = {{death date and age|1919|12|15|1874|3|2|df=y}}

|death_place = Tallinn, Estonia

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Gottlieb Jaan Ast (2 March 1874 – 15 December 1919) was an Estonian politician who was the mayor of Tallinn from June to July 1919.

Ast graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tartu in 1906. Afterwards, he became involved in politics and was active in southern Estonia as a socialist agitator. After the failed 1905 Russian Revolution, he emigrated to Switzerland in 1906 and to Dresden, Germany, and later the United States, but returned to Estonia after the February Revolution.{{cite news|url=http://forte.delfi.ee/news/ajalugu/valimised-tallinnas-1919-aastal-linnapeaks-valitud-gottlieb-ast-suri-aasta-lopus-tiisikusse?id=79526082|title=Valimised Tallinnas: 1919. aastal linnapeaks valitud Gottlieb Ast suri aasta lõpus tiisikusse|access-date=13 June 2018|date=18 September 2017|publisher=Forte|last=Suurkask|first=Heiki|language=Estonian}} After returning to Estonia, he joined the Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Party and was elected as a representative of the party to the Tallinn City Government and was later the mayor of Tallinn, where he served for one month, from June to July 1919. He died of tuberculosis in December 1919 and was buried in Rahumäe cemetery.Eesti Biograafiline Leksikon K./Ü. Loodus, Tartus, 1926-1929 His younger brother was politician and writer Karl Ast.{{cite web|url=https://www.kalmistud.ee/g58/haudi?action=hauaplats&filter_hauaplats_kalmistu=24&filter_hauaplats_hauaplats=66286|title=Hauaplatsi kasutajale|access-date=13 June 2018|publisher=Haudi Kalmistute Register|language=Estonian|archive-date=13 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613234309/https://www.kalmistud.ee/g58/haudi?action=hauaplats&filter_hauaplats_kalmistu=24&filter_hauaplats_hauaplats=66286|url-status=dead}}