Helmi Press-Jansen

Helmi Press-Jansen was an Estonian journalist, translator and social democratic politician.
She was a member of the Estonian Constituent Assembly. She was one of the organisers of the Estonian demonstration in Petrograd in 1917, which demanded autonomy For Estonia. Press-Jansen was a women's rights activist and a board member of the Union of Estonian Women's Organizations from 1923 to 1930. From 1919, a member of the first board of the Estonian Journalists' Union and 1940–41 commissar of the Tallinn Jewish Union Bank.