Herberts Bērtulsons

In addition to participating in alpine skiing, Herberts Bērtulsons worked as an employee of the political administration of the Latvian police. Bērtulsons competed in the combined event at the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Olympics where he completed the downhill element but did not finish in the slalom. Following the occupation of Latvia in 1940 he was arrested and deported to a Soviet prison camp. He spent the next two years in the camp before the NKVD sentenced him to death by firing squad in February 1942.