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Vilhelms Munters (July 25, 1898 in Rīga to January 11, 1967 in Rīga) was the last prime minister of the first Latvian Republic, from July, 1936 until June 16, 1940, when he effectively resigned his post as the illegitimately installed Latvian S.S.R. dissolved the Cabinet of Ministers. He was deported to Voronezh in the U.S.S.R. that same day.

Munters served in the Russian army in 1917. In 1918 he returned to Latvia and in 1919 he joined the Estonian army. In October, 1920, he was released and returned to Latvia, where he finished his studies, graduating from the University of Latvia in 1925 with a degree in Chemistry.

His tenure in the Foreign Ministry encompassed nearly two decades:
 * from December, 1920 he was Third, Second, then First Secretary of the Foreign Ministry Information Division