Vogel Abram Yakovlevich (born 1924 — Riga) - lawyer.

In 1941 Abram Fogel graduated from Secondary School No. 17 in Riga. At the beginning of the war he was evacuated to the Pervomaisky district of the Chuvash ASSR, where he worked on the Lenin collective farm. In 1941–1942 he worked as a laborer on collective farms named after Gorky and Kirov in the Andijan region.

From 1942 to 1943 he served in the 1st Separate Latvian Reserve Rifle Regiment. In 1943 he fought on the Northwestern Front as part of the 125th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 43rd Latvian Division, and in 1943–1944 on the Baltic Front. In 1944–1945 he served as a translator in the counterintelligence department of the 22nd Army, stationed in Romania.

After the war, in 1945–1946, Abram Fogel worked as a translator in the operational-investigative department of the Latvian Military District of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR in Riga. From 1946 to 1949 he worked in the operational-investigative department of the Administration for Prisoners of War and Internees under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Latvian SSR. In 1949–1950 he was a teacher at Special Facility No. 40 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Ogre. From 1950 to 1953 he worked as a translator and secretary of the Military Tribunal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Latvian SSR.

In 1952 he graduated with distinction from the Latvian branch of the All-Union Correspondence Law Institute and also attended lectures at the Evening University of Marxism-Leninism. In 1953 he was admitted to the Collegium of Advocates of the Latvian SSR and was assigned to the Viļāni legal consultation office, becoming its head in 1955. In 1959 he was transferred to Riga and appointed head of the legal consultation office of the Lenin District.

In 1963 Abram Fogel was expelled from the Collegium of Advocates for “actions discrediting the title of Soviet lawyer,” but in 1965 this decision was revised and he was considered to have resigned voluntarily. He had been a member of the Communist Party since 1951 and of the trade union of state employees since 1948. He was awarded the medals “For Combat Merit,” “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945,” and “30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy.”

His parents were killed in the Holocaust. He was married to Rakhil Vogel (born 1924), with whom he had a son, Georgii Vogel (born 1950).

Family:

Rakhil Vogel (1924) – wife
Georgii Vogel (1950) – son