Education
In 1915 Tammer graduated from Tallinn Commerce School and joined the Sports Association Kalev.
In 1915 Tammer graduated from Tallinn Commerce School and joined the Sports Association Kalev.
As an athlete he competed in the shot put at the 1920 and 1924 Olympics and placed sixth and twelfth, respectively. He served as the Olympic flag bearer for Estonia in 1920, and as a representative of the Estonian Olympic team in 1928 and 1936. Next year he placed within the podium at the Russian championships in shot put, discus throw and hammer throw.
After demobilization, from 1921 to 1928 he edited the Estonian sports newspaper Eesti Spordileht, and in 1923-1933 was a journalist and in 1933–1940 Editor-in-Chief of Eesti Päevaleht.
Tammer studied law and diplomacy at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris in 1931-1933. In 1940 he briefly worked as editor of the magazine Revue Baltique.
Next year he was accused of spying for the Estonian Defence Forces and deported to Russia. He died in 1942 in a Gulag prison camp near Sukhobezvodnoye station in Semyonovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.
Soon after that he volunteered to fight in World War I and Estonian War of Independence as member of the Estonian Defence Leagues Kalevi Malev Brigade in Tallinn. In 1928-1940 he was a board member of Estonian Journalists Union, and in 1934-1935 headed the Baltic Journalists Union. He was also a board member of the Estonian National Olympic Committee in 1933-1940, and of the Estonian Parliament in 1937-1940.