Ahmed Asmi Efendi

Asmi Ahmed's audience with King Friedrich Wilhelm II in Berlin (1791)

Ahmed Asmi Efendi (also: Asmi Ahmed Efendi, Asmi Said Effendi or Asım Said Efendi ) was an Ottoman diplomat. He was the second Ottoman envoy to the Kingdom of Prussia .

Asmi was probably a brother-in-law of the first Ottoman envoy Ahmed Resmî Efendi and had probably accompanied him to Berlin as early as 1763/64 . During the Russo-Austrian Turkish War , he was first sent to Fez in 1787 . There he was supposed to get Sultan Mulai Muhammad to block the Strait of Gibraltar if the Russian Baltic Fleet had intended to advance into the Mediterranean (as it had already done in the previous war in 1770 ). The Moroccan sultan declared himself incapable of doing this (and the Russian fleet had actually sailed as far as Copenhagen), but by thatWhen Sweden entered the war in 1788, the Russian fleet could not leave the Baltic Sea anyway, whereupon Asmi first returned to Istanbul in 1788 .

After the signing of the Prussian-Ottoman military alliance, which had contributed to Austria's departure from the war, Asmi went to Berlin in November 1790 with an official embassy from Istanbul via Bucharest , Budapest , Brno , Breslau , Crossen , Frankfurt , Fürstenwalde and Köpenick , where he arrived in February 1791. He stayed in Berlin until January 1792 , when the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II cut the daily allowances from the embassy for cost reasons, without having achieved Prussia's entry into the war on the Ottoman side against Russia as agreed in the alliance treaty. Nevertheless, he was impressed by the Prussian military and civil bureaucracy in his letters and writings.

On the occasion of his visit to Berlin in 1791, various bronze and silver commemorative coins and commemorative medals were struck.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Gereon Sievernich, Hendrik Budde: Europe and the Orient 800-1900 , pages 276ff and 804-809. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Berlin 1989.
^ ^A ^b Fritz Rudolf Künker: Auction 300 - Rarities from Brandenburg-Prussia - The Gunther Hahn Collection , page 110f. Numismatischer Verlag Künker, Osnabrück 2017.
^ Karl Friedrich von Klöden : Life and government history of Friedrich Wilhelm the Third King of Prussia , page 20f. Plahn'sche Buchhandlung (Nitze), Berlin 1840.
^ Johann Wilhelm Zinkeisen : History of the Ottoman Empire in Europe - Turnaround of the Inner Life of the Ottoman Empire and Oriental Politics during the Revolutionary Period, Volume 6 (from the peace with Kutschuk Kainardsche in 1774 to the peace with France in 1802), page 811. Perthes, Gotha 1859.

personal data
SURNAME	Ahmed Asmi Efendi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ahmed Said Asmi; Achmet Asmi Effendi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ottoman diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	18th century
DATE OF DEATH	18th century or 19th century

[Europa-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Gereon Sievernich, Hendrik Budde: Europe and the Orient 800-1900 , pages 276ff and 804-809. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Berlin 1989.

[Künker-2] A ^b Fritz Rudolf Künker: Auction 300 - Rarities from Brandenburg-Prussia - The Gunther Hahn Collection , page 110f. Numismatischer Verlag Künker, Osnabrück 2017.

[Klöden-3] Karl Friedrich von Klöden : Life and government history of Friedrich Wilhelm the Third King of Prussia , page 20f. Plahn'sche Buchhandlung (Nitze), Berlin 1840.

[Zinkeisen-4] Johann Wilhelm Zinkeisen : History of the Ottoman Empire in Europe - Turnaround of the Inner Life of the Ottoman Empire and Oriental Politics during the Revolutionary Period, Volume 6 (from the peace with Kutschuk Kainardsche in 1774 to the peace with France in 1802), page 811. Perthes, Gotha 1859.