Edige Mustafa Kirimal

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Edige Mustafa Kirimal (* 1911 in Bakhchysarai , Crimea ; † April 22, 1980 in Munich ) was a Turkish politician of Crimean Tatar origin.

Life

Kirimal was born in Bakhchysarai in 1911 . His family emigrated from Poland to the Crimea in the 1910s . Kirimal attended a Tatar elementary school in Derekoy and graduated from Yalta . He studied at the Pedagogical Institute in Simferopol and fled as a result of the introduction in May 1928 execution of Weli Ibrahimov, the chairman of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Crimea , for fear of persecution on Azerbaijan and Iran in the Turkey . After a short stay in Istanbul , he emigrated to Vilnius in 1932 , where his uncle, the Mufti of Polish Muslims, lived. In 1934 he began studying at Vilnius University , which he graduated in 1939.

From 1941 he was active in Germany as a representative of the Crimean Tatars in the course of the involvement of Muslim Soviets, mostly prisoners of war, as a fighter in the Waffen SS and the Wehrmacht . In 1945, Gerhard von Mende gave him papers on behalf of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories with the title "President of the Crimean-Tatar National Central Committee" to enable him to flee Berlin and move to Munich. He received his doctorate in 1952 from the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . Kirimal worked at the Institute for the Study of the USSR and wrote for the Dergi newspaper. He died on April 22, 1980 in Munich .

Works

  • The national struggle of the Crimean Turks with special reference to the years 1917-1918. Foreword by Gerhard von Mende . Lechte, Emsdetten 1952.

literature

  • Ian Johnson: A Mosque in Munich. Nazis, the CIA, and the Muslim Brotherhood in the West. Melia, 2010 ISBN 0151014183 ; TB Mariner, 2011 ISBN 0547423179 . Both Engl. Issues are readable and searchable in online retail
    • in German: Translator Claudia Campisi, The fourth mosque. Nazis, CIA and Islamic Fundamentalism. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2011 ISBN 3608946225 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Edward A. Allworth : The Tatars of Crimea: Return to the Homeland , Duke University Press, 1997. p. 342
  2. ^ Johnson, engl. Fass. P. 274f.
personal data
SURNAME Kirimal, Edige Mustafa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Bakhchysarai , Crimea
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1980
Place of death Munich