Mahmud Muhtar Pasha

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Mahmud Muhtar Pasha

Mahmud Muhtar Pasha (born December 6, 1866 in Constantinople , † March 15, 1935 ) was an Ottoman and Turkish general and diplomat .

Life

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Mahmud Muhtar was the son of the Grand Vizier Ahmed Muhtar Pasha . He completed his military training in İstanbul at the Military Academy (“Harbiye”) and in the German Empire . He joined on February 1, 1887 as a cadet in the 2nd Guards Regiment walk the Prussian army one, completed in 1888, the military school in Metz . On September 14, 1893, he took his leave as prime lieutenant . He then returned to the Ottoman Empire and taught at Harbiye.

He served as a colonel in the Ottoman-Greek War of 1896 and was involved in the battles at Veletsin, Çatalca and Domokos. In 1900 he represented the Ottoman Army in the major maneuvers in France. In the same year he was appointed second president of the infantry division. Muhtar Pasha was Minister of the Navy in İbrahim Hakkı Pasha's cabinet . He was commanding general of the III. Corps in the Battle of Kırkkilise as part of the Balkan Wars and was wounded several times.

Mahmud Muhtar Pascha was the Ottoman Ambassador in Berlin from April 28, 1913 to April 9, 1915 .

After the introduction of family names in Turkey, he took the name Katırcıoğlu.

His memoirs about the Balkan Wars were published in German and French in 1913.

Muhtar Pasha had a son, the well-known Turkish writer Sermet Muhtar Alus. His children also included Madame Fuat Tugay, Emine Düriy Hanim (1897–1975).

Works

  • Mahmud Muhtar Paşa: Üçüncü kolordunun ve ikinci şark ordusunun muharebatı . Kanaat, İstanbul 1912.
  • Mahmud Muhtar Pasha: My leadership in the Balkan wars of 1912 . Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-86382-700-7 (first edition: 1913, reprint of the German translation).
  • Mahmoud Moukhtar Pasha: Mon commandement au cours de la Campagne des Balkans de 1912 . Berger-Levrault, Paris / Nancy 1913 (French, translation).

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Individual notes

  1. ↑ von Bock: list of the officers of the 2nd Guard Regiment on foot. June 19, 1813– May 15, 1913. Verlag R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1913, p. 225.
  2. ↑ von Bock: list of the officers of the 2nd Guard Regiment on foot. June 19, 1813– May 15, 1913. Verlag R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1913, pp. 225-226.
  3. ↑ Winfried Becker: Frederic von Rosenberg (1874–1937): Diplomat from the late Empire to the Third Reich Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic , p. 212
predecessor Office successor
Osman Nizami Pasha Ottoman Ambassador in Berlin
April 28, 1913 to April 9, 1915 		İbrahim Hakkı Pasha
personal data
SURNAME Mahmud Muhtar Pasha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahmud Muhtar Paşa; Katirdschoglu, Mahmud Mukthar Pasha; Mahmud Hayret Paşa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman and Turkish military and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1935