Numan Menemencioğlu

Numan Menemencioğlu

Numan Menemencioğlu (* 1891 in Baghdad , Ottoman Empire , † February 15, 1958 in Ankara , Republic of Turkey ) was a Turkish diplomat, politician and foreign minister of the Republic of Turkey.

family

Numan Menemencioğlu was the son of the Ottoman Finance Minister Menemenlizâde Rıfat Bey. His mother Feride Hanım was the daughter of Namık Kemal . His family comes from the city of Karaisalı in the Çukurova region and rose to the Ottoman administrative level during the time of Mısırlı İbrahim Pasha . The family was then known as Melemencioğlu. With the later rise of the family, it became known as Menemenlizâde.

education

Menemencioğlu graduated from primary school in Selânik and middle school in İstanbul . He then attended the French grammar school and subsequently the Faculty of Law at the University of Lausanne . During his training he learned Arabic, Persian, French and German.

Diplomatic career

Ottoman Empire

In 1914 he became III. Secretary in the embassy of the Ottoman Empire in Vienna and later second secretary. From March 1, 1916, he was a temporary official at the embassy in Bern . On January 2, 1920 he was promoted to employee of the embassy in Bern. After the occupation of Istanbul by the victorious powers of World War I, he was relieved of his office, as were all officials of the Foreign Ministry.

Republic of Turkey

On January 20, 1923 Menemencioğlu was appointed second secretary of the embassy in Bern. On June 16, 1923 he was promoted to first secretary of the representation in Bucharest and on November 1, 1926 appointed chargé d'affaires of the embassy in Bucharest . On June 14, 1927 he got the post of consul general of the embassy in Beirut . On June 1, 1928, he was appointed General Director of Directorate I in the Foreign Ministry, and on June 1, 1929, he was appointed Ambassador of the First Class to the State Secretariat of the Foreign Ministry. On June 11, 1933 Menemencioğlu was appointed Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the rank of Ambassador.

In the mid-term elections of April 5, 1937, he was elected member of the Gaziantep Province in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey . Until December 1, 1937, he remained a deputy and political state secretary of the Foreign Ministry. After the political state secretariats were abolished Menemencioğlu was again Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry from December 2, 1937 to August 9, 1942. Between August 10, 1942 and June 15, 1944, Menemencioğlu was foreign minister in the Saracoğlu government . During his tenure, the German Reich was kept under special observation in order to prevent a possible attack on Turkey and, if necessary, to repel it.

In 1942, the surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch , commissioned by Hitler, flew to Turkey to treat the Foreign Minister, whom he had previously operated on. According to Sauerbruch's biography, two operations were performed in Ankara.

On November 30, 1944, Menemencioğlu was appointed ambassador to Paris . On June 13, 1949, he was appointed ambassador to Lisbon . He retired in November 1956. In the parliamentary elections of 1957 he was elected MP for the province of İstanbul . He died on February 15, 1958.

Web links

• Newspaper article about Numan Menemencioğlu in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff: That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; used: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, pp. 409–415.