Mohammad Aziz Khan Explained

Honorific Prefix:Sardar
Mohammed Aziz Khan
Native Name:محمد عزیز خان
Native Name Lang:Pashto
Office1:Ambassador of Afghanistan to Germany
Monarch1:Mohammed Nadir Shah
Primeminister1:Mohammad Hashim Khan
Term Start1:1931
Term End1:6 June 1933
Predecessor1:Ghulam Siddiq Charkhi
Successor1:Allah Nawaz Khan Ghulam Faruq
Office2:Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan
Monarch2:Habibullah Khan
Term Start2:1917
Term End2:1919
Predecessor2:Mirza Ghulam Mohammad Mir Munsi
Successor2:Mahmud Tarzi
Birth Place:Dehradun, British India
Death Place:Berlin, Nazi Germany
Death Cause:Assassination
Party:Independent
Spouse:Khurshid Begum
Children:Mohammed Daoud Khan
Mohammed Naim Khan

Sardar Mohammed Aziz Khan (Pushto; Pashto: {{nq|محمد عزیز خان) (1877 – June 6, 1933) was an Afghan prince and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Emirate of Afghanistan, and as Ambassador of the Kingdom of Afghanistan to Nazi Germany, until his assassination by a gunman in Berlin. He was a member of the Musahiban Barakzai dynasty and the son of and elder half-brother of King Mohammed Nadir Shah, and father of President Mohammed Daoud Khan and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed Naim Khan.

Upon the succession of his half-brother to the throne, following the Afghan Civil War, he was appointed to the ambassadorship along with his other brothers, who all received high positions of power in return for their continued support in exile in Europe, and on the return to Afghanistan.[1]

Assassination

While on his assignment to Berlin, Aziz was killed by Sayed Kamal (born on 18 September 1900), an Afghan student of the Technische Hochschule Berlin, on the steps of the Afghan Embassy. The gunman told the Gestapo that he was discontent with the Nadir Shah regime's cooperation with the United Kingdom. Aziz's assassination came a couple of months before his half-brother, the King was also killed by a gunman in Afghanistan.[2]

The gunman was tried and sentenced to death in 1934 for the murder by Germany, and after a failed extradition attempt by the Afghan government, was executed in 1935.[3]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Barfield, Thomas. Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History. 2010. 978-0691154411. Princeton, New Jersey. 197;199.
  2. Web site: ВЫСТРЕЛЫ В БЕРЛИНЕ - ГОС. ДЕЯТЕЛИ - ЛИЦА - Фотоальбом - Страницы истории Афганистана. 2021-12-10. afg-hist.ucoz.ru.
  3. News: June 6, 1933. The assassination of an Afghan Envoy. Berliner Morning Post. December 9, 2021.