Mohammad Aziz Khan

Sardar Mohammed Aziz Khan (Pashto: 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 older half-brother of King Mohammed Nadir Shah, and father of President Mohammed Daoud Khan and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed Naim Khan.

Mohammed Aziz Khan
محمد عزیز خان
Ambassador of Afghanistan to Germany
In office
1931  6 June 1933
MonarchMohammed Nadir Shah
Prime MinisterMohammad Hashim Khan
Preceded byGhulam Siddiq Charkhi
Succeeded byAllah Nawaz Khan Ghulam Faruq
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan
In office
1917–1919
MonarchHabibullah Khan
Preceded byMirza Ghulam Mohammad Mir Munsi
Succeeded byMahmud Tarzi
Personal details
Born1877 (1877)
Dehradun, British Raj
Died6 June 1933(1933-06-06) (aged 55–56)
Berlin, Nazi Germany
Manner of deathAssassination
Political partyIndependent
SpouseKhurshid Begum
ChildrenMohammed Daoud Khan
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, he was killed by Sayed Kamal (born on 18 September 1900), an Afghan student of the Technical University of Berlin, on the steps of the Afghan Embassy. The gunman claimed, after being interrogated by the Gestapo, that his motive was discontent with cooperation of the Nadir Shah's regime with the United Kingdom. His 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

References

  1. Barfield, Thomas (2010). Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History. Princeton, New Jersey. pp. 197, 199. ISBN 978-0691154411.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. "ВЫСТРЕЛЫ В БЕРЛИНЕ - ГОС. ДЕЯТЕЛИ - ЛИЦА - Фотоальбом - Страницы истории Афганистана". afg-hist.ucoz.ru. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
  3. "The assassination of an Afghan Envoy". Berliner Morning Post. June 6, 1933. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
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