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 an Afghan gunman in Berlin. He was a member of the Musahiban Barakzai dynasty, a son of Mohammad Yusuf Khan [ps], elder half-brother of King Mohammed Nadir Shah, and father of President Mohammed Daoud Khan and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed Naim Khan.

Sardar Mohammed Aziz Khan
محمد عزیز خان
Ambassador of Afghanistan to Germany
In office 1931 – 6 June 1933
Monarch	Mohammed Nadir Shah
Prime Minister	Mohammad Hashim Khan
Preceded by	Ghulam Siddiq Charkhi
Succeeded by	Allah Nawaz Khan Ghulam Faruq
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan
In office 1917–1919
Monarch	Habibullah Khan
Preceded by	Mirza Ghulam Mohammad Mir Munsi
Succeeded by	Mahmud Tarzi
Personal details
Born	1877 (1877) Dehradun, British India
Died	6 June 1933(1933-06-06) (aged 55–56) Berlin, Nazi Germany
Manner of death	Assassination
Political party	Independent
Spouse	Khurshid Begum
Children	Mohammed 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, 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

• List of assassinated serving ambassadors

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. Archived from the original on December 10, 2021. Retrieved December 9, 2021.