Hans Humann (born 1878 in
Smyrna; died 7 October 1933) was an officer in the
Imperial German Navy, diplomat (
Naval Attaché) and businessman. Humann became famous as one of the main representatives of the
German Reich in the
Ottoman Empire during the
First World War, as well as the publisher of the widely circulated ''
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'' since 1920, when industrialist
Hugo Stinnes bought the paper. Humann was a key German eyewitness of the
Armenian genocide. As a personal friend and key wartime associate of
Enver Pasha
İsmail Enver, better known as Enver Pasha ( ota, اسماعیل انور پاشا; tr, İsmail Enver Paşa; 22 November 1881 – 4 August 1922) was an Ottoman military officer, revolutionary, and convicted war criminal who formed one-third ...
, he even defended the genocide in newspaper articles for DAZ during the
Weimar republic.
Biography
Early Years (1878–1913)
References
1878 births
1933 deaths
German diplomats
German mass murderers
Armenian genocide perpetrators
Imperial German collusion with war crimes by the Ottoman Empire
German expatriates in the Ottoman Empire
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