Khatanbaatar Magsarjav

Chatanbaatar Magsardschaw (Mongolian Хатанбаатар Магсаржав, "Fixed hero " Magsardschaw or Сандагдоржийн Магсаржав, Sandagdordschiin Magsardschaw; * 1878, † 1927) was a general in the battle of Mongolia 's independence, and in 1921 a few months Mongolian Prime Minister. In 1924 he was given the additional title of honor Ardyn Chatanbaatar Magsardschaw (Mongolian Ардын Хатанбаатар Магсаржав, Fixed Hero of the People Magsardschaw ).

Magsardschaw supported the autonomy movement in Mongolia after the Chinese Revolution in 1912. Titular as he was this year, Lieutenant General of the Deputy Military Governor of Khovd, P'u -jun, who opposed the independence of Mongolia. He refused to withdraw from Khovd, even after it Magsardschaw had sent a letter to the Mongolian government from Urga in which these urged him to do so. Magsardschaw wanted to resolve the conflict first -violent. But after he had learned of a planned attack on him, he went secretly to Urga. Together with Dschamtsangiin Damdinsiiren he was in May 1912 " dignitaries to the pacification of the western frontier " and moved to Khovd with army contingents. This they took in August 1912, after the battles with a Chinese army, which was drawn from Xinjiang, and a long siege of the city. According to the biography of the politician Chorloogiin Choibalsan Magsardschaw to have consecrated the Mongolian script with the heart of an enemy during this siege. As a reward for his actions during the struggle to Khovd Magsardschaw received the title Qatan Bayatur and was Herzog, vice minister of the interior, as well as master of ceremonies.

After re- entry of Chinese Magsardschaw was arrested in 1919, but later freed during the campaign of Baron von Ungern- Sternberg. From February 15th to March 1921 he served under von Ungern- Sternberg's reign of terror as Prime Minister of Mongolia. He died in 1927.