Tite Margwelaschwili

Titus of Margwelaschwili (Georgian ტიტე მარგველაშვილი, Tite Margwelaschwili, * 1891, † 1946) was a Georgian philosopher and journalist. He was chairman of the Georgian emigrants organization in Berlin.

Life

He came from a family of Georgian Landadeliger, studied at the University of Leipzig and received his doctorate at the University of Halle- Wittenberg. His career in Georgia in 1921 interrupted by the Soviet invasion of the Democratic Republic of Georgia.

After the end of World War II he lived in Berlin -Wilmersdorf in the British sector. In December 1945, he was lured by the Soviet secret NKVD to East Berlin. As a decoy served the Georgian orientalist Shalva Nuzubidse, a former classmate. From Margwelaschwili was arrested along with his son Givi on a visit, locked in a prison, interrogated, tortured and finally deported to Tbilisi and shot in August 1946 as an alleged traitor. The son was released to Georgia after 18 months of detention in the Soviet Special Camp No. 7 Sachsenhausen.

From Margwelaschwili was married until 1931 and had two children.

Works

• Titus of Margwelaschwili: Colchis, Iberia and Albania at the turn of the 1st century BC, with special consideration of Strabo. Phil Diss, Halle 1914
• Tite Margvelashvili: The man in a panther skin. In: Georgica. London 1936