Hamo Ohanjanyan

Hamo ( Hamazasp ) Ohandschanjan (Armenian Համո Օհանջանյան, also Hamo Ohanjanyan, * 1873 in Achalkalak, government Tiflis, Russian Empire; † July 31, 1947 in Cairo, Egypt) was an Armenian politician of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF ). He served from May 5 to November 23, 1920 as the third Prime Minister of the First Republic of Armenia.

Life

Ohandschanjan studied in his hometown Alchakalak, eventually moved to Tbilisi and graduated from the Russian Lyceum of Tbilisi. In 1892 he continued his studies at the University of Moscow and joined the Medical Fakultär. This he left to join the Armenian revolutionary movement. He traveled to Lausanne, where he met Kristapor Mikayelian, one of the founding members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.

After the Russian Revolution he was elected a member of the Russian Assembly, and in 1918 a member of the Transcaucasian Sejm.

In the spring of 1920 he moved to Yerevan and took over from April 3 to November 23 the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the newly formed First Republic of Armenia under the leadership of Alexander Chatissjan. Following the resignation of the government of Chatissjan Hamo Ohandschanjan was simultaneously appointed as prime minister.

He lived in Egypt since 1923 and 1928 took part in the foundation of the educational and cultural society Hamazkayin in Cairo.

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