Shalva Maglakelidze

Shalva Maglakelidse (Georgian შალვა მაღლაკელიძე; * 1893, † 1970 in Rustavi, Georgia) was a Georgian politician and commander of the Georgian Legion of Wehrmacht.

Life

He completed a degree in law at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin and received his doctorate there. In the first Republic of Georgia from 1919 to 1920 he was governor of the capital, Tbilisi.

After the Soviet occupation of Georgia by the Red Army, he left his home in March 1921 and settled in Germany. In 1924 he was co-founder and first chairman of the resistance organization Georgian committee White Georg in Germany.

In 1929 he founded Riga in the Iveria Company ( later Caucasian society ) located. Stranded emigrants to 1933, divided the society. Maglakelidse founded the Georgian Society of Latvia, which had close links with the Georgian emigration in France.

In 1942 he was co-founder of the exile party Union of Georgian Traditionalists and Georgian National Committee in Berlin. At the same time he took over the chairmanship of the Germany-based Caucasian Committee.

During the Second World War, Maglakelidse involved in the formation of the Georgian Legion of the Wehrmacht, was general and their commander. Here, a German guide bar him stood to the side, under the command of the Ostlegionen war.1941 he created the Order of Queen Tamara, the highest distinction of the Legion. In 1944 he was promoted to Major General of the Wehrmacht.

After 1945 he lived in West Germany. 1949 to 1952 he was a military advisor Konrad Adenauer. On January 26, 1954, he founded the organization in Munich Georgian soldiers abroad. In August of the same year he was kidnapped by agents of the Soviet secret service KGB.

He spent his last years in Rustavi, Georgian SSR, separated from his remaining family in Western Europe.

Writings

  • Chalva Maglakelidze: Vers la restauration du Royaume de Georgie. In: Tetri Giorgi, No: 99, Paris 1936
  • Politicians (Georgia)
  • Russian emigrant
  • Military person (Georgia)
  • Military person ( Wehrmacht )
  • Georgian
  • Born in 1893
  • Died in 1970
  • Man
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