Otto von Feldmann
Otto von Feldmann (6 August 1873, Berlin – 20 May 1945) was a German officer and politician.
Feldmann attended the Royal Grammar School in Bydgoszcz, the Kaiser-Wilhelm-and Ratsgymnasium Hanover, the Kadettenvoranstalt in Potsdam and the main cadet institution in gross-Lichterfelde near Berlin. He joined to the Military in 1907. 1910-1912, he served as company chief in the Grenadier regiment 5, then again in the General Staff. Beginning with 1913, Feldmann changed the framework of the German military mission in the Ottoman Empire. He was initially departmental chief in the General Staff, then Chief of Staff of 1st Army and finally as Feldmann Pasha chief of surgery department at the Ottoman General Headquarters.

In 1913, Feldmann switched to Turkish service as part of the German military mission in the Ottoman Empire. There, he was first a department head in the General Staff, then Chief of Staff of the 1st Army and finally, as Fieldman Pasha, Chief of the Operations Department in the Turkish Supreme Army Command. In this position, he participated in the Armenian genocide. Together with General Fritz Bronsart von Schellendorf, he was with the Turkish Minister of War, Enver Pasha, almost every day and coordinated with him. Feldmann once commented on this: "But it should not and must not be denied that German officers - and I am one of them myself - were forced to give their advice at certain times to free certain areas in the rear of the army from Armenians."

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1873 births
1945 deaths
Armenian genocide perpetrators
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Imperial German collusion with war crimes by the Ottoman Empire
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German Army personnel of World War I
Ottoman military personnel of World War I
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Prussian Army personnel
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