Goltz died on 19 April 1916, just about two weeks before the British in Kut surrendered on the 29 April. The official reason for his death was typhus, although apparently there were rumors that he had been poisoned. In accordance with his will, he was buried in the grounds of the German Consulate in Tarabya, Istanbul, overlooking the Bosporus. Footage exists of his funeral cortège, flanked on both sides by military officers and citizens of a grateful empire. Coincidentally, nineteen months later, British General Frederick Stanley Maude died in the same house in which Goltz had died.