page_title: Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz / Death
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Ras-el-Ain, Offiziere der Palästinamission Ras-el-Ain (Syrien), Nähe Euphrat (damaliges Ende der Bagdad-Bahn), Mai 1916 Deutsche Offiziere der Sondermission Palästina erwarten Ankunft des Sarges mit dem verstorbenen Generalfeldmarschall von der Goltz-Pascha (+19.4.1916 in Bagdad). An der Prévast-Filmkamera: Unteroffizier Werner Brandes (am 10.3.1916 zur Sondermission abkommandiert), aufgenommen von einem Foto-Berichterstatter-Kameraden
context_page_description: Wilhelm Leopold Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, also known as Goltz Pasha, was a Prussian Field Marshal and military writer.
context_section_description: Goltz died on 19 April 1916, in Baghdad, just two weeks before the British in Kut surrendered. 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. Coincidentally, nineteen months later, British General Frederick Stanley Maude died in the same house in which Goltz had died.
caption: Ras al-Ain (Syria), near the Euphrates river (then the end of the Baghdad Railway), May 1916: German officers of the Special Palestine Mission are waiting for the arrival of the coffin of Goltz-Pasha
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