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Hilmi Pasha

Hüseyin Hilmi
Pasha
Hussein Hilmi Pacha.JPG
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
In office
14 February 1909 – 13 April 1909
Monarch Abdülhamid II
Preceded by Kâmil Pasha
Succeeded by Ahmed Tevfik Pasha
In office
5 May 1909 – 12 January 1910
Monarch Mehmet V Reşad
Preceded by Ahmed Tevfik Pasha
Succeeded by Ibrahim Hakki Pasha
Minister of the Interior
In office
1908–1909
Inspectorate-General of Macedonia
In office
1902–1908
Ambassador to Austria-Hungary
In office
1912–1918
Personal details
Born (1855-04-01)1 April 1855
Lesbos, Ottoman Empire
Died 1922
Vienna, Austria
Nationality Ottoman

Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: حسین حلمی پاشا‎, also spelled Hussein Hilmi Pasha) (1 April 1855 – 1922) was an Ottoman statesman of Greek descent and twice Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire around the time of the Second Constitutional Era. He was also one-time president of the Turkish Red Crescent. Hüseyin Hilmi was one of the most successful Ottoman administrators in the explosive Balkans of the early 20th century, becoming the Ottoman Inspectorate-General of Macedonia from 1902 to 1908, Minister of the Interior from 1908 to 1909, and ambassador to Austria-Hungary from 1912 to 1918.

Hüseyin Hilmi was born in 1855 in Lesbos. He was of partial Greek ancestry, an ancestor converting to Islam. He did his primary studies in Lesbos and learned fluent French at an early age. He started out as a clerk in the Ottoman state structure and gradually climbed the ladder of the hierarchy, becoming the governor of Adana in 1897 and of Yemen in 1902. That same year in 1902, he was appointed Inspectorate-General with responsibility over virtually all of the Balkan territories of the Ottoman Empire at the time, namely the vilayets of Salonica, Kosovo and Manastir.


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