Shalva Maglakelidze

Shalva Maglakelidze
General Shalva Maglakelidze, 1943
Died	Tbilisi
Nationality	Georgian
Alma mater	Gymnasium in Kutaisi. Berlin University
Occupation	Jurist, Politician and Military Commander
Known for	The leaders of anti-Soviet movement of Georgian émigrés in Europe and commander in the Wehrmacht's Georgische Legion.

Gymnasium in Kutaisi.

Shalva Maglakelidze (also spelled as Maghlakelidze; Georgian: შალვა მაღლაკელიძე, German: Schalwa Maglakelidse, French: Chalva Maglakelidzé) (1893—1976) was a Georgian jurist, politician and military commander. A high-ranking official in briefly independent Georgia (1918–1921), he was one of the leaders of anti-Soviet movement of Georgian émigrés in Europe. During World War II Maglakelidze was a commander in the Wehrmacht's Georgische Legion. Abducted from West Germany by the Soviet security agents, he was allowed to reside, under police supervision, in his native Georgia where he practiced law and died in Tbilisi.

Maglakelidze received his early education in a Georgian gymnasium in Kutaisi, then part of the Russian Empire, and obtained a PhD in law from the Berlin University. He fought in the Russian ranks in World War I and supported the Georgian independence cause following the Russian Revolution of 1917. From 1917 to 1918, he served as a plenipotentiary for the Russian Provisional Government and then for the government of Georgia in the restive districts of Akhaltsikhe and Akhalkalaki, where he resisted local Muslim separatism. From 1919 to 1920, Maglakelidze was a governor general of the Georgian capital Tbilisi.