Hans Humann

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (April 2015) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the German article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Hans Humann]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Hans Humann}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Hans Humann (born 1878 in Smyrna; died 7 October 1933) was an officer in the Imperial German Navy, diplomat (Naval Attaché) and businessman. Humann became famous as one of the main representatives of the German Reich in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, as well as the publisher of the widely circulated Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung since 1920, when industrialist Hugo Stinnes bought the paper. Humann was a key German eyewitness of the Armenian genocide. As a personal friend and key wartime associate of Enver Pasha, he even defended the genocide in newspaper articles for DAZ during the Weimar republic.