Tofiq Wahbi Beg was born on #01-12-1891# in Sulaymaniyah.
He was a child when his father died. He completed his primary education in his hometown and went to Baghdad in 1904 to complete his secondary education and Military High School successfully.
He then moved to Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, to complete his higher education. He was accepted in Military College and became an officer in the Ottoman Army.
During World War I in 1914, he fought in the Battle of Chana Qala in the Dardanelles and was later sent to southern Iraq to fight against British forces in Shuaiba. He participated in the fight in Rumadi in September 1917, and when the city was captured by the British, he withdrew with his army to Hit.
In 1918, he was transferred to the Palestinian front and promoted to the rank of sergeant. He received the Heroism Medal from the German leader. Most of the commanders of the Ottoman army were German generals as the Ottomans were allied with Germany to fight the British, French, and Americans.
When the World War ended in November 1918, he returned to Kurdistan and then to Baghdad, where he became one of the prominent Kurdish officers in the establishment of the Iraqi army on 06-12- 1921.
When Sheikh Mahmud Hafid returned to Sulaymaniyah from India in 1922 and became king of Kurdistan, Tofiq Wahbi Beg joined the Kurdish leader's movement in October 1922, which was destroyed by the British, and Tofiq Wahbi was held by the British for 42 days. After his release in 1923, he was appointed administrator of the movements in the Iraqi Defense Department. In August 1925, he was appointed director of the military school in Baghdad. In 1930, he was promoted to the rank of colonel and appointed governor of Sulaymaniyah, but was dismissed before the battle of #06-09-1930# outside the Sulaymaniyah Palace. He remained unemployed until 1946. He succeeded Hamdi Pachechi as Iraqi Minister of Economy and was appointed Minister of Defense and Education several times in the name of the Kurds until 1958.
In early 1958, he was appointed a member of the Iraqi Council of Elders. After the #14-07-1958# revolution, he left Iraq and moved to London, where he spent the last years of his life. He died at the age of 93 on 05-01-1984 and his body was brought back to Sulaymaniyah and buried on his will on Mount Piramagrun next to the grave of the Kurdish good man Piramagrun.[2]