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The Niedermayer-Hentig mission, sometimes referred to as The German mission to Kabul was a German diplomatic mission to Afghanistan in 1915-1916 that sought to encourage Afghanistan to declare support for the Central Powers and attack British India. The titular head of the mission was the exiled Indian prince, Raja Mahendra Pratap, and was led by Oskar Niedermayer and Werner Otto von Hentig. The mission was formed to a large extent a part of the Hindu German Conspiracy as of the German war effort. The mission is known to have been deemed a critical threat to Britain and her Asian empire, so that repeated efforts were made to annihilate the mission throughout the routes to Afghanistan. The mission itself came quite close to successfully rallying the Emir, inviting the personal interventions of the Viceroy Lord Hardinge and King George V. It is now accepted to have played a role in the reform movement that ultimately saw the assassinations of the Emir Habibullah Khan in 1919 that subsequently precipitated the Third Afghan War.
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- Seidt, Hans-Ulrich (2001), From Palestine to the Caucasus-Oskar Niedermayer and Germany's Middle Eastern Strategy in 1918.German Studies Review, Vol. 24, No. 1. (Feb., 2001), pp. 1-18, German Studies Association.
- Hughes, Thomas L (2002), The German Mission to Afghanistan, 1915-1916.German Studies Review, Vol. 25, No. 3. (Oct., 2002), pp. 447-476., German Studies Association, ISSN: 01497952.
