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Tetsuzan Nagata (永田 鉄山, Nagata Tetsuzan, 14 January 1884 – 12 August 1935) was a Japanese military officer and general of the Imperial Japanese Army best known as the victim of the Aizawa Incident in August 1935.
After holding posts such as Chief of the Army Affairs Section of the Military Affairs Bureau and Chief of the Second Department of the General Staff Office, he became the Director of the Military Affairs Bureau in 1934. By that time, he had become the central figure of the Toseiha (Control faction).
The two were convinced that the incident was a Tōsei-ha attack on the young officers and began circulating a pamphlet calling for a "housecleaning" of the IJA and naming Tetsuzan Nagata as the "chief villain". They were then expelled from the IJA.
永田 鉄山 （ながた てつざん、 1884年 〈 明治 17年〉 1月14日 - 1935年 〈 昭和 10年〉 8月12日 ）は、 日本 の 陸軍 軍人 。 統制派 の中心人物。 陸軍中央幼年学校 次席卒業、 陸軍士官学校 首席卒業、 陸軍大学校 次席卒業を経て 参謀本部 第2部長、 歩兵 第1 旅団長 などを歴任した。 軍政家として本流を歩み「将来の 陸軍大臣 」「陸軍に永田あり」「永田の前に永田なく、永田の後に永田なし」 [1] と評される秀才だった。 陸軍刷新（長州閥支配打破など）を進めた。 陸軍省 軍務局長 （階級は 陸軍少将 ）時に、陸軍内部の統制派と 皇道派 の抗争に関連して 相沢三郎 陸軍中佐 に執務室で殺害された（ 相沢事件 ）。 略歴・人物. 前半生.
Lieutenant General Tetsuzan Nagata was the leader of the Tōseiha until his assassination in the Aizawa Incident in August 1935.
The assassination of one of the Japanese army’s most influential leaders, lieutenant-general Nagata Tetsuzan, by lieutenant-colonel Aizawa Saburo on August 12, 1935, underscored the bitter factionalism between the Army’s moderate Tosei-ha (Control faction), which Nagata headed, and the more radical Kodo-ha (Imperial Way faction ...
Nagata Tetsuzan, a 1911 graduate and the army’s “brains” between World War I and his murder in 1935, studied German and spent seven years in Sweden, Denmark and Germany during and after World War I. Army War College graduates were not only the officers trained to do rational planning for war and wartime operations, but were ...
