Job title
PT Umum Mudur Muavini
Group of job titles: Management
Stored spellings: PT Umum Mudur Muavini; pt umum mudur muavini
2 officials held the job title PT Umum Mudur Muavini. Its 7 annual entries run from 1869 to 1912 (AH 1286 to 1330). The median of the 7 recorded monthly salaries is 3,400 kuruş, against 550 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.
- Officials
- 2
- Years on recordAH 1286 to 1330, 7 years with an entry
- 1869 to 1912
- Median monthly salaryfrom 7 recorded salaries
- 3,400 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 1
Profile of the group: Management
No source read describes PT Umum Mudur Muavini by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.
Directors of the offices and departments of the service. Under the regulation of November 1876 the administration of posts and telegraphs had a director general, a chief director (başmüdür) for each of its two departments, principal directors and inspectors in the provinces, directors (müdür) of the districts, and clerks in the smaller places, each answering to the one above.
Duties
- run an office of the service and direct its clerks
- in a telegraph office, keep the daily duty turns of the clerks, see that the apparatus is clean and working, and send a fault the office cannot repair to the mechanics (makineci) of the province or of Istanbul
- answer for the orderly and safe working of the office
Rank and pay
A schedule set by the centre paid telegraph directors of the first, second and third grade in the sancaks 1,200, 800 and 600 kuruş a month.
Sources
- Güneş, Mahir Melih (2026). Anadolu'da Telgrafın Toplumsal Tarihi (1856-1908). Doctoral thesis, Hacettepe University. Online copy (read 11 October 2026).Pages or part: 115, 119. Used for: duties.
- Okan, Ayşegül (2003). The Ottoman postal and telegraph services in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. MA thesis, Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History.Pages or part: 49. Used for: summary.
- The school and the office: training, entry and pay in the Ottoman Post and Telegraph service, 1870-1905. Working paper, 2026 (the paper behind this collection; its Section II reports Akyıldız 2024, Ata 2022 and Ayhan and Maviş 1994).Pages or part: Section II. Used for: rank and pay.
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul (Dersaadet) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) province | 2 | 7 | 1869 to 1912 |
Ottoman officials recorded
2 officials, the one with most annual entries first.
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mahmut Aziz Efendi | 1869 to 1875 | 6 | 2,800 to 3,400 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
| Ahmet Avni Efendi | 1911/12 | 1 | 5,000 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
Years run from the first to the last annual entry. An official without a recorded name is listed after the named officials.
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- PT Umum Mudur Muavini
- Ottoman job titles (Osmanlı memuriyet unvanları)
- Labour history (emek tarihi)
- Salaries of officials (memur maaşları)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)