Émile Eddé

Émile Eddé on a Lebanese postage stamp

Émile Eddé ( Arabic إميل أده; * May 5, 1884 in Damascus ; † September 28, 1949 ) was a Lebanese politician of the Maronite faith.

Life

Eddé studied law in Aix-en-Provence and later worked as a lawyer in Beirut . During the First World War he was one of the co-founders of the Légion d'Orient of the French army. Eddé was Prime Minister of Lebanon, under the French League of Nations mandate , from October 11, 1929 to March 25, 1930 , and in 1936 he founded the Lebanese party Bloc National . He was president of the country from 1936 to 1941 and resigned due to the policies of the Vichy government . On November 22, 1943, he was again acting head of state for one day.

His sons Raymond Eddé (1913–2000) and Pierre Eddé (1921–1997) were politicians.

literature

Michel Van Leeuw: Émile Eddé (1884-1949). Aux sources de la République libanaise , 2 vols. Geuthner: Paris, 2018. (Vol. 1: ISBN 978-2-7053-4004-9 ; Vol. 2: ISBN 978-2-7053-4005-6 )

Web links

Farès Sassine: "Portrait: Intégrité et paradoxes d'Émile Eddé" , L'Orient littéraire , February 2019.

Individual evidence

^ Profiles of Lebanon's presidents since independence. (No longer available online.) Lebanon Wire on May 25, 2008, archived from the original on January 20, 2013 ; Retrieved May 21, 2013 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Béchara el-Khoury	Prime Minister of Lebanon October 11, 1929 - March 25, 1930	Auguste Adib Pacha

personal data
SURNAME	Eddé, Émile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	إميل أده (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lebanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 5, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Damascus
DATE OF DEATH	September 28, 1949

[1] Profiles of Lebanon's presidents since independence. (No longer available online.) Lebanon Wire on May 25, 2008, archived from the original on January 20, 2013 ; Retrieved May 21, 2013 .