Abdul Hamid Badawi

Abdul Hamid Badawi (Egyptian- Arabic عبد الحميد بدوى, DMG ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Badawī ; * March  13, 1887 in Alexandria ; †  August 4, 1965 in Cairo ) was an Egyptian lawyer . He was Finance Minister in 1940 and Foreign Minister of the Egyptian Government in 1945, and from 1946 until his death a judge at the International Court of Justice .

Life

Abdul Hamid Badawi was in 1887 Alexandria was born and graduated in 1908 to study law at the Khedivischen law school in Cairo from. Four years later he received his PhD from the University of Grenoble . After his return to Egypt, he initially worked as a lecturer at the Khedivian School of Law before moving to government service.

At the beginning of the 1920s he worked, among other things, as Secretary General of the Egyptian government and as a royal advisor, and was involved in drafting the constitution for the Kingdom of Egypt , which came into force in April 1923. In addition, he was largely responsible for shaping the 1936 Treaty of Montreux , with which Turkey regained sovereignty over the Dardanelles , the Sea of ​​Marmara and the Bosphorus . A year after the conclusion of the treaty, he chaired the conference that led to the abolition of the surrender of the Ottoman Empire .

In 1940 he took over the Ministry of Finance and five years later the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Egyptian government. In 1946 he was elected judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague , where he worked until his death. From 1955 to 1958 he was Vice President of the Court. From 1948 he was a member of the Institut de Droit international . He died in Cairo in 1965.

literature

• Badawi, Dr. 'Abd al-Hamid. In: Arthur Goldschmidt: Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder 2000, ISBN 1-55-587229-8 , p. 31
• Abdal-Hamid Badawi. In: Arthur Eyffinger, Arthur Witteveen, Mohammed Bedjaoui : La Cour internationale de Justice 1946–1996. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague and London 1999, ISBN 9-04-110468-2 , p. 262