Abd al-Karim Farhan

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Abdul Karim Farhan (left, with Karl-Günther von Hase ) in Bonn, May 1964

Sayyid Abd al-Karim Farhan ( Arabic عبد الكريم فرحان, DMG ʿAbd al-Karīm Farḥān ) also Abdul Karim Farhan (* 1922 in Iraq ; † June 7, 2015 in Uppsala ) was an Iraqi general and politician.

Live and act

After training at the Military College or Staff College and the College of Law in Baghdad, Farhan joined the Free Officers Movement of Iraq and the Arab Nationalists Movement during the Suez Crisis in 1956 . He was battalion commander on the eve of the 1958 revolution and was promoted to brigadier general for his part in the overthrow of the monarchy . After the overthrow of Abd al-Karim Qasim , he became the military governor of Baghdad and commander of the 1st division in February 1963 and was involved in the overthrow of the Ba'ath government in the military coup of November 18, 1963 .

Despite or because of his Nassist or unionist orientation, Farhan was appointed Minister of Information and Culture by President Abd as-Salam Arif on November 18, 1963 and remained in this post in the Tahir Yahya government . In parallel with the Egyptian-Iraqi unification plans, Farhan was elected General Secretary of the Arab Socialist Union founded by Fuad ar-Rikabi in July 1964 .

When the planned union with Egypt threatened to be delayed, Farhan, Rikabi and the other Nassist ministers resigned on July 10, 1965. Farhan, Rikabi and Brigadier General Arif Abd ar-Razzaq , who was appointed as the new Prime Minister, rejected any concessions to the rebellious Kurds in Iraq if they were at the expense of the Arab unification . After an attempted coup by ar-Razzaq in September 1965, Farhan also dared a coup attempt, which also failed on October 29, 1965. The Iraqi ASU was then directly subordinate to the Iraqi President, a group around ar-Rikabi split off as the Arab Socialist Movement .

Pardoned on Nasser's intervention, Farhan was reappointed to the government by Abd ar-Rahman Arif on May 10, 1967 , this time as Minister of Agriculture and Land Reform, which he held in a new Tahir Yahya government until July 10, 1968 . After the Ba'ath seizure of power by the Ba'ath government arrested and charged with conspiracy in April 1969, Farhan was pardoned thanks to further personal intervention by Nasser in 1970 and deported to Egypt together with Tahir Yahya . In Syria in 1994 he published his analysis Hisad tawra: mudakkirat - tagribat al-sulta fi-l-`Iraq, 1958–1968 (Harvest of a revolution: the experience of political rule in Iraq).

See also

Works

  • Hisad tawra: mudakkirat - tagribat al-sulta fi-l-`Iraq, 1958–1968 (Harvest of a revolution: the experience of political rule in Iraq). Dar al-Baraq Damascus 1994

literature

  • Marion and Peter Sluglett: Iraq since 1958 - From Revolution to Dictatorship . Suhrkamp Frankfurt 1991
  • Dr. Werner Rosenberg : Die Welt - data, facts, information of the year 1964. Pages 373f and 677-690. Dietz Verlag Berlin 1965
  • Dr. Werner Rosenberg : Die Welt - data, facts, information of the year 1965. Pages 271 and 281f. Dietz Verlag Berlin 1966

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary accessed on June 27, 2019
  2. ↑ The Middle East and North Africa 1969–70, page 892 in the Google book search Europa Publications Limited 1969
personal data
SURNAME Farhan, Abd al-Karim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farhan, Abdul Karim; عبد الكريم فرحان (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi general and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Iraq
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 2015
Place of death Uppsala