Abdul Majid Zabuli

Abdul Majid Zabuli (born August 14, 1896 in Herat , † November 23, 1998 in Nahant ) was an Afghan politician and businessman .

Life

Abdul Majid Zabuli was the son of Abdul Hakim who started his career as a customs officer in Herat.

Abdul Majid Zabuli studied in Herat and Tashkent . In 1917 he took over an import-export company from his father, which had dealt with trade with Persia and Russia. In 1922, Abdul Majid Zabuli moved the company headquarters to Tashkent and from there to Moscow in order to run a textile mill as part of the New Economic Policy . In 1929 he devoted himself to capital investments in Berlin.

Until 1930, the Afghan money market was based exclusively on money bazaars.

In January 1925 suggested Amanullah Khan of the Majlis before the establishment of a state bank, which because of the interest ban the Koran was rejected and the rebellion of Khost contributed 1927th Mohammed Nadir Shah invited Abdul Majid Zabuli to return to Afghanistan

In 1931, Mohammed Nadir Shah Abdul Majid Zabuli the right to create money , the latter with the Da Afghanistan Bank , the Industrial Bank and the Banke Millie Afghan , with branches in Berlin, London, Bombay, Karachi, Peshawar and later as Afghan-American Trading Company in New York City perceived.

In 1932, Abdul Majid founded the Ashami company as a public-private partnership with a fifth of the state-owned shares. The Ashami Company granted Mohammed Nadir Shah a trade monopoly on the import of sugar, petroleum and motor vehicles as well as the export of cotton and sheep's wool and karakul skin . The Ashami company set up cotton processing companies to bring the then still lucrative part of the value chain to Afghanistan.

From 1936 to 1951 under Mohammed Zahir Shah , Abdul Majid Zabuli was Minister of Economic Affairs, under his direction industrial companies were established in Pol-e Chomri , Kunduz and Kabul.

Afghan-German economic cooperation

In 1928 Josef Brix headed a group to which Albert Speer belonged, which was to plan for Amanullah Khan in Afghanistan. The Afghan Foreign Minister Sardar Haji Faiz Muhammad Khan Zikeria signed an oil production agreement in Berlin in August 1929, when he visited the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 and requested arms deliveries, he told Adolf Hitler that his people saw Germany as an older and more advanced Aryan brother.

From September 1938 to April 1939, Abdul Majid Zabuli held the office of Minister of Commerce. From 1933 onwards, the Germans formed the largest number of foreigners in Kabul. By 1941, the cooperation with trading and industrial companies in the German Reich was expanded. Officers of the Wehrmacht were the modernization of the Afghan army in charge, and the German Reich gave modern military equipment. Experts from the German Reich reorganized the Afghan police and the Chidamāt-i Ittilā'āt-i Dawlati .

In the first half of September 1937, Abdul Majid Zabuli took part in the Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg. On October 18, 1937, Fritz Todt and Abdul Medjid Khan signed a German-Afghan agreement on construction and land transport under the patronage of AFA .

In 1939 the German Reich and Afghanistan signed a loan agreement for 11 million Rentenmarks for the import of raw materials from Afghanistan in exchange for the delivery of finished products from the German Reich, assuming a tenfold increase in mutual trade within two years.

In August 1939, Majid Khan proposed extensive cooperation with the German Reich in the event of a German-British conflict. This proposal had also been made in consideration of Afghanistan's precarious situation vis-à-vis the Soviet Union. In the Reich Foreign Ministry , however, there was a plan to install Amanullah Khan , who had gone into exile in Zurich in 1929 , possibly with the help of the Soviet Union in Kabul. The plan was devised by Ghulam Siddiq Charkhi, promoted by Werner Otto von Hentig , developed by Peter Kleist under the leadership of Theodor Habicht and brought to Moscow by Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg on November 14, 1940 together with the plan of the posting of Ernst Schäfer (zoologist) introduced to Tibet , Vyacheslav Michailowitsch Molotov . Upon the intervention of Alfred Rosenberg , Adolf Hitler dropped the plan. After the Barbarossa company started up , Abdul Majid Kahn was given absolute support.

After the Armistice in Compiègne (1940) , Abdul Majid Zabuli proposed to Carl Schnell, senior government building officer, that Afghanistan should actively support German interests and be ready to use all opportunities that feelings and religious ties might offer, especially border tribes and the Afghan ones People in British India take action against the British to prevent the embarkation of Indian troops for the Mediterranean theater of war. Hans Pilger did not know whether Abdul Majid Zabuli made the offer for the Afghan government. Majid Kahn indicated that the signatories of the non-aggression treaty concluded on July 8, 1937 in the Saadabad palace complex (Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Turkey), although he dared not be certain of this, were inclined to pursue their policy with the German Harmonize richly.

In January 1941, Abdul Majid Zabuli left Kabul for the USA, but changed his destination in Karachi in order to receive medical treatment in the German Reich and Switzerland. His son Rahin Abdul joined him and his wife there at the end of December to wait together for the end of the war. With the increasingly worsening war situation for the German Reich, it lost its importance for economic exchange. As a result, Abdul Majid Khan sought economic cooperation with the United States and Switzerland. After the war in Europe came to an end, Abdul Majid Zabuli left Switzerland on June 5, 1945 and returned to his Afghan homeland.

Weekh Zalmian

Zabuli supported the Weekh Zalmian movement that began in 1946. This called on the youth of Afghanistan to get involved without foreign influence for the common good of the fatherland, the development of the national economy and against bribery and arbitrary repression.

In 1948 Abdul Majid Zabuli was on a state visit to Washington, DC In the context of the incipient containment policy , against the background of independence from British India , he asked the Truman cabinet in vain for development cooperation and arms deliveries.

In 1951 he resigned in a conflict with the Prime Minister Shah Mahmud Ghazi , his interests were pursued by other members of the family close to the government. He was retired and lived near Boston from 1970 .

Abdul Majid Zabuli bequeathed land ownership in and outside Afghanistan valued at $ 0.2 billion.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Importance of the Money Bazaars in Foreign Trade: Maxwell J. Fry, The Afghan Economy : Money, Finance, and the critical constraints to economic S. 241
2. ↑ Habibo Brechna, The History of Afghanistan : The Historical Environment of Afghanistan over 1500 Years, p. VII
3. ^ The daily newspaper , January 13, 2003, Brothers in the Spirit, Brothers in Delusion
4. ^ Gerhard Hischfeld, Lothar Kettenacker, "Führer State" : myth and reality: studies on the structure and German Historical Institute in London, 1981 - 465 p., P. 89
5. ^ Telegram from Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg November 14, 1940
6. ↑ Oberregierungsbaurat Carl Schnell, representative of the Reich Ministry for Armaments and Munitions and the Todt Organization in Kabul in Zagreb and at the Heldenklau Commission of Walter von Unruh (General of the Infantry)
7. ^ Gerhard Schreiber, Bernd Stegemann, Detlef Vogel, Germany and the Second World War : the Mediterranean, South-east Europe, and north Africa, 1939–1941 Clarendon Press, 1990, 822 pp., P. 164
8. ↑ Angelo Rasanayagam, Afghanistan : A Modern History, p. 28
9. ↑ Ludwig W. Adamec , Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan 2012, p. 456
10. ↑ zabuli foundation

predecessor	Office	successor
	Afghan Minister of Economic Affairs 1936 to October 14, 1950	Me Muhammad Haidar
Muhammad Yaftali	Afghan Minister of Commerce September 1938 to April 1939	Abdullah Malikyar