Abdul Razak (politician)

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Tun Abdul Razak visits Juliana (1968)

Tun Abdul Razak bin Haji Dato 'Hussein Al-Haj (born March 11, 1922 in Pekan , † January 14, 1976 in London ), usually Tun Abdul Razak or Tun Razak , was a Malaysian politician and the second prime minister from 1970 to 1976 from Malaysia . He belonged to the politically dominant United Malays National Organization (UMNO) and also founded the Barisan Nasional coalition , which has held the majority in the Malaysian parliament since it was founded . Najib Razak , who later became Prime Minister of Malaysia, is the eldest son of Abdul Razak.

Razak was born in 1922 in what is now the Malaysian state of Pahang , which at that time still belonged to the Federated Malay States and as such was a protectorate of the United Kingdom . From 1940 he first studied at Raffles College in Singapore , but had to interrupt his studies because of the Second World War when the Japanese Empire conquered Singapore. From 1941 he took an active part in the anti-Japanese resistance movement, became a captain and continued his military career after the war ended in 1945. He studied in London Law and in 1950 from Lincoln's Inn for at Barrister Law appointed.

After his return to Malaysia, where the Malay Federation was formed in the meantime, he joined the UMNO , became State Secretary in the state of Pahang and mainly dealt with questions of education and industrial development. From 1955 to 1957 he was Minister of Education of the Malay Federation. At the proclamation of independence in 1957, he took over the offices of deputy prime minister and defense minister and held them almost continuously until 1970, even after the formation of Malaysia in 1963 (from the Malay Federation, Sarawak, Sabah and Singapore, which left in 1965).

In September 1970 he replaced Tunku Abdul Rahman as head of government. At the beginning of October 1972 he stayed in Moscow and signed an agreement with Alexej Kosygin on technical and economic cooperation between the Soviet Union and Malaysia.

Razak died in 1976 as acting Prime Minister due to leukemia during a therapy visit in London. He was succeeded by Deputy Prime Minister Hussein Onn . Razak was buried in Makam Pahlawan , a mausoleum for special personalities in Malaysia, near the Malaysian state mosque, the Masjid Negara .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A visit to the USSR . (Biography of Abdul Razak) In: The Morning of October 6, 1972.
  2. ↑ Joint document . In: Neue Zeit , October 6, 1972, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Abdul Razak
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abdul Razak bin Haji Dato 'Hussein Al-Haj, Tun (full name); Abdul Razak, Tun; Razak, do
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Malaysian politician, Prime Minister of Malaysia (1970–1976)
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Pecan
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1976
Place of death London