Abdullah as-Sallal
Abdallah or Abdullah al-Sallal ( Arabic عبد الله السلال, DMG ʿAbdu llāh as-Sallāl ; * 1917 in Sanaa , North Yemen ; † March 5, 1994 ibid) was a Yemeni officer and politician. From September 27, 1962 to November 5, 1967 he was President and several times Prime Minister of the Yemeni Arab Republic, which he founded .
As early as 1934, the Kingdom of Yemen had concluded a military alliance (mainly directed against Saudi Arabia) with the Kingdom of Iraq . Abdullah as-Sallal was one of the first groups of Yemeni officers who received their military training in Iraq as a result of this alliance. Initially imprisoned on his return to Yemen in 1939, he continued his military service from 1940 to 1948. He was arrested again in 1948 on suspicion of being involved in the murder of King Yahya Muhammad Hamid ad-Din and only released in 1955, after which he resumed his military service. From 1959 to 1961 he was governor of al-Hudaida, responsible for the expansion of the port, but was arrested again in 1961 on suspicion of being involved in an assassination attempt on King Ahmad ibn Yahya .
The new King Muhammad al-Badr , who succeeded the throne on September 19, 1962 , promoted al-Sallal to colonel or made him chief of staff and commander of his bodyguard, but on September 26 al-Sallal and republican officers overthrew the monarchy. Muhammad survived injured and fled to the north of the country to tribes that remained royalist. As-Sallal became President of the Revolutionary Council and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the republic and appointed himself marshal . Between 1962 and 1967 he was Prime Minister and Foreign Minister three times.
In the North Yemeni civil war against the followers of Muhammad al-Badr, supported by Saudi Arabia, Jordan and partly by Great Britain, al-Sallal allied himself with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser and South Yemeni rebels. A union with Egypt he succeeded just as little as a victory over the royalists. He stayed in Egypt from August 1965 to August 1966. After the withdrawal of the Egyptians as part of an agreement with Saudi Arabia and in view of the defeat in the Six Day War , he found himself increasingly isolated within the Revolutionary Command Council. Close friends like Hassan al-Amri turned away. During a stay in the Soviet Union , where he sought military aid , he was deposed. He was succeeded at the head of the republic by Abdul Rahman al-Iriani . Sallal found asylum first in Iraq, then in Egypt, but was allowed to return under an amnesty in 1980.
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- Lothar Rathmann (Ed.): History of the Arabs - From the beginnings to the present , Volume 3, page 223. Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1974
- Lothar Rathmann (Ed.): History of the Arabs - From the beginnings to the present , Volume 6, page 305. Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1983
- Fischer Weltalmanach '66, page 165. Frankfurt / Main 1965
- The International Who's Who 1988-89, page 1328. Fifty-Second Edition. Europa Publications Limited 1988 London
Web links
- Abdallah al-Sallal , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 21/1994 of May 16, 1994 (lm), in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Biography in the LookLex Encyclopaedia of the Orient
- Short biography on rulers.org
Abdullah as-Sallal (1962–1967) | Abd ar-Rahman al-Iryani (1967–1974) | Ibrahim al-Hamdi (1974-1977) | Ahmed Hussein al-Ghashmi (1977–1978) | Abd al-Karim Abdullah al-Arashi (1978) | Ali Abdullah Salih (1978–1990)
Abdullah as-Sallal (1962–1963) | Abd al-Latif Dayfallah (1963) | Abd ar-Rahman al-Iryani (1963–1964) | Hassan al-Amri (1964) | Hamud al-Jaifi (1964-1965) | Hassan al-Amri (1965) | Ahmad Muhammad Numan (1965) | Abdullah as-Sallal (1965) | Hassan al-Amri (1965–1966) | Abdullah as-Sallal (1966-1967) | Muhsin Ahmad al-Aini (1967) | Hassan al-Amri (1967–1969) | Abd as-Salam Sabrah (1969) | Muhsin Ahmad al-Aini (1969) | Abdullah Kurschumi (1969–1970) | Muhsin Ahmad al-Aini (1970–1971) | Abd as-Salam Sabrah (1971) | Ahmad Muhammad Numan (1971) | Hassan al-Amri (1971) | Abd as-Salam Sabrah (1971) | Muhsin Ahmad al-Aini (1971–1972) | Abdullah al-Hajjri (1972–1974) | Hassan Muhammad Makki (1974) | Muhsin Ahmad al-Aini (1974–1975) | Abd al-Latif Dayfallah (1975) | Abd al-Aziz Abd al-Ghani (1975–1980) | Abd al-Karim al-Iryani (1980-1983) | Abd al-Aziz Abd al-Ghani (1983–1990)
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| SURNAME | Abdullah as-Sallal |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abdallah as-Sallal; Abdullah al-Sallal; عبد الله السلال (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yemeni officer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sanaa |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1994 |
| Place of death | Sanaa |