Ahmad Badawi

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Ahmad Badawi

Ahmad Badawi , Arabic أحمد بدوي(* April 3, 1927 in Alexandria ; † March 2, 1981 near the Siwa Oasis ) was an Egyptian field marshal, a commander of the armed forces and minister of defense.

Life

In 1948 he graduated from the Military Academy in Cairo and served in the Palestinian War in Rafah , Gaza and Ashkelon .

He then taught at the Military Academy in Cairo. From 1958 to 1961 he studied at the Frunze Military Academy .

He was retired after the Six Day War . In the armed forces of Egypt, the guilty party for the defeat was also sought in the graduating class of Shamseddin Badran's military academy , to which Badawi also belonged. Ahmad Badawi studied at this time to 1974 Bachelor Business Administration at the Ain Shams University.

In May 1971 under Anwar as-Sadat , Ahmad Badawi was reactivated and from 1972 taught again at the military academy in Cairo. In 1973 he was given command of a motorized infantry division.

During the Yom Kippur War , the Third Field Army Divisions he commanded was stationed south of Suez and fended off an attack on Suez. After crossing the Suez Canal , his division had initial success and was finally able to hold the east bank of the Suez Canal. On December 13, 1973 he was promoted to major general.

On June 25, 1978, Ahmad Badawi was appointed head of training for the armed forces of Egypt. He served as Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces and on October 4, 1978 he became Deputy Secretary General for Military Affairs in the Arab League.

Helicopter crash

On March 2, 1981, a helicopter with essential parts of the Egyptian General Staff crashed.

  1. Major General Salah Qasim , Chief of Staff of the Military Region West
  2. Major General Ali Faik , Patient Commander of the Western Military Region
  3. General Jalal, secret chief of the armed forces engineering department
  4. Major General Ahmed Fouad
  5. Major General Mansour Attia , Chief of Logistics
  6. Major General Mohamed Heshmat Gado , Chief of Training
  7. Major General Mohammed Ahmed Al-Maghrabi , Deputy Head of Administration
  8. Major General Fawzi
  9. Major General Mohammed Hassan
  10. Head of the General Staff Ammar Mohammed Al Saadi , operational head of the armed forces
  11. General Staff Quartermaster Mohamed Ahmed Wahby , Head of Administration at the Ministry of Defense
  12. Colonel Abbas Musharraf
  13. Colonel Majid Mandour

The passenger compartment was hermetically sealed; four crew members and the Badawi secretary survived the crash. The successor to the office of the Egyptian defense minister was a military attaché in Washington at the time of the crash .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ahmed Badawi, 53, Egyptian Defense Minister and armed forces commander in chief, who became a national hero after leading an assault division across the Suez Canal to storm the Bar-Lev line during the 1973 war with Israel; when his helicopter crashed during a routine inspection tour, killing 13 other senior Egyptian commanders and hence all but wiping out the country's military leadership; in Egypt's western desert see: Time , Mar. 16, 1981, DIED.
predecessor Office successor
Kamal Hasan Ali Egyptian Defense Minister
May 14, 1980 to March 2, 1981 		Abd al-Halim Abu Ghazala
personal data
SURNAME Badawi, Ahmad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heweedy, Ameen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian Defense Minister
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandria
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1981
Place of death at Siwa Oasis