Ahmad Husain Chudair

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Ahmad Husain Chudair or Ahmad Hussein al-Khudayir as-Samarra'i , occasionally also Khudajir , al-Khudaijir , al-Khodair , el-Khodeir , el-Chodair or Chodajer ( Arabic أحمد حسين خضير السامرائي, DMG Aḥmad Ḥusain Ḫuḍair as-Sāmarrāʾī ; * July 2, 1941 in Samarra ) is a former Iraqi politician . He was the last prime minister of the former ruling Ba'ath party .

Initially, after the Baathist overturns in July 1968, Ahmad Husain Chudair was a brief member of the Central Council of the Iraqi regional command of the Baath Party, but then disappeared for the time being after Saddam Hussein took office as Vice President (1969) or President and General Secretary of the Baath Party (1979) again in the second row. From 1982 to 1986 he was only Minister for Youth in Saddam Hussein's cabinet.

When, after his defeat in the Second Gulf War, Saddam Hussein had the constitution changed, resigned the office of head of government and left the office of president, he appointed Saadun Hammadi, a Shiite, as prime minister in March 1991 , who he replaced in September 1991. In Hammadi's cabinet as well as in that of Hammadi's successor Muhammad Hamza az-Zubaidi , al-Khudayir was first foreign minister ( replacing Tariq Aziz ), and then finance minister from July 1992. On September 6, 1993, however, President Saddam Hussein recalled az-Zubaidi and named al-Khudayir as his successor. The reshuffle is said to have been preceded by an attempted coup at the end of July 1993. Zubaidi had been accused of failing to prevent the coup attempt.

Khudayir only remained prime minister until May 29, 1994, when Saddam Hussein had the constitution changed again and took over the office of head of government himself. Khudayir initially remained finance minister before he was replaced by Hikmat Ibrahim al-Azzawi in 1995. As part of a new government reshuffle, Chudair was again deputy premier in July 2001.

After the Third Gulf War , he was arrested by the US allied occupation forces in 2003 and convicted in 2006 for alleged involvement in executions, but released again in 2010.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Fischer Weltalmanach alone used four different transcriptions in its three editions 1992, 1994 and 1995.
  2. ↑ There are contradicting statements about whether al-Khudayir was also a Shiite (or a Sunni who superficially converted to Shia).

literature

  • Edmund A. Ghareeb, Beth Dougherty: Historical Dictionary of Iraq , page 135f (Khudhayr, Ahmad Husayn). The Scarecrow Press, Lanham / Oxford 2004

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Munzinger-Archiv / Internationales Handarchiv - Zeitarchiv 43/93 (September 1993), page 6. Ravensburg 1993
  2. ^ Robin Leonard Bidwell : Dictionary of Modern Arab History , p. 455. London / New York 1998
personal data
SURNAME Chudair, Ahmad Husain
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Khodeir al-Samarrai, Ahmed Hussein el
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi politician, Prime Minister of Iraq
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Samarra