Ahmad Matin-Daftari

Ahmad Matin-Daftari ( Persian احمد متین دفتری; * 1896 in Tehran ; † 1971 ibid) was a lawyer, university professor, justice minister and prime minister of Iran .

Life

Ahmad Matin-Daftari, also known by the nickname Mo'in al-Dowleh , was born in 1896 to Mirza Mahmud-Chan Ein ol-Mamalek. He came from an old Iranian civil servant family who could trace their origins back to the Zand dynasty .

Ahmad Matin-Daftari attended the German school in Tehran. After graduating from high school, he studied and obtained his doctorate in France.

He was a member of the Iranian Parliament ( Majles ). In 1939 he became Prime Minister after the resignation of Mahmoud Jam's government . Iran's first national census took place during his reign . Matin-Daftari also founded Radio Tehran with the help of Siemens AG .

In addition to his political offices, Matin-Daftari taught law at the University of Tehran .

After the Anglo-Soviet invasion , Ahmad Matin-Daftari was arrested on the orders of the British in 1941 because of his political ties with Germany.

Ahmad Matin-Daftari was married to a daughter of Mohammad Mossadegh and had two sons. His son Hedayatollah Matin-Daftari was a member of the People's Mojahedin and founder of the National Democratic Front of Iran . His political career came to an early end in 1962. The reason was the political activity of his two sons in particular Hedayatollah Matin-Daftari, who had joined the People's Mujahideen guerrilla organization to overthrow Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi .

Ahmad Matin-Daftari died in Tehran in 1971.

literature

• Alireza Avsati: Iran in the last 3 Centuries . Intishārāt-i Pā'kitāb, Tehran 2003, ISBN 964-93406-6-1 (vol. 1), ISBN 964-93406-5-3 (vol. 2) (Persian).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ervand Abrahamian: Iran between two revolutions . University Press, Princeton 1982, p. 241. ISBN 0-691-05342-1 .