Ahmad al-Lawzi

Ahmad al-Lawzi

Ahmad Abd al-Karim al-Lawzi (alternative name: Ahmad ʿAbd al-Karim al-Lozi ; Arabic أحمد اللوزي; * 1925 in Al Jubayhah , Amman , Transjordan ; † November 18, 2014 ) was a Jordanian politician who was Prime Minister of Jordan between 1971 and 1973 .

Life

After attending school in Amman and Al-Salt, Al-Lawzi began studying at the Teachers' College in Baghdad , graduating in 1950 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Litt.). He then worked between 1950 and 1953 as a teacher at a school in Al-Salt and most recently at Al Hussein Secondary College in Amman, before becoming deputy chief of protocol in 1953 and chief of protocol of the royal court in 1956. In 1957 he became chief of protocol at the Foreign Ministry and master of ceremonies at the royal court. In 1961 he became a member of the Assembly of Representatives (Maǧlis an-Nuwwāb) and re-elected as such in 1962 for the Amman Governorate . In 1963 he became assistant to the head of the royal court and in 1964 Minister of State to Prime Minister Bahdschat at-Talhuni . In 1965 he became a member of the Senate (Maǧlis al-Aʿyān) , the king-appointed upper house of the Jordanian Parliament ( Majlis al-Umma ) , and was a member of it until 1967. During his membership in the Senate, he was a member of the Legal and Administrative Committee and the Finance Committee.

Between March and October 1967, al-Lawzi took over the offices of Minister of the Interior and Minister of Urban and Village Affairs in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Hussein ibn Nasser and in the government of Prime Minister Saad Dschumaa . In 1970, he took over the post of finance minister in Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tal's third cabinet . After the assassination of Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tal on November 28, 1971, he was appointed as his successor as Prime Minister on November 29, 1971 and held this office until his replacement by Zaid al-Rifai on May 26, 1973. He was also between 1971 and 1975 member of the Board of Directors of the University of Jordan . In 1978 he became President of the National Consultative Council and remained in that post until 1979.

Afterwards, al-Lawzi was head of the royal court between 1979 and 1984 and thus one of the closest advisers to King Hussein I. In 1984 he became a member of the Senate again and served as President of the Senate between 1984 and his resignation on June 7, 1997. In 2000 he became Chairman of the Board of Directors of the University of Amman. In April 2011 he was appointed by King Abdullah II bin al-Hussein to chair a royal committee for the revision of the Jordanian constitution.

A daughter of al-Lawzis is with the politician and entrepreneur Abdelkarim al-Kabariti , who was also prime minister between 1996 and 1997 and head of the royal court from 1999 to 2000.

Web links

• Harris M. Lentz: Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 , p. 1682, Routledge Publishing, 2014, ISBN 1-134-26497-6
• Entry in rulers.org
• Ahmad Lozi passes away . In: The Jordan Times of November 18, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jordan: Prime Ministers (rulers.org)