Ahmed al-Khatib

This article deals with the former President of Syria; for the Syrian opposition politician, see Moas al-Chatib .

Ahmed Chatib

Sayd Ahmed Hasan al-Chatib ( Arabic سيد أحمد الحسن الخطيب; * 1933 in Salchad near Suweida , Syrian Republic ; † 1982 in Damascus ) was a Syrian politician. As a civil member of the ruling Ba'ath Party , he served as president for four months in 1970/71.

The Sunni , who grew up between the Druze , studied literature and history in Damascus from 1951, then initially worked as a high school teacher and became general secretary of the Syrian teachers' union. At university he had already met the founders of the Ba'ath Party , of which he had become a member early on. Despite an initial brief appointment to the presidential council under Amin al-Hafiz 1965–1966, al-Khatib only made a career late in the party, which was torn apart by wing battles, when military ruler Hafiz al-Assad made him formal on November 18, 1970 after the so-called " corrective movement " Head of State of Syria appointed. He was supposed to replace the ousted President Nureddin al-Atassi . After only four months, his position was taken over by Assad himself; on February 22, 1971, Khatib was instead spokesman for the Syrian People's Council (President of Parliament), which he remained until December 26 of the same year. In addition, he had been a member of the regional command of the Syrian Ba'ath Party since May 1971. Then he was appointed in 1972 by the Presidential Council of the Egyptian-Libyan-Syrian Federation of Arab Republics as chairman of the Council of Ministers of a union government to be formed. The project failed in 1973 and the Union premiere never had any real power until then, even if Chatib formally continued to hold this office until 1975.

Ahmed al-Chatib had been married to Souraya al-Chatib since 1959 and had two sons and a daughter.

literature

• The International Who's Who 1988-89 , p. 798. London 1988
• Sabih M. Shukri (Ed.): The International Who's Who of the Arab World , p. 303. London 1983

Web link

• Ahmed Khatib , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 51/1970 of December 7, 1970, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)