Akram al-Haurani
Akram al-Haurani , also Hourani ( Arabic أكرم الحوراني, DMG Akram al-Ḥawrānī ; * 1915 in Hama , Syria ; † February 24, 1996 in Amman , Jordan ), was a Syrian politician and co-founder of the Baath Arab Socialist Party (ASBP).
Life
Haurani was from Hama. His father was one of the town's civil notables. His father ran unsuccessfully for the Ottoman parliament in 1908.
While studying law in Beirut and Damascus, al-Haurani was initially a supporter of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, which wanted to establish a Greater Syrian state under the leadership of Antun Sa'ada . In 1932, Haurani was involved in a failed assassination attempt on Prime Minister Subhi Barakat . During the pro-German coup in Iraq in 1941, Haurani volunteered to fight for the putschists. In 1939 he took up the profession of lawyer and founded the youth party together with his brother . Just four years later, in 1943, he became a deputy in the Syrian parliament. From 1948 to 1949 he was a volunteer in the Palestine War .
After the Syrian defeat in 1949, Akram al-Haurani acted as one of the masterminds of the coup of Husni az-Za'ims and was Minister of Agriculture, Defense and Information until 1950. In 1950 the youth party was renamed the “Arab Socialist Party”, which in 1953 merged with the Ba'ath party of Michel Aflaqs and Salah ad-Din al-Bitars , founded in 1946 . Haurani became chairman of the new ASBP; the Ba'ath thought leader Zaki al-Arsuzi stopped working in protest.
Akram al-Haurani was Vice-President of the Syrian Parliament from 1954 to 1957 because of his personal friendship with President Shishakli . In 1958 he became Vice President of the Union of Egypt with Syria. However, he was an opponent of Gamal Abdel Nasser and therefore involved in the separation of Syria in 1961. Because of his entry into the separatist government in 1962, he was ousted and expelled from the Ba'ath Party, and his supporters re-established the former Arab Socialist Party as the Arab Socialist Movement . Despite the takeover of the Ba'ath Party in 1963 and the left wing of the party supported by Haurani in 1966, Akram al-Haurani was in opposition to Prime Minister Zayyen and General Hafiz al-Assad . Because of this, he was arrested in 1966 and was deported to Cyprus and later to Paris.
In 1980, Akram al-Haurani blamed the Assad government for the murder of Salah al-Din al-Bitar in Paris.
Web links
- Akram el-Haurani , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 43/1966 of October 17, 1966, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sami Moubayed: Steel an Silk - Men an Women who shaped Syria 1900-2000 , Seattle, 2006, pp. 245-250.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haurani, Akram al- |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hourani, Akram al-; أكرم الحوراني (Arabic); Ḥawrānī, Akram al- |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Syrian politician and co-founder of the Arab Baath Socialist Party (ASBP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hama Syria |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1996 |
| Place of death | Amman , Jordan |