Amin Farhang

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Mir Mohammad Amin Farhang (* 1940 in Kabul ) is an Afghan politician and the former Trade and Industry Minister of Afghanistan .

Life

His father was Mir Mohammad Siddiq Farhang . In 1959 he graduated from Esteqlal High School. In 1964 he came to Cologne on a DAAD scholarship , where he obtained his degree in economics and later his doctorate. From 1974 to 1978 he was professor at the Faculty of Economics at Kabul University and director of the National Economic Institute. In 1977 he returned to Germany as a DAAD guest lecturer. After returning to his homeland, he witnessed the communists' coup, founded an underground organization critical of the regime, was discovered and imprisoned in Pole Charki prison in Kabul for two years. In 1981 he managed to escape to Germany, where his wife and both daughters were also. He taught at the University of Bochum and founded a consulting office for the evaluation of projects in developing countries. At the end of December 2001 at the Afghanistan Conference on the Petersberg near Bonn he was named Minister of Construction and returned to Afghanistan.

At the instigation of the Wolesi Jirga ( People's Assembly , House of Commons), he and four other ministers had to change posts in the summer of 2006.

Farhang had had German citizenship since 1994. As a minister, he had to return it in 2004. He gained notoriety in Germany because he was monitored by the Federal Intelligence Service and his correspondence with a Spiegel journalist was recorded in the course of the monitoring .

In December 2008, the Wolesi Jirga brought about his removal from office. Farhang continues to live mainly in Kabul, where he set up a foundation for reconstruction in 2014, and where his family, who live in Bochum, visits him frequently, just as he often travels to Bochum with a French Schengen visa.

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  1. BND observed Afghan Minister Farhang , Spiegel Online , April 24, 2008
  2. Kölner Stadtanzeiger, January 27, 2016, p. 7