Auguste Adib Pacha

Auguste Pasha

Auguste Adib Pacha ( Arabic أوغست أديب باشا, * 1859 in Dair el-Qamar , then Ottoman Empire , today Lebanon; † July 12, 1936 in Paris , France ) was a politician who was Prime Minister of Lebanon twice between 1926 and 1932 .

Life

Auguste Adib was born into a Maronite family in the Lebanon Mountains. He studied first at the Jesuit school of Deir Mar Maroun in Ghazir, then at its successor school, the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut. In 1885 he emigrated to Egypt and worked there in the local administration.

He was one of the founding fathers of the Alliance libanaise (Arabic: Hizb al-Itihad al-Lubnani ), which Lebanese abroad founded in Cairo in 1908 . Like other Arab associations in the Ottoman Empire, this party demanded the independence of the Arab territories from the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, she represented the idea of ​​creating a Christian-dominated state of Grand-Leban (Greater Lebanon), since the Christian Lebanese were actually descendants of the Phoenicians and not Arabs. With this opinion, Adib and his colleagues distanced themselves from the pan-Arab ideas of other independence proponents among the Arabs of the Middle East.

After the Arab-populated areas in the Middle East were detached from the Ottoman Empire after the First World War, he returned to Lebanon in 1920 after spending decades in Egypt . The French colonial rulers divided up the previous mandate of Syria in 1926 and the state of Lebanon was created. First president was Charles Debbas and Auguste Adib on May 31, 1926 the first head of government of the Mandate Lebanon. In December 1926, Adib traveled to Paris to attend a conference on solving the debt problem of the Ottoman Empire. The two strong men in Lebanon, Émile Eddé and Béchara El-Khoury , fought a power struggle for his successor in his absence. Adib was unable to cope with this pressure and he resigned on May 5, 1927. Adib was still politically active and on March 25, 1930 was again head of government. This time through March 9, 1932. Adib has a number of known relatives. The best known is Camille Chamoun (President of Lebanon), who was his nephew.

additional

One of the political groups that later upheld Adib's idea that the Lebanese were not part of the Arab nation was the Guardians of the Cedars .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Asher Kaufman: Reviving Phenicia. The Search of Identity in Lebanon. IB Tauris Publishers 2004, p. 62. ISBN 1-86064-982-3
2. ↑ Meir Zamir: Lebanon's Quest. The Search for a National Identity, 1926-1939. IB Tauris Publishers 2000, p. 48. ISBN 1-86064-553-4
3. ^ Caroline Attie: Struggle in the Levant. Lebanon in the 1950s. IB Tauris Publishers 2004, p. 43. ISBN 1-86064-467-8

predecessor	Office	successor
- Émile Eddé	Prime Minister of Lebanon 1926–1927 1930–1932	Béchara El-Khoury Charles Debbas