Chadli Bendjedid
Chadli Bendjedid ( Arabic الشاذلي بن جديد asch-Schadhili ibn Jadid , DMG aš-Šāḏilī b. Ǧadīd ; * April 14, 1929 in Bouteldja , El Tarf province ; † October 6, 2012 in Algiers ) was Algerian Presidentfrom 1979 to 1992.
Bendjedid was born in 1929 into a modestly affluent rural family in northeast Algeria. Bendjedid received his school education in Bône , where he came into contact with the then comparatively cosmopolitan urban society.
For lack of other perspectives, he served in the French army and fought in the Indochina War . He made it to the NCO.
In 1954 he joined the FLN on Algerian soil and served as an officer in Wilaya 2 . Bendjedid served in the course of the FLN army set up outside the country and rose to colonel during the Algerian War . After independence he was under Houari Boumedienne commander of military district 2 (Oran) of the Algerian army . He was his successor after his death and was elected president in 1979. When there was severe social unrest in 1988 due to high unemployment and the housing shortage, he agreed to democratize the country. When the Islamists ( FIS ) won the first round of free elections in December 1991 , the military staged a coup, prevented them from taking power and forced Bendjedid to resign on January 11, 1992, which sparked a civil war that lasted for years .
literature
- Bernhard Schmid : Algeria - Frontline State in Global War? Neoliberalism , Social Movements and Islamist Ideology in a North African Country. Unrast Verlag , Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-019-6
- Chadli Bendjedid , In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 39/2013 from September 24, 2013, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Former Algerian President Bendjedid died ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ John Ruedy: Modern Algeria - The Origins and Development of a Nation , 2nd edition. Bloomington, 2005, pp. 232f
- ^ Gilbert Meynier: Histoire Intérieur du FLN 1954 - 1962. Paris, 2004, p. 150
- ↑ United States Department of State : Algeria (accessed January 10, 2012)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bendjedid, Chadli |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Algerian President (1979–1992) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bouteldja |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 2012 |
| Place of death | Algiers |