Fouad Bey Hamza

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Fouad Bey Hamza ( Arabic فؤاد حمزة) (* 1899 in ʿAbaih in Lebanon ; † November 22, 1952 in Beirut ) was a Saudi Arabian diplomat .

Life

Fouad Hamza was born into a Druze family. From 1928 to 1933 he was an advisor to Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud . On May 13, 1934, Fuad Hamza was the representative of Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz . As Foreign Secretary, he asked the British envoy in Jeddah , Sir Andrew Ryan (1876-1949) to negotiate border issues with the United Kingdom.

In 1938, the personal secretary of Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud , Sheik Yussuf Yassin al-Hud, negotiated the delivery of weapons with Ferrostaal AG. Neither economic nor political profit prospects could be presented to the company, which is why no contract was signed. Al-Hud proposed the delivery of 15,000 rifles and a long-term loan to the Otto Wolff company in Hamburg. In a memorandum of July 23, 1938 by the Foreign Policy Office of the NSDAP , the arms trade was advocated because of the increased influence of the German Reich. Werner Otto von Hentig and Ernst Woermann cited economic and political reasons against the arms deliveries. They feared that Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud would eventually use his arms against the Axis powers because of his dependence on the British Empire . From 23 to 27 August 1938 Hamza negotiated in the Reich Foreign Ministry in Berlin . Fu'ad Hamza did not broker arms for the Arab uprising , as Hamza was assumed by the German side that he would report the project to the British mandate authority in Palestine . At the beginning of 1939 Fouad Bey Hamza was the envoy of Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz at a Palestine conference, invited to dinner with David Ben-Gurion at St John Philby.

With the Iraqi envoy Tawfiq al-Suwaidi (1892–1968), Hamza wanted to discuss an end to the League of Nations mandate for Syria and Lebanon with the French Foreign Minister in 1938 . He fought off the pan-Arabism that was presented and claimed that this was a matter within the borders of Syria.

On November 3, 1939, Sheikh Hamza presented his letter of accreditation as the envoy of Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud to Albert Lebrun . Finally, he held the title of Ambassadeur du Royaume d'Arabie saoudienne à Vichy . In early 1947, Sheikh Hamza was the envoy of Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud in talks on the post-war order of the Middle East with James F. Byrnes in Washington, DC

In April 1947, Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud appointed Fuad as the Saudi Arabian Minister for Economic Development.

Publications

  • Fu'ad Hamza, al-Bildd al-'Arabiyya al-Su'udiyya, Mecca 1936;
predecessor Office successor
Saudi Arabian Ambassador to France
1939–1942 		Medhat Sheikh el-Ard
Assad Al-Faqih Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States
January – April 1947 		Abdullah Al-Khayyal
Saudi Arabian Minister for Economic Development
1947–1952 		Khalid bin Muhammad Al-Qusaibi

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konrad Schliephake, The Relationships between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , Edition Shanneik, 2001 - 148 pp, p.45; [1] ; [2]
  2. ↑ Husain M. Albaharna, The legal status of the Arabian Gulf States: a study of their treaty
  3. ↑ Gerhard Schulz, Pierre Bertaux, The Great Crisis of the Thirties : - 1985 - 280 p., Page 187
  4. ^ William B. Quandt, Saudi Arabia in the 1980s: foreign policy, security, and oil p. 31
  5. ^ Haim Shaked, Itamar Rabinovich, The Middle East and the United States: perceptions and policies
  6. ↑ [3] (PDF; 5.6 MB) [4]
personal data
SURNAME Hamza, Fouad Bey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES فؤاد حمزة (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saudi Arabian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH ʿAbaih , Lebanon
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1952
Place of death Beirut