Hassan Muhammad Makki

Hassan Muhammad Makkī (born December 22, 1933 in al-Hudaida , North Yemen ; † June 9, 2016 in Cairo ; Arabic حسن محمد مكي) was a Yemeni politician and multiple economic and foreign minister as well as briefly prime minister of the Yemeni Arab Republic in 1974 (North Yemen).

Coming from a respected and well-to-do family and first sent to Egypt and then to Italy for training, Hassan Makki studied at the University of Rome from 1953 to 1956 and received his doctorate in economics from the University of Bologna in 1960 . Back in Yemen, he was an advisor in the Ministry of Economic Affairs from 1960 to 1962.

With the fall of the monarchy, Makki rose to become Deputy Minister of Economics of the young republic and Director of the Yemeni Bank for Reconstruction and Development in September 1962. In the cabinet of Abdul Rahman al-Iriani, he finally held the Ministry of Economic Affairs himself from 1963 to 1964 . Briefly in 1964 and again from April to September 1966 and from 1967 to 1968 Hassan al-Makki was foreign minister in Hassan al-Amri's cabinets . When he tried to mediate during an uprising by Nasserist officers and parts of the army in Sanaa in 1968, he was seriously wounded. He was then sent to Italy (1968–1970) and the Federal Republic of Germany (1970–1972) as ambassador. Kadi Abdullah al-Hagri called him back in 1972 and served as deputy prime minister and economics minister in his cabinet; and when al-Hagri resigned on February 10, 1974, Makki himself was appointed to form a government on March 3 by President Abdul Rahman al-Iriani.

In June 1974 Makki al-Iriani's fall and remained in the new cabinet of Muhsin al-Aini's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economics at least until October 1974. He was then sent to the UN as Yemen's Permanent Envoy (1974-1976, replaced by al-Aini) and was also ambassador to the USA and Canada (1975-1976). From 1975 to 1976 he was also President of the University of Sanaa. Once again he was ambassador to Italy (1977–1979) before briefly becoming Foreign Minister again in the cabinet of Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani from 1979 to 1980. In 1980, Makki was again deputy prime minister and minister of economics in Abdul Karim al-Iryani's successor cabinet, and initially remained so when Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani formed a cabinet again in 1983 (until 1984).

An attempted assassination against him failed during the crisis, which from May to July 1994 led to the southern secession. His driver and a bodyguard fell victim to the attack, Makki was unharmed.

He died in Cairo on June 9, 2016.

literature

• Gustav Fochler-Hauke (Ed.): Der Fischer Weltalmanach 1975 , page 381. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1974
• Lothar Rathmann : History of the Arabs - From the beginnings to the present , Volume 6 (The struggle for the development path in the Arab world), page 315. Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1983
• Robin Leonard Bidwell : Dictionary of Modern Arab History , 262--24. London / New York 1998
• Robert D. Burrowes: Historical Dictionary of Yemen , pp. 231–23. Lanham 2010
• The International Who's Who 1988-89 , page 972. Europa Publications Limited, London 1988
• Sabih M. Shukri (Ed.): The International Who's Who of the Arab World , p. 338. London 1983

Web link

• rulers.org: Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of Yemen (Sana)

Individual evidence

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