Louai al-Atassi
Louai al-Atassi (* 1926 in Homs , Syria ; † November 24, 2003 ibid), more rarely Luayy or Lu'ai el-Atasi ( Arabic لؤي الأتاسي, DMG Luʾai al-Atāsī ) was a Syrian general and politician. From March 9, 1963 to July 27, 1963, Lieutenant General Louai al-Atassi was the interim president of Syria.
Military career
Louai al-Atassi graduated from the Military Academy in Homs and took part in the Palestinian War as an army soldier in 1948/49 . As a strong advocate of the Arab unity and supporter of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser , he opposed the dissolution of the Egyptian-Syria Union in 1961 , but became garrison commander of Aleppo , where he met the Nasserist officer Jassem Alwan . After an attempted coup in early April 1962, al-Atassi was initially "banished" as a military attaché to the Syrian embassy in Washington, before he was able to return after the coup of March 8, 1963 and as a compromise candidate for the Baath party and the Nasserist state and government Became army chief .
politics
Louai's relative Jamal al-Atassi became Minister of Information.
As chairman of the National Revolutionary Command Council , which initially included 12 Baathists and 8 Nasserists, Louai al-Atassi went to Cairo together with the Baath founder and Prime Minister Salah ad-Din al-Bitar to negotiate an Egyptian-Iraqi language with Nasser - To lead the Syrian Union of Three . When negotiations stalled in July 1963 and right-wing Baathists began to oust Nasserists from the army and state, the Nasserists (including Jamal al-Atassi) resigned from the government and Colonel Jassem Alwan attempted a coup with Nasser's approval.
Retirement
Alwan's coup was put down by the then Interior Minister Amin al-Hafiz , who also forced Atassi to resign and became head of state himself. Louai's relative Nureddin Mustafa al-Atassi became the new interior minister (later also vice-premier and vice-president).
Louai al-Atassi then withdrew to Homs and from political life and therefore survived the fall of Nureddin in 1970, which had ousted al-Hafiz in 1966.
literature
- Sami Moubayed: Steel & Silk: Men and Women Who Shaped Syria 1900–2000. Cune Press, Seattle 2005
- The International Who's Who 1988-1989. 52nd edition, Europa Publications Limited 1988 London
Web links
Before independence: Hashim al-Atassi | Bahij al-Khatib | Chalid al-Azm | Taj Eddine el-Hasani | Jamil al-Ulschi | Ata al-Ayyubi | Shukri al-Quwatli
After independence: Husni az-Za'im | Hashim al-Atassi | Fawzi Selu | Adib ash-Shishakli | Hashim al-Atassi | Shukri al-Quwatli | Maamun al-Kuzbari | Izzat an nut | Nazim al-Qudsi | Louai al-Atassi | Amin al-Hafiz | Nureddin al-Atassi | Ahmed al-Khatib | Hafiz al-Assad | Abd al-Halim Haddam | Bashar al-Assad
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| SURNAME | al-Atassi, Louai |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | al-Atasi, Luayy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Syrian general and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Homs , Syria |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 24, 2003 |
| Place of death | Homs , Syria |