Mahmoud Jam

Mahmoud Jam

Mahmud Dscham also Mahmud Modir al-Molk ( Persian محمود جم; * 1884 in Tabriz ; † 1969 in Tehran ) was a senator, ambassador to Egypt and Italy, governor of Kerman and Khorasan , finance minister, interior minister, court minister and prime minister of Iran .

Life

Mahmud Jam was born in Tabriz in 1884. He began his professional career as an apprentice to a French pharmacist in Tabriz. After completing his apprenticeship, he left the city and worked for the next eight years as a translator and secretary at the French embassy in Tehran .

In 1919, Prime Minister Hassan Vosough appointed him head of state grain storage and distribution. Prime Minister Hassan Pirnia appointed him Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1920.

In the summer of 1920 Mahmud Dscham became a member of the Komiteh Ahan (Iron Committee) founded by Seyyed Zia al Din Tabatabai . After the coup against Prime Minister Fathollah Akbar Sepahdar in 1921, he took over the post of Foreign Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Seyyed Zia al Din Tabatabai. In the cabinet of Prime Minister Reza Khan , Mahmud Jam was Minister of Finance.

After Ahmad Shah was deposed and Reza Khan was appointed Shah by the Iranian parliament, Mahmud Jam became governor of Kerman and later of Khorasan.

In 1933 he took over the Ministry of the Interior and in December 1935 Mahmud Jam became Prime Minister. He was to hold this office until October 1939. After his replacement as Prime Minister by Ahmad Matin-Daftari , Mahmud Jam took over the office of Minister of the Court. In this capacity he witnessed the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in 1941 , the abdication of Reza Shah and the appointment of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as his successor. In September 1941 he resigned as court minister and became ambassador to Egypt. In 1948 he took over the office of court minister again.

After working as the Iranian ambassador to Italy, he became a member of the Senate, the second parliamentary chamber of Iran that was newly founded in 1949. He remained a senator until his death in 1969.

literature

• Alireza Avsati: Iran in the last 3 Centuries . Intishārāt-i Pā'kitāb, Tehran 2003, ISBN 964-93406-6-1 (vol. 1), ISBN 964-93406-5-3 (vol. 2) (Persian).
• Cyrus Ghani: Iran and the rise of Reza Shah. From Qajar collapse to Pahlavi rule . IB Tauris, London et al. 2000, ISBN 1-86064-258-6 , p. 201.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cyrus Ghani: Iran and the rise of Reza Shah. IB Tauris, 2000, p. 152.