Muhammad Daoud

Muhammad Daoud Abbasi ( Arabic محمد داوود العباسي; * 1914 in Silwan , East Jerusalem ; † January 19, 1972 in Amman , Jordan ) was a Jordanian brigadier general in the armed forces of Jordan and a politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Jordan for ten days during the events of so-called Black September in the Jordanian Civil War in 1970 .

Life

Daoud grew up in the League of Nations mandate area of ​​Palestine and in 1948 became a police officer in Tulkarm . 1952 was a member of a delegation negotiating a ceasefire agreement with Israel and was chairman of that delegation in 1958, before he was arrested by the Israeli army for 17 days during the Six Day War in June 1967 and then deported to Amman . He then served as Brigadier General of the Jordanian Armed Forces in Jordan as Chairman of the Israeli-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission.

After the events of the so-called Black September in the Jordanian Civil War, Daoud was appointed Prime Minister on September 16, 1970 by King Hussein I as the successor to Abd al-Munʿim ar-Rifaʿi . At the same time he took over the office of foreign minister in his government. Despite efforts to ease the unrest initiated by the terrorist organization Black September , the conflict escalated. After only ten days in office, he resigned on September 26, 1970 and was replaced by Ahmad Toukan . He then went to Egypt and discussed the political situation in Jordan with the then Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser , who however died two days later on September 28, 1970.

Daoud himself was diagnosed with a brain tumor in a hospital in Cairo at the end of 1971 . After a subsequent operation in Paris , he returned to Jordan on January 10, 1972, where he finally died on January 19, 1972 in a military hospital in Amman.

Web link

• Harris M. Lentz: Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge Publishing, 2014, ISBN 1-1342-6497-6 , p. 1681.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jordan: Prime Ministers (rulers.org)
2. ↑ Jordan: Foreign Ministers (rulers.org)