Mustafa Fahmi Pasha

Mustafa Fahmi Pasha

Mustafa Fahmi Pascha ( Arabic مصطفى فهمي باشا, DMG Muṣṭafā Fahmī Bāšā , also Mustafa Fahmi Basha ; * 1840 in Crete , Ottoman Empire ; † September 14, 1914 in Alexandria , Khedivat Egypt ) was an Egyptian politician who was Prime Minister of the Khedivat Egypt between 1891 and 1893 and again from 1895 to 1908 .

Life

Mustafa Fahmi Pascha held numerous government offices during the reign of the Khedive Tawfiq and in 1879 became Minister of Public Works in the government of Prime Minister Muhammad Sharif Pasha . Subsequently, in 1879 he replaced Muhammad Sharif Pasha as Foreign Minister in the government of Prime Minister Riyad Pasha and held this ministerial office from 1881 to 1882 in the second government of Prime Minister Muhammad Sharif Pasha. In addition, he briefly served as Minister of Justice in 1882. In the second government of Prime Minister Nubar Pascha, he held the post of finance minister between 1884 and 1887 and was then interior minister for the first time from 1887 to 1888 and also minister of war and navy between 1887 and 1891.

On May 12, 1891, Fahmi Pascha replaced Riyad Pascha as Prime Minister of the Khedive Egypt and held this office until January 15, 1893 after the reign of the Khedive Abbas Hilmi II , whereupon Husain Fachri Pascha temporarily succeeded him. During his first term as prime minister, he again held the office of interior minister from 1891 to 1893. In the third government of Prime Minister Nubar Pasha, he served again as Minister of War and Minister of the Navy between 1894 and 1895.

As the successor to Nubar Pascha, Mustafa Fahmi Pascha took over the office of Prime Minister of the Khedivat Egypt again on November 12, 1895 and held this office for thirteen years until November 12, 1908, after which Boutros Ghali Pascha became his successor. In his second government he was again Minister of the Interior from 1895 to 1908. During his tenure, the so-called Faschoda crisis occurred in 1898 after a small French corps had built a fort in Faschoda on the White Nile . However, these troops were ordered to retreat by Herbert Kitchener , the British Army Commander in Chief in the Mahdi Uprising . After negotiations, France, which wanted to establish a coherent colonial empire from West to East Africa, withdrew its troops. These imperialist tensions between France and Great Britain continued for several years until the threat of an imperialist German Empire led to an agreement on the spheres of interest of the two great powers France and Great Britain, the Entente cordiale , concluded in 1904 , with which the respective colonial relations were mutually recognized .

His daughter Safiya Zaghloul was a well-known political activist of the Wafd party of her husband Saad Zaghlul , who was Minister of Education, Minister of Justice and, in 1924, Prime Minister of Egypt.

Web link

• Entry in rulers.org

Background literature

• The big Ploetz. The encyclopedia of world history , Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 35th edition, 2008, p. 1338, ISBN 978-3-525-32008-2

Individual evidence

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