Zuhair Mashariqa
Muhammad Zuhair Maschariqa , internationally also Masharqa or Mashariqa ( Arabic محمد زهير مشارقة; occasionally also Suhajr Mascharikah ; * November 23, 1938 in Aleppo , Syrian Republic ; † April 23, 2007 in Damascus , Syria ) was a Syrian politician. From 1984 to 2005 he was one of the vice-presidents of his country and from 2005 to 2006 the sole vice-president.
Life
The Aleppo-born Sunni had studied law in Damascus and worked as a manager in business. As a member of the Ba'ath Party, after the “ corrective movement ” under President Hafiz al-Assad in the 1970s, he was first appointed Governor of Hama and then Minister of Education, before becoming Deputy General Secretary of the Syrian Ba'ath Party . Together with Rifaat al-Assad and Abd al-Halim Chaddam , he was appointed Vice President on March 11 and 12, 1984, respectively.
He remained Vice President under Bashar al-Assad (since 2000) and thus held office longer than Rifaat (until 1998) and Chaddam (until 2005). For health reasons, however, Maschariqa finally resigned in 2006, and Faruk al-Sharaa became the new Vice President .
literature
- David Commins, David W. Lesch: Historical Dictionary of Syria . Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, 235
- Hanswilhelm Haefs (ed.): Der Fischer Weltalmanach '85 . Fischer, Frankfurt (Main) 1984, page 205
- Hanswilhelm Haefs (Ed.): Der Fischer Weltalmanach '86 . Fischer, Frankfurt (Main) 1985, page 206
Web links
- Zuhair Masharqa (obituary in The Herald )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date of birth according to LCAuth n89114692 , query date: August 6th, 2018. (He died at the age of 68 and not, as stated in the obituaries, at the age of 69.)
- ↑ pravda.ru of April 25, 2007: Syria's former vice presdent Zuhair Masharqa dies
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maschariqa, Zuhair |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maschariqa, Muhammad Zuhair (full name); Mashariqa, Zuhair; Masharqa, Zuhair; Mascharikah, Suhajr; محمد زهير مشارقة |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Syrian politician and longtime vice president |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aleppo |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 2007 |
| Place of death | Damascus |