Aden Abdullah Osman Daar
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar (* 1908 in Beledweyne, † June 8, 2007 in Nairobi ), also called Aden Adde, was from 1960 to 1967 the first President of Somalia.
Early years
Osman came from a poor family from the clan of the Hawiye in the town of Beledweyne in the former Italian Somaliland. When he was 14 years old, an Italian take care of him and gave him lessons. In 1929 he was hired by the Italian administration. He worked there until he opened a shop in 1941 in his hometown.
Politician
In 1944, he joined, founded after the conquest of Somaliland by Britain 1943 Party Somali Youth League ( SYL ). In contrast to their leader Haji Mohammed Hussein, he sat up a good working relationship with the British and in 1950 returned as a trustee Italians. 1951 Osman member of the Territorial Council in 1953 and its vice-president. Hussein went to Cairo in 1953 and Osman Abdullahi Issa took over together with the leadership of the SYL. From 1954 to 1956 he was its president, before moving to President of the Legislative Council elections in 1956. As Hussein 1958, the SYL left to form a new party, Osman was SYL- Chairman again.
President
On 26 June 1960 British Somaliland became independent on 1 July 1960, the Italian part. Osman became the first president of the Republic of Somalia consisting of two parts. He was regarded as a moderate and level-headed politicians, however, who had at least rhetorically represented an aggressive foreign policy under the pressure of a strong nationalist current in the country.
Since the territorial claims of Somalia (see Greater Somalia ) directed simultaneously against Ethiopia, Kenya and French Somaliland, the country was in the region rapidly isolated. Osman continued good relations with the Soviet Union and came over with his Prime Minister Abdirashid Ali Shermarke in conflict, which he dismissed in 1964. On June 10, 1967, he was replaced for lost presidential elections Shermarke as president. According to the Constitution, he received a seat for life in the National Assembly. He never left until shortly before his death the country.
Under the authoritarian government Siad Barre, he was temporarily detained.
After the fall of the government in 1991, Osman was living on his farm in Jenale in southern Somalia. On 19 May 2007, reported, Osman lay in Nairobi, where he had gone for the purpose of medical treatment, in critical condition in a coma. On June 8, 2007, he died in the hospital. He was buried in Mogadishu, the Mogadishu airport was renamed in his honor in Aden Adde International Airport.