Amin al-Hafiz

Amin al- Hafiz ( b. 1921 in Aleppo, Syria, † December 17, 2009 ) was a Syrian general and politician.

Biography

After a failed coup attempt in 1962, belonging to the right wing of the Baath Party officer in the Syrian army was initially banned as military attaché at the Syrian embassy in Argentina. He should also have the later Israeli spy Eli Cohen know what Amin al- Hafiz but has repeatedly denied.

Major General Amin al- Hafiz, since the rise of the Baath Party in March 1963 Minister of Interior and Deputy Prime Minister, proposed in July 1963 down an attempted coup by coalescing with the Baathists Nasserist ( Jassem Alwan ) and since then until August 1963 also Minister of Defence. He was Head of State of Syria, as the current incumbent Louai al - Atassi in 1963 overthrown by another military coup: From July 27, 1963 on, he was Chairman of the National Revolutionary Command Council, from May 13, 1964 Chairman of the Presidential Council ( president). At the same time he was on 12 November 1963 to May 13, 1964 and October 4, 1964 to May 23, 1965 head of government. The party presidency in May 1964, however, he had to first dispose to Shibli al - Aysami. Al- Hafiz fancied dominated by the right wing of the Baath Party cabinet that several coup attempts on the part of the left wing of the party and the Nasserist had to defend himself.

On February 23, 1966, he was overthrown by a military coup of the generals Salah Jadid and Hafez al -Assad, from the Nureddin al - Atassi Mustafa emerged as the new President.

Hafiz was arrested, but released in 1967, then went into exile, first in Lebanon and then moved in 1968 to Iraq, where he lived in the following 35 years. In 1971 he was sentenced by the Syrian regime to death in absentia. The Iraqi Baath Party instrumentalized him and others who had fled from Syria Baathists to install a Syrian exile Baath Party and a Front for the Liberation of Syria (1984). After he returned to Syria in 2003, Hafiz lived again in his native city of Aleppo where he died in a military hospital.

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  • The International Who's Who 1988-89. 52nd edition, Europa Publications Limited, London 1988
Ba'ath Party (Syrian-dominated faction) Lu'ay al-Atassi Hashim al-Atassi Bahij al-Khatib Khalid al-Azm Taj al-Din al-Hasani Jamil al-Ulshi Haqqi al-Azm Jamil Mardam Bey Nasuhi al-Bukhari Hassan al-Hakim Husni al-Barazi Bashir al-Azma Salah al-Din al-Bitar Mahmoud al-Ayyubi Muhammad Ali al-Halabi Abdul Rauf al-Kasm Mahmoud Zuabi Muhammad Mustafa Mero Adel Safar Wael Nader al-Halqi
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