Jamal al-Atassi

Jamal al - Atassi ( Arabic جمال الأتاسي ), occasionally Jemal el- Atassi ( * 1922 in Homs, Syria, † 2000 in Damascus, Syria) was a Syrian politician.

Baathist

Al- Atassi studied at Damascus University and received his PhD in 1947 in psychology. Immediately thereafter, he joined, founded in the same year Baath party and was chief editor of the party newspaper, whose first chief ideologue. He was a zealous supporter of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Egyptian- Syrian Union 1958-1961 and the experiment of a new edition of the Union of 1963. Under the Baath founder and Premier Salah ad-Din al - Bitar was al - Atassi in March 1963 information Minister, but resigned after the failure of the Baathist - Nasserist alliance already in May 1963 back.

Nasserist

Al- Atassi instead founded in 1964 a Syrian branch of the Nasserist Arab Socialist Union ( ASU), while his cousin Noureddine al - Atassi in 1966 became president as a result of a coup against innerbaathistischen Bitar. Against his cousin Jamal al - Atassi in 1970 supported an additional innerbaathistischen coup, in consequence of Hafiz al -Assad became president. Assad formed in 1972 with al - Atassis Nasserist, another ex- Baathists and the Syrian Communist Party initially a coalition in the form of the National Progressive Front ( NPF ), but in 1973 left al - Atassi the NPF again.

While a part of the ASU remained under the original name and the leadership of Fawzi Kiyali (since 1984 Safwan al - Qudsi ) in the NPF, founded al - Atassi and his followers, the Democratic Arab Socialist Union and with other opposition parties in 1980 (including with Ibrahim Makhous ' Democratic Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party ), the National Demokratiewegung as a counterpart to the NPF. Nevertheless, he was officially honored at his funeral as a patriot. On the occasion of al - Atassis death was established in 2000 under the leadership of his daughter Souheïr Atassi and Nureddin son Ali al- Atassi re- democracy movement ( Atassi Forum), which was banned in 2001.