Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo

Jean -Baptiste Ouedraogo (* June 30, 1942 in Kaya ) was 1982-1983 President of Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso.

Doctor

Ouedraogo is Catholic and belongs to the Mossi, the largest population group in the then French Upper Volta. He studied in the Ivory Coast and medicine in France. From 1976 to 1977 he was chief physician of the children's ward of a hospital in the capital, Ouagadougou. After that he went to 1981 to Mulhouse, specializing in pediatrics. After his return from France he became in 1982 chief physician of the military hospital of Ouagadougou in February.

Head of state

On November 7, 1982 1980 Come in a coup to power Saye Zerbo was overthrown by a new coup. Major Dr. Ouedraogo became chairman of the ruling Military Council Conseil du Salut du Peuple (CSP ) and on November 26 heads of state and head of government. The latter took office in January 1983, the Captain Thomas Sankara. He was dismissed because of suspected sympathy for Libya on 17 May 1983 by Ouedraogo and temporarily detained.

The end of May announced Ouedraogo on a new constitution and elections within three months, the CSP was dissolved. His term ended on August 4, 1983 by a new coup that was organized by the future President Blaise Compaoré with the help of Libya and Sankara made ​​to Ouédraogos successor.

More career

Ouedraogo returned to medicine and founded on 14 May 1992, the Hospital Notre- Dame de la Paix in Ouagadougou. The 1980 overthrown of Zerbo ex-president Sangoulé Lamizana died on 27 May 2005 with 89 years in this clinic.

Swell

Fischer World Almanac - biographies of contemporary history since 1945 Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1985, ISBN 3-596-24553-2. .