Shukri Ghanem

Muhammad Shukri Ghanim or Shukri Ghanem Al- Mesmary (Arabic شكري محمد غانم, DMG Sukri Muḥammad Ganim; born October 9, 1942 in Tripoli, Libya, † 29 April, 2012 Vienna, Austria ) was from June 2003 to March 2006 the Secretary-General of the General People's Committee of Libya, which is comparable with the office of Prime Minister. It was used by Muammar al - Gaddafi on 14 June 2003 in this position. From March 2006 to mid-May 2011 was Ghanim chairman of the state-owned company National Oil Corporation and thus de facto oil minister of the country.

During the civil war in Libya, Al Jazeera reported on 17 February 2011 about rumors that Shukri Ghanim was missing and fled. However, these reports turned out to be wrong. On 16 May 2011 several media reported that Ghanim had fled to Tunisia, and on June 1, confirmed Ghanim in Rome that he had renounced the regime and consider to join the opposition.

Ghanims body was found, according to the police on the morning of April 29, 2012 in Vienna against 8.40 clock a few hundred meters from his home in the amount of " Copa Cagrana " in the New Danube impulsive. First, however, the family stated that he had been found in his apartment. The autopsy showed drowning as cause of death, no evidence of foul play. The body Ghanims was transferred to the funeral to Tripoli, where he was buried in a small circle on May 4 ..

Ghanim and his family lived in Vienna last emperor mills. From 1993 to 2001 he worked for OPEC, including as head of research and thus as Deputy Secretary General. As oil minister from 2006 to 2011 Ghanim also regularly stayed at OPEC meetings in Vienna.