Abdel Hamid Badawi

Abdul Hamid Badawi ( Egyptian Arabic عبد الحميد بدوى, DMG ʿ Abd al - Hamid Badawi, born March 13, 1887 in Alexandria, † August 4, 1965 in Cairo ) was an Egyptian jurist. He was 1940 and 1945 financial foreign ministers of the Egyptian government, and from 1946 until his death Judge at the International Court of Justice.

Life

Abdul Hamid Badawi was born in 1887 in Alexandria and graduated in 1908 to study law at the Khedivischen law school in Cairo from. Four years later he earned his doctorate at the University of Grenoble. After his return to Egypt, he worked as a lecturer at the right Khedivischen high school before he joined the government service.

At the beginning of the 1920s he worked among other things as Secretary General of the Egyptian government, as well as a royal adviser, and was involved in the drafting of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Egypt, which came into force in April 1923. In addition, he was largely responsible for the design of 1936 finalized the Treaty of Montreux, with which Turkey regained sovereignty over the Dardanelles, the Sea of ​​Marmara and the Bosphorus. A year after signing the contract, he led the conference that led to the abolition of the capitulations of the Ottoman Empire.

In 1940 he took over the Ministry of Finance and five years later the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Egyptian government. In 1946 he was elected judge of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, where he worked until his death. From 1955 to 1958 he was Vice- President of the Court. From 1948 he was a member of the Institut de Droit International. He died in 1965 in Cairo.