Abdullah al-Sallal

Abdullah and Abdullah al - Sallal (Arabic: عبد الله السلال, DMG ʿ Abdu llāh as- Sallal, * 1917, Sanaa, North Yemen, † March 5, 1994 ) was a Yemeni army officer and politician. From September 27, 1962 to November 5, 1967, he was president and prime minister on several occasions he founded the Yemen Arab Republic.

In 1934, the Kingdom of Yemen had a ( directed mainly against Saudi Arabia) military alliance with the Kingdom of Iraq closed. Abdullah as- Sallal belonged to that first group of Yemeni officers who received their military training in Iraq because of this alliance. On his return to Yemen in 1939 initially imprisoned, he continued his military service in 1940 continued until 1948. Because of suspected involvement in the assassination of King Muhammad Yahya Hamid ad-Din, he was imprisoned again in 1948 and in 1955 released, whereupon he again resumed his military service. From 1959 to 1961 he served as governor of al - Hudaydah responsible for the expansion of the port, but he was re-arrested in 1961 on suspicion of involvement in an assassination attempt on King Ahmad ibn Yahya.

The on September 19, 1962 the following new king on the throne Muhammad al- Badr promoted as- Sallal to colonel and made ​​him the chief of staff and commander of his bodyguard, but already on 26 September plunged as- Sallal and Republican officers the monarchy. Muhammad survived injured and fled into the country to the north remained royalist tribes, as- Sallal was president of the Revolutionary Council and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic and appointed himself Marshal. Between 1962 and 1967 he was also three times Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.

In North Yemen Civil War against Saudi Arabia, Jordan and some of Great Britain supported trailers Muhammad al- Badrs be as- Sallal allied with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser and south Yemeni rebels. A union with Egypt succeeded him as little as a victory over the royalists. From August 1965 to August 1966 he lived in Egypt. After the recovery, under an agreement with Nasser Saudi Arabia and in the face of defeat in the Six Day War retreat of the Egyptians he was increasingly within the Revolutionary Command Council in isolation. Close confidante Hassan al - Amri turned away. During a stay in the Soviet Union, where he had sought military assistance, he was deposed. Successor at the head of the republic was Abdul Rahman al - Iriani. Sallal found asylum first in Iraq and then in Egypt, but was allowed to return under an amnesty in 1980.

Swell

  • Lothar Rathmann (ed.): History of the Arabs - From the beginnings to the present, Volume 3, page 223 Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1974
  • Lothar Rathmann (ed.): History of the Arabs - From the beginnings to the present, Volume 6, page 305 Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1983
  • Fischer World Almanac '66, page 165 Frankfurt / Main 1965
  • The International Who's Who 1988-89, page 1328. Fifty- Second Edition. Europe Publications Limited 1988 London

Weblink

  • Abdallah al - Sallal, International Biographical Archive 21/1994 of 16 May 1994 ( lm), in Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available )
  • Biography in the LookLex Encyclopaedia of the Orient
  • Short biography on rulers.org

Abdullah as- Sallal (1962-1967) | Abdul Rahman al - Iriani (1967-1974) | Ibrahim al - Hamdi (1974-1977) | Ahmed Hussein al- Ghaschmi (1977-1978) | Abd al- Karim Abdullah al - Araschi (1978 ) | Ali Abdullah Saleh ( 1978-1990 )

Abdullah as- Sallal (1962-1963) | Abdul Latif Dayfallah (1963 ) | Abdul Rahman al - Iriani ( 1963-1964 ) | Hassan al- Amri (1964 ) | Hamoud al - Dschaifi ( 1964-1965 ) | Hassan al- Amri (1965 ) | Ahmad Muhammad Numan (1965 ) | Abdullah as- Sallal (1965 ) | Hassan al- Amri ( 1965-1966 ) | Abdullah as- Sallal ( 1966-1967 ) | Muhsin Ahmad al - Aini (1967 ) | Hassan al - Amri (1967-1969) | Abdul Salam Sabrah (1969 ) | Muhsin Ahmad al - Aini (1969 ) | Abdullah Kurshumi ( 1969-1970 ) | Muhsin Ahmad al - Aini ( 1970-1971 ) | Abdul Salam Sabrah (1971 ) | Ahmad Muhammad Numan (1971 ) | Hassan al- Amri (1971 ) | Abdul Salam Sabrah (1971 ) | Muhsin Ahmad al - Aini ( 1971-1972 ) | Kadhi Abdullah al - Hagri ( 1972-1974 ) | Muhammad Hassan Makki (1974 ) | Muhsin Ahmad al - Aini (1974-1975) | Abdul Latif Dayfallah (1975 ) | Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani ( 1975-1980 ) | Abdul Karim al - Iryani (1980-1983 ) | Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani ( 1983-1990 )

  • Man
  • Yemeni
  • President ( North Yemen )
  • Secretary of State (Yemen)
  • Politicians (Yemen)
  • Born 1917
  • Died in 1994
DIN 31635 Al Hudaydah Ahmad bin Yahya Muhammad al-Badr Hassan al-Amri Abdul Rahman al-Iryani Hassan Muhammad Makki
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