Ahmad al-Khatib

Sayd Ahmed Hasan al - Khatib (Arabic: سيد أحمد الحسن الخطيب; * 1933 Salkhad at Suweida, Syrian Republic, † 1982 in Damascus ) was a Syrian politician. As a civilian member of the ruling Baath Party, he served 1970/71 four months as president.

The Druze between grown Sunni had studied from 1951 in Damascus, literature and history, after initially working as a secondary school teacher and became secretary general of the Syrian teachers' union. Even at the university he had the founders of the Baath Party met, whose member he had become early. Despite a short first appointment to the Presidential Council under Amin al- Hafiz al - Khatib 1965-1966 made ​​in the torn wing party struggles he made a late career when it military ruler Hafez al -Assad after the so-called " corrective movement " on November 18, 1970 appointed to the formal head of state of Syria. He should replace the ousted president Nureddin al - Atassi. After only four months, his position of Assad himself was taken, Khatib was born on February 22, 1971 instead spokesman for the Syrian people Council ( Parliament Speaker ), which he remained until December 26 of the same year. He was also a 1971 member of the Regional Command of the Syrian Baath Party since May. After that he was appointed in 1972 by the Presidential Council of the Egyptian- Libyan- Syrian Arab Federation republics as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of a Union government to be formed. The project failed, but in 1973 and the Union Premier had hitherto never any real power, even if this office formally Khatib further held until 1975.

Ahmed al - Khatib was married to Souraya al - Khatib since 1959 and had two sons and a daughter.