Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai

Ahmad Hussein al- Khudayir as- Samarra'i, occasionally Khudajir, al - Khudaijir, al - Khodair, el- Khodeir, el- Chodair or Chodajer ( born July 2, 1941 in Samarra, Iraq) was an Iraqi politician and the last Prime Minister of the former ruling Baath party.

First, Ahmad Hussein al- Khudayir was after the Baathist overturns in July 1968 briefly a member of the Central Council of the Iraqi Regional Command of the Baath Party, but then disappeared after the inauguration of Saddam Hussein as Vice President (1969 ) and President and Secretary General of the Baath Party (1979 ) for the time being again in the second row. In the cabinet of Saddam Hussein, he worked from 1982 to 1986, only Minister for Youth.

When after the defeat in the Second Gulf War, Saddam Hussein, the Constitution could be changed, the Office of the Prime Minister gave and separated from the presidency, he appointed in March 1991 with Saadoun Hammadi a Shiite prime minister, but the he shifted again in September 1991. In Hammadis Cabinet as well as in the successor of Muhammad Hammadis Hamza al- Zubaidi al - Khudayir was first foreign minister ( and solved Tariq Aziz from ), from July 1992 then Minister of Finance. On 6 September 1993, however, President Saddam Hussein summoned from az- Zubaidi and appointed al - Khudayir his successor. The reshuffle will be end of July 1993 was preceded by an attempted coup. Khudayir remained only until May 29, 1994 Prime Minister, then allowed Saddam Hussein to change the constitution again and took over the post of prime minister again even with. But Khudayir first remained still finance minister before he was replaced in 1995 by Hikmat Ibrahim al - Azzawi. As part of a new government reshuffle al - Khudayir was in July 2001, Deputy Prime Minister again.

After the Third Gulf War, he was arrested in 2003 by the US- allied occupying power and sentenced in 2006 for alleged involvement in executions, but released in 2010.