Akram al-Hawrani

Akram al - Haurani, also Hourani (Arabic أكرم الحوراني, DMG Akram al - Ḥawrānī; born 1915 in Hama, Syria, † February 24, 1996 in Amman, Jordan), a Syrian politician and co-founder of the Arab Socialist Baath Party was ( ASBP ).

Life

While studying law in Beirut and Damascus, al - Haurani was first trailer of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. In 1939 he took the profession of a lawyer and co-founded with his brother, the youth party. Just four years later, he became in 1943 deputy in the Syrian Parliament. From 1948 to 1949 he was a volunteer in the Palestine War.

After the defeat in 1949 Syrian Akram al - Haurani acted as one of the masterminds of the coup of Husni az- Za'ims and was under this until 1950 agriculture, defense and information ministers. In 1950 the Umbebennung youth party in Arab Socialist Party, which in 1953 united with the Baath Party, founded in 1946 Michel Aflaqs and Salah ad-Din al - Bitars. Chairman of the new ASBP was Haurani; the Baath mastermind Zaki al - Arsuzi exhibited protest his cooperation.

From 1954 to 1957, Akram al - Haurani was Vice President of the Syrian Parliament, due to his personal friendship with President Shishakli. In 1958 he was promoted to Vice President of the Union of Egypt with Syria. However, he was an opponent of Gamal Abdel Nasser and therefore participating in 1961 on the elimination of Syria. Because of its entry into the separatist government in 1962 was his dismissal and expulsion from the Baath Party, his followers founded the former Arab Socialist Party as a new Arab Socialist Movement. Despite the rise of the Baath Party in 1963 and funded by Haurani left wing of the party in 1966, Akram al - Haurani stood in opposition to Premier Zayyen and General Hafez al -Assad. That's why he was arrested in 1966 and was followed by his deportation to Cyprus, then to Paris.