Auguste Adib Pacha
Auguste Adib Pacha (* 1859 in Deir el- Qamar, then Ottoman Empire, now Lebanon, † July 12, 1936 in Paris, France ) was a politician who was 1926-1932 twice Prime Minister of Lebanon.
Life
Auguste Adib was born into a Maronite family in the mountains of Lebanon. He first studied at the Jesuit school of Deir Mar Maroun in Ghazir, then to its successor school, the Université Saint -Joseph in Beirut. In 1885 he emigrated to Egypt, where he worked in the local administration.
He was one of the founding fathers of the Alliance libanaise (Arabic: Hizb al - Itihad al - Lubnani ), which overseas Lebanese founded in 1908 in Cairo. This party demanded - as other Arab groups in the Ottoman Empire - the independence of the Arab territories of the Ottoman Empire. At the same time it expressed the idea of creating a Christian-dominated state Grand Liban ( Greater Lebanon ), as the Christian Lebanese were actually descendants of the Phoenicians and not Arabs. With this opinion to Adib and his colleagues away from the pan-Arab ideas of other independence supporters among the Arabs of the Middle East.
After the independence of the Arab populated areas in the Middle East from the Ottoman Empire after the First World War, he returned in 1920 after decades of stay in Egypt to Lebanon back. The French colonialists divided in 1926 on the former mandated territory of Syria and Lebanon, the state was formed. Its first president was Charles Debbas and Auguste Adib on May 31, 1926 the first Prime Minister of the Mandate Lebanon. In December 1926, Adib traveled to Paris to attend a conference about solving the debt problem of the Ottoman Empire. The two strong men in Lebanon, Emile Eddé and Béchara El- Khoury, a power struggle fought in his absence to his successor. This pressure was not up to Adib and he resigned on 5 May 1927. Adib was but more politically active and was on March 25, 1930 Prime Minister again. This time until 9 March 1932. Adib has a number of known relative. The most popular one is Camille Chamoun ( president of Lebanon ), who was his nephew.
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One of the political groups that later Adibs idea of the rejection of the membership of the Lebanese kept up with the Arab nation, were the guardians of the cedars.