Hayreddin Pasha

Hayreddin Pasha ( osm. and Arab خير الدين پاشا Hayreddin Paşa DMG Ḫayraddīn Paša; . * 1822 or 1823 in the Caucasus; † January 30, 1890 in Istanbul) was a Tunisian and Ottoman statesman of the 19th century.

Life

Hayreddin Pasha, son of Abkhazian parents, was sold into slavery as a boy and came into the possession of a Tunisian high officials, who had given him an excellent education and are then set him free.

He stepped out into the Tunisian army and was aide to Ahmed Bei, whom he accompanied to Paris in 1846. 1852-1855 he represented the interests of the beis of Tunis at the court of Napoleon III. in Paris, where he led the French language and European culture appropriating. He soon became the Secretary of the Navy, then as President of the High Council of Tunis, 1872 was president of the international commission to organize the financial circumstances of Tunis, and in 1873 the first minister.

After 1871 Tunis closely connected again by the firman on 23 October with the Turkish Empire, and placed under the suzerainty of the Sultan, he went to the reform of domestic policies, both the administration and the judiciary, whose principles and feasibility of it in a presented written in French factory had ( Reformes nécessaires aux États musulmans, translated under his guidance, Paris, 1868).

But he quarreled about the In and filed for bankruptcy on July 20, 1877 his dismissal. After a short stay in France, he was appointed in 1878 by the Sultan to Istanbul here to assist in the planned reform of the Turkish state, particularly of the financial sector, with help and advice. On December 4, 1878, he was named the Sultan for this purpose to the Grand Vizier; but all efforts Hayreddins to regulate by order and economy finance, to put an end to the arbitrary, laziness and corruption and to establish an orderly administration and jurisdiction, failed due to the corruption of the high bureaucracy, the resistance Osman Pasha, the all-powerful Minister of War and the weakness of the Sultan.

When he refused a neuausgearbeiteten reform plan Hayreddins in July 1879, he again asked for his release and was appointed a member of the Senate.