Hilla Limann

Hilla Aeschlimann (born 12 December 1934 in Gwollu; † January 23, 1998 in Accra ) was 1979-1981 President of Ghana.

Early years

He came from a poor family in the north of the then British colony of the Gold Coast. His original name was Babini, he called himself but later after his uncle Heli Aeschlimann, who raised him.

Aeschlimann studied since 1957, economics, political science, philosophy and history at the London School of Economics and received his Doctor of Philosophy. In 1960 he went to the Sorbonne and received his doctorate in 1965.

In the parliamentary elections of 1954 he went to unsuccessfully as an independent candidate. He later became a diplomat, and was from 1968 to 1971 at the Embassy in Lome, then from 1971 to 1975 in Geneva.

President

Although he was relatively unknown, he won in July 1979 as a candidate of the People's National Party ( PNP) with 62 % of the vote in a runoff election against Victor Osuwu president. He officially took office on 24 September 1979 as successor by Jerry Rawlings on. As president, he took a moderate course and was supported by the business community.

His brief tenure ended when his predecessor Rawlings on 31 December 1981 coup a second time to rule Ghana now for the next twenty years.

More life

In October 1983, Aeschlimann was released from prison and continued to live in Ghana. He ran unsuccessfully for the presidency in 1992 against Ghana Rawlings, reaching 6.7 % of the vote for third place. In 1996, he opted not to run again in favor of his party colleague Dr. Edward Mahama. On January 23, 1998, he died after a heart condition in a hospital.

Aeschlimann was married and had eight children.