Hisamuddin of Selangor

Sultan Alam Shah ibni Hisamuddin Almarhum Sultan Sulaiman Shah Alaiddin KCMG ( born May 13 1898 in Kuala Lumpur, † September 1, 1960 in Kuala Lumpur ) was a Malaysian nobleman who both 1938-1942 and 1945-1960 Sultan of the State of Selangor and was officiated on 14 April until his death on September 1, 1960 as the second-choice King of Malaysia (Yang di - Pertuan Agong ). With a reign of only 139 days, he had the shortest tenure of all previous fourteen kings choice.

Life

Origin, succession dispute and first Sultanate

Hisamuddin Alam Shah was the eldest son of Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah, who was from 1898 to 1938 Sultan of Selangor, as well as a commoner. During the visit of the Malay College Kuala Kangsar in 1929 he was instrumental in the founding of the Malay College Old Boys Association ( MCOBA ). In 1931 he was honored with the title Tengku Laksamana. Shortly thereafter, there was a dispute over the succession because Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah had two older sons with a Princess of Kedah: Tengku Musa and Tengku Badar Shah Eddin. Musa Eddin was in 1903 honored with the title Tengku Mahkota Raja Muda and 1920 as crown prince and heir to the throne so.

However, it was through the action of Theodore Samuel Adams, the British Resident in Selangor, to the fact that Crown Prince Musa Eddin was dismissed for alleged misconduct as Raja Muda. Adams accused the Crown Prince wasteful to be pretentious and addicted to gambling, while many residents believed Selangors that the true reason for the dismissal of the Crown Prince was the refusal of the instructions of the residents. Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah Although started in favor of the Crown Prince and even direct talks with the British colonial secretary, led in London, was Hisamuddin Alam Shah, the third son - and thus under disregard of the second son Prince Badar Shah - July 20, 1936 ' Raja Muda and heir appointed.

Four days after the death of his father, he was seiners Hisamuddin Alam Shah proclaimed on April 4, 1938 for the fifth Sultan of Selangor and crowned in a run by his eldest brother Musa Eddin ceremony at the royal residence of sound on 26 January 1939 the King. After his coronation he was appointed in 1938 and Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.

After the occupation Selangors by the Imperial Japanese Army, he led on January 15, 1942 talks with Major General Minaki and Colonel Fujiyama, the military governor Selangors, in Kuala Lumpur and admitted that he had spoken by the influence of the British Resident in favor of Great Britain. Then he had to against his eldest brother Musa Eddin, who was proclaimed as Musa Ghiatuddin Riayat Shah for the sixth Sultan Selangors in November reign as Sultan of Selangor. Hisamuddin Alam Shah refused to cooperate with the Japanese occupying power, and renounced even offered to him and his children by the Japanese from 1943 appanage.

Second Sultanate and second-choice King of Malaysia

The return of British troops to Malaysia in 1945 meant that he was a second time Sultan, while the previous Sultan Musa into exile went to the Cocos Islands. On 1 March 1946 he was chairman of the first Malay Unity Congress in Kuala Lumpur, which was crucial to the founding of the United Malays National Organisation ( UMNO ), the largest and most important governing party of the country. The organization of the congress was the writer and president of the Selangor Malay Society ( PMS), Zainal Abidin Ahmad, a critic of British rule. In 1952 he undertook the first Malaysian prince a Hajj to Mecca.

In preparation for the independence of the Federation of Malaya from Britain on 31 August 1957, he was elected on August 3, 1957 to the Viceroy and thus the representative of the first Yang di - Pertuan Agong Abdul Rahman.

After his death, before the expiry of the five-year reign on April 1, 1960, Shah Alam Hisamuddin his successor as second Wahhlkönig and began his reign as Yang di - Pertuan Agong on April 14, 1960. On September 1, 1960, the day of his official coronation, but he died in Kuala Lumpur and was then on 3 September 1960 at the Royal Mausoleum near Sultan Sulaiman Mosque in sound.

Successor as the third choice was then king Malaysia on 21 September 1960, the Sultan of Perlis, Syed Putra, who finished the first king a regular five -year term. As the eighth Sultan of Selangor was succeeded by his son Salahuddin Abdul Aziz, who was between 1999 and 2001 election eleventh King of Malaysia and his father died in office. With a term of 2 years and 62 days he was after his father the choice of king with the second shortest reign.