Maarouf al-Dawalibi

Maarouf ( Ma'aruf ) al - Dawalibi (Arabic معروف الدواليبي, DMG Ma ʿ ruf ad - Dawalibi; * March 29, 1909 ( other source: 1907) in Aleppo, Ottoman Empire, † 15 January 2004 in Saudi Arabia) was a Syrian politician.

Biography

Al- Dawalibi in 1947, on April 17, 1946 elected a year after the independence of Syria from France as a Member of Parliament, where he represented the constituency of his home city of Aleppo. In 1949 he was appointed Minister of Economy.

As co-founder of the People's Party, which advocated the maintenance of the democratic system and the creation of a union with neighboring Iraq, he justified his distrust of politicians coming from Damascus. In 1951, he was from June to September for a short time speaker of parliament.

On 28 November 1951 he became prime minister for the first time. When he refused, however, to appoint the former Defense Minister Fawzi Selu in his cabinet, ordered military leaders Adib al- Shishakli on 29 November 1951, the arrest Dawalibis. His entire cabinet and all per -Iraq politicians in Syria, including the leaders of the People's Party, Nazim al - Qudsi and Rushdi al - Kichiya were imprisoned. In protest, President Hashim al - Atassi Khalid resigned and joined the opposition. Shishakli put his right hand Fawzi Selu one as Chief of Staff, Prime Minister, Defence Minister and President.

While the renewed term of al - Atassi as president after the fall of al- Shishakli he was from February 1954 to September 1955 Secretary of Defense.

After the election victory of the People's Party, he was on December 22, 1961 Prime Minister again and took over at the same time the post of foreign minister. Already on 28 March 1962 he was deposed in a military coup, however, again.

After the seizure of power by the Baath Party by the coup by Lieutenant General Louai al - Atassi on March 8, 1963 he was arrested together with all the other enemies of the United Arab Republic and brought to the notorious Mezze military prison. After his release a few months later, he went into exile, first in Lebanon and then to Saudi Arabia, where he worked as a private consultant to the King of Saudi Arabia.