Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden

Muhammad bin Laden ( b. 1908; † September 3, 1967 ) was the father of Osama bin Laden and wealthy contractor.

Life

Muhammad bin Laden belonged to the Arab tribe of Kinda, which has about 100,000 members. He came from a village called ar - Ribat in Wadi Dau'an in the region of Hadramaut in Yemen. Like many other people he had left the area because of a catastrophic drought in the early 1930s. After a short stay in Ethiopia, he had settled in 1931 in the city of Jeddah on the Red Sea, which belonged to the newly created Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from the following year. Despite his later social advancement Muhammad bin Laden had been all his life because of his background in the Saudi society is not fully accepted - a flaw that might also met his sons.

In Jeddah, he hired himself first as a porter, 1931, he founded the Saudi Binladin Group ( SBG) or Binladin Organization. Originally a pure construction company, the SBG developed into a large conglomerate in the field of engineering, real estate, sales, communications and publishing.

Muhammad bin Laden was for several years a Saudi minister of construction and civil engineering. He was for many years the official and sole contractor for the holy places of the Kingdom and to 1967 for the holy sites in Jerusalem.

Muhammad bin Laden married late for the first time. He had a total of 22 wives, 54 children, 25 sons and 29 daughters. Of his children are in the west next to Osama especially Salim bin Laden, Bakr bin Laden and Yeslam bin Laden, bin Laden was married to Carmen Dufour, known. As a devout Muslim held Muhammad bin Laden to the requirement to be married to a maximum of four wives at the same time. However, under bin Laden's marriages are said to have many temporary marriages ( mut'ah ), where the man will marry his lover for the sake of short-term form. Therefore, the exact number of his wives as children and hence the half-siblings of Osama bin Laden nearly impossible to determine.

He died in a plane crash on September 3, 1967 in Saudi Arabia killed when his plane crashed on the type Beechcraft at Hamis Musayt during the landing approach.

In the West, the company was Muhammad bin Laden's known by its sponsorship of the Formula 1 team Williams in the year 1979/1980. Alan Jones won the drivers' world championship in 1980 with the words of bin Laden on the race car.

With 5,000 employees in 2000, UBS is one of the largest employers in the Kingdom. The company later joined also in the oil business.

Origins of the family assets

The economic rise of Muhammad bin Laden was closely related to the origins of the exploitation of the Saudi Arabian oil fields by the American oil industry. In 1933, the ( renamed in 1944 in Arabian - American Oil Company, or ARAMCO ) received California Arabian Standard Oil Company concessions for the first time by the Saudis; from 1938 were oil wells be opened up, threw off the profit. Many jobs to develop the infrastructure of the country came in the following years, not by the Saudi government, but directly by the Americans and went accordingly to U.S. companies such as Bechtel. Finally, the Saudis demanded, however, that in contracting more Arabs should be considered, whereupon the Americans from the early 1940s, the creation of local companies promoted, the smaller jobs should be given as a supplier.

When Muhammad bin Laden in the 1940s worked for ARAMCO in Dhahran on the Persian Gulf, he used their funding to acquire American orders for his construction company. Also because he entered this big risks, he could quickly rise to an industry leader. The expanding business empire, which summed up step by step in other sectors foot, was summed up in 1950 under the umbrella company Saudi Binladin Group (SBG ), based in Jeddah.

Already during the reign of King Ibn Saud 1932-1953 succeeded Muhammad bin Laden to establish excellent contacts with the Saudi royal family. Supposedly it played a role in the fact that he had constructed a ramp for the Royal Palace in Jeddah on which the handicapped Ibn Saud could be driven by car to his bedroom on the second floor. Received Against the background of the onset of the oil boom in the 1950s bin Laden so by dumping prices a number of lucrative contracts that made his reputation continue to grow. In his responsibility to build more royal palaces, a part of the expansion of the Saudi Arabian road network and the capital Riyadh and the renovation of major sacred sites fell. Muhammad bin Laden became one of the wealthiest men in Saudi Arabia. The good relations with the royal family yet solidified in the reign of Ibn Saud's sons Saud (1953-1964) and Faisal ( 1964-1975 ). Under Faisal bin Laden served temporarily as an honorary Minister of Public Works.

His son Muhammad Osama bin Laden described in a 1999 broadcast TV interview as one of the " founders of the infrastructure of Saudi Arabia ". He placed particular value but on the finding that his father had managed the renovation and modernization of the three most important mosques in the Islamic world in the 1950s and 1960s, namely the Al -Haram Mosque in Mecca, the Prophet's Mosque in Medina and al -Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and that he had worked there part without financial gain.

The Saudi Binladin Group shares are still family owned. Under the company's management of Osama bin Laden's brothers Salim (1972-1988) and Bakr (since 1988) the SBG has grown into a conglomerate with numerous investments zoom in transnational enterprises. In addition to the core business in the construction sector the Group operates, among others, in the automotive industry in the telecommunications sector, the agricultural sector and holds an extensive real estate holdings and shares in banks and investment firms. The various business segments and foreign missions are usually from other brothers Osama bin Laden directed. Due to the non-transparent reporting practice in Saudi Arabia today's total assets of the SBG is hard to quantify precisely, but is estimated at several billion U.S. dollars. Despite the burden of the activities of Osama bin Laden since the early nineties entertain family and the company continued to make good contacts to the house of Saud. In Saudi Arabia, many jobs to the SBG not be taken by the government bureaucracy but come directly from the environment of the king.

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• Parent of a famous person
• Builder
• Entrepreneurs (Saudi Arabia)
• Entrepreneur ( 20th century)
• Born in 1908
• Died in 1967
• Man