Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf

Taha Muhi ad-Din Maaruf (Arabic طه محي الدين معروف Taha muhi ad - Dīn Maarūf, DMG Taha al - Dīn muhi Maarūf; alternatively Taha Muyiddin Marouf written '; * ca 1929 in Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq; † August 8 2009 in Amman, Jordan) was an Iraqi politician and diplomat, and from 1975 to April 2003, the first Kurdish Vice President of Iraq.

Life

He studied (as well as later Jalal Talabani ) law in Baghdad and in 1948 a lawyer; Since 1951 he worked in the diplomatic service of the former kingdom.

But before that he had been 1945/46, already in the Kurdish Freedom Party ( Rizgari ) active and 1946 even a founding member of the Iraqi Kurdish Democratic Party ( KDP) under Mullah Mustafa Barzani become. When it came to splitting of the KDP in 1964, is Maaruf joined the Barzani - critical wing Talabani, who worked with Baghdad against Barzani, from 1971 to 1974 but returned again to Barzani.

As a representative of Talabani fraction was Ma ʿ ruf 1968 Minister of State in Baghdad. In contrast, both Barzani representatives protested in the Iraqi government, Ahmad Hasan al - Bakr and resigned. Baghdad, which sought at least then, the reconciliation with Barzani sent, so Ma ʿ ruf 1970, first as ambassador to France, then to Italy (including Malta and Albania), instead marched five Kurds by the Iraqi Cabinet. As 1974, the reconciliation between Baghdad and Barzani finally failed, set three of the Kurdish Minister of the Neo - KDP (another spin-off under Barzani's eldest son Ubaidullah ) as well as one movement Progressive Kurds and the Kurdistan Revolutionary Party. The old KDP, however, was acquired in 1975 by Masud Barzani and Idris, while Talabani with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK ) founded his own party, with Baghdad fought against Barzani still 1984.

Instead of Barzani and Talabani was in April, 1974 Ma ʿ ruf first Kurdish Vice President of Iraq and thus next to Saddam Hussein (until 1979 ) or Michel Aflaq (until 1989 ) one of the two Vice-Presidents, 1989-1991 even only Vice- President of the Republic, from 1991 to Taha Yasin Ramadan al 2003 next - Dschazrawi. Meanwhile, a member of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, was Ma ʿ ruf 1976/77 or 1982 to 2003 member of the Revolutionary Command Council ( RKR ), the top leadership of Iraq, and as such was a prisoner of war in 2003 the U.S. occupation troops.

Swell

  • Franz Erhard: Kurds and Kurdentum. Time history of a people and its national movements (Information of the DOI, Vol 30). German Orient Institute, Hamburg, 1986, pp. 118, ISBN 3-89-173-006-3.
  • Peter Sluglett. Iraq since 1958, From Revolution to Dictatorship ( "Iraq since 1958 ", 1987). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1991, p 222, ISBN 3-518-11661-4.
  • The International Who's Who. Kent 1988, p 991
  • Vice-President ( Iraq)
  • Minister (Iraq)
  • Politicians (Kurdistan)
  • Iraqi Ambassador
  • Ambassador to France
  • Ambassador to Italy
  • Iraqi
  • Born in the 20th century
  • Died in 2009
  • Man
DIN 31635 Kurdish people Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
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