Sami al-Hinnawi

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Sami al-Hinnawi سامي الحناوي

Personal details
Born	1898 Aleppo
Died	October 31, 1950 (aged 51–52) Beirut, Lebanon
Nationality	Syrian
Religion	Sunni Islam
Military service
Rank	Colonel

Colonel Sami Hilmy al-Hinnawi (1898 – October 31, 1950) (Arabic: محمد سامي حلمي الحناوي‎) was a Syrian politician and military man. He was born in Aleppo and had served in the Ottoman army before serving in the French-Syrian army during the French Mandate of Syria.

Col. al-Hinnawi overthrew the military rule of Syrian President Husni al-Za'im in August 1949 with the aid of fellow members in the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, including Adib al-Shishakli. After the coup, he swiftly ordered al-Za'im and Prime Minister Muhsin al-Barazi to be brought to Mezze prison in Damascus, where both were executed in front of Muhsin al-Barazi's son.

Al-Hinnawi was then installed as leader of a military junta, but al-Shishakli remained the military strongman. In 1949, Shishakli carried out another coup d'état (the third that year), strengthening his dictatorship. On October 31, 1950, he was murdered in Beirut, Lebanon, by Hersho al-Barazi, a cousin of Muhsin al-Barazi.

References

A rare picture of General Sami al-Hinnawi, the Chief-of-Staff of the Syrian Army who toppled and killed President Husni al-Za’im at syrianhistory.com

v t e Chiefs of General Staff of the Army and the Armed Forces of Syria

	Abdullah Atfeh Husni al-Za'im Sami al-Hinnawi Anwar Bannud Fawzi Selu Shawkat Shuqayr Tawfiq Nizam al-Din Afif al-Bizri Jamal al-Faisal Abd al-Karim Zahr al-Din Ziad al-Hariri Salah Jadid Ahmad Suwaydani Mustafa Tlass Yusuf Shakkur Hikmat al-Shihabi Ali Aslan Hasan Turkmani Ali Habib Mahmud Dawoud Rajiha Fahd Jassem al-Freij Ali Ayoub

Persondata
Name	Al-Hinnawi, Sami
Alternative names
Short description	A coup leader and the leader of the military junta
Date of birth	1898
Place of birth	Aleppo, Syria
Date of death	October 31, 1950
Place of death	Beirut, Lebanon

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