Khalid Al Hud Al Gargani

Khalid Al Hud Al Gargani, also known as Khalid Al Hud, was a Libyan businessman and one of the most influential advisors of King Abdulaziz, founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932, during the 1930s.[1]

Khalid Al Hud Al Gargani
NationalitySaudi Arabian
Other namesKhalid Al Hud
Years active1930s
Known forAdvisor of King Abdulaziz

Biography

Khalid Al Hud was a Libyan businessman who had contacts with German companies in the 1930s.[1][2] He was part of the eight-member political committee at the Saudi royal court.[3]

He was the principal envoy of the King in regard to the procurement of arms from the European states. A meeting was planned with the Italian officials for this purpose in 1937, but Khalid Al Hud could not attend the meeting due to his illness.[4] He was sent to Germany as an emissary of the King to negotiate the arm sales in 1939.[5] There he met with Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi's foreign minister, on 8 June.[6][7] During the meeting Khalid Al Hud asked the Germans to establish a small rifle and munitions factory in Saudi Arabia and to sell the armoured cars and anti-aircraft weapons to strengthen the Kingdom's defense.[7] Then on 17 June he met with Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden, Germany.[6][8] He submitted a personal letter from King Abdulaziz to Hitler who stated in the meeting that Nazi Germany would be pleased to have good relations with Saudi Arabia due to the fact that both states had the same opponents, Jewish people.[7] Khalid Al Hud's mission was a success in that the Germans agreed to provide weapons that Saudi Arabia requested.[7] However, any agreement was signed and therefore, the mission was not materialized partly due to the outbreak of World War II on 3 September 1939.[7][9]

Khalid Al Hud was father-in-law of Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, an Egyptian diplomat.[10]

References
  1. Fahd Abdullah Al Semmari (1989). Saudi Arabian-German political and economic relations 1926-1939 (PhD thesis). University of California, Riverside. p. 25. ISBN 979-8-207-16735-0. ProQuest 303670392.
  2. Joseph Kostiner (1992). "Britain and the Challenge of the Axis Powers in Arabia: The Decline of British-Saudi Cooperation in the 1930s". In Michael J. Cohen; Martin Kolinsky (eds.). Britain and the Middle East in the 1930s. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 140. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-11880-9_8. ISBN 978-0-333-53514-1.
  3. Madawi Al Rasheed (2010). A History of Saudi Arabia (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 83. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511993510. ISBN 978-0-5217-4754-7.
  4. Nir Arielle (August 2008). "Italian Involvement in the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 35 (2): 195. doi:10.1080/13530190802180597. S2CID 145144088.
  5. Taysair Jadoow Alwosh (2020). "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the German strategy 1932-1939" (PDF). Journal of Xi'an University of Architecture & Technology. XII (IV): 4668. ISSN 1006-7930.
  6. Francis R. Nicosia (2014). Nazi Germany and the Arab World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781107589674.005. ISBN 978-1107664814.
  7. Shafi Aldamer (2001). Saudi British relations, 1939-1953 (PhD thesis). Durham University. p. 54.
  8. "Power Politics: Semitic Friends". Time. 3 July 1939. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  9. Basheer M. Nafi (Spring 1997). "The Arabs and the Axis: 1933-1940". Arab Studies Quarterly. 19 (2): 8. JSTOR 41858205.
  10. "Leading personalities in Egypt (British diplomatic document)" (PDF). Nasser Library. 8 October 1946. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2021.
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