Zakaria Mohieddin

Birth Date : 05 Jul, 1918

Death Date : 15 May, 2012

Date and Place of Birth

He was born in Kafr Shukr, Qalyubia Governorate, on July 5, 1918.

Education

He received his pre-elementary education in “Al-kuttab”; one of his village's traditional schools aimed at teaching children the reading of the Holy Quran as well as the basics of reading and writing the Arabic language. Then he moved to Cairo, where he joined the Abbasiya Primary School, and then Fouad Al-Awal Secondary School.
He joined the Military College on October 6, 1936, and graduated with the rank of second lieutenant on February 6, 1938.
He was assigned to the Infantry Rifle Battalion in Alexandria, then served in Manqabad in 1939, where he met with Gamal Abdel Nasser, then served in Sudan in 1940, where he met again with Gamal Abdel Nasser and got to know Abdel Hakim Amer.

Positions held

Member of the Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council, 1952-1956
Head of the Military Intelligence Service, 1952-1953.
Minister of Interior in 1953.
In charge of the first Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate; which its establishment was entrusted to him by the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1955.
Central Minister of Interior for Egypt and Syria union during the United Arab Republic (U.A.R.) in 1958.
Head of the High Commission for the High Dam on March 26, 1960.
Vice-President of Egypt and Minister of Interior, 1961.
Vice-President of Egypt and Prime Minister, 1965.
Head of the delegation of the United Arab Republic at the Conference of Arab Heads of State and Government January and May 1965.
Head of the delegation of the United Arab Republic in the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the First Asian-African Conference in April 1965
Zakaria Mohieldin was appointed as President of the Republic for the shortest period of time that Egypt has witnessed so far. He held the position for only two days when the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser stepped down from power in the wake of the 1967 defeat, on the night of June 9, 1967, but the masses came out in demonstrations calling for Abdel Nasser to remain in power.
Mohieddin submitted his resignation two days later, and announced his retirement from political life in 1968.