Biography

Heydar Muhammad Amin was born in 1927 in the city of Erbil. In 1946, he took the final preparatory exam in prison. In 1948, he was accepted into the English Department of the Baghdad University of Education and in 1953, he received his bachelor's degree in English from the Baghdad University of Education. In 1953, he was denied the right to establish a company due to the Kurdish struggle and worked in a private company in Baghdad to support himself. In 1957, he was established as a teacher at the Hilla secondary school. In 1958, after the overthrow of the Iraqi monarchy, he returned to the Erbil Education Administration and worked as a teacher. In 1958, he became an English teacher at the Erbil Primary Teachers' Institute.

He passed away on January 16, 1960, in the city of Erbil, of a heart attack. On January 22, 1960, the newspaper Xebat, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, published the news of his death. The Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Erbil branch of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union expressed their condolences to his family. He knew Kurdish, Arabic and English.

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In 1942, he participated in the demonstration at the gate of the Erbil Governorate for the release of lawyer Ewnî Yusif Ehmed (1988 - 1908), and Doctor Ja'fer Mihemed Karîm (1910 - 2000) known as Doctor Ja'fer Feyli, and Hasan Taha Abdulaziz (1915 - 1999) known as Hasan Ketani, who were arrested by the governor of Erbil for their Kurdish struggle. He joined the ranks of the Party in 1946. He was arrested in 1948 and passed the final preparatory exam in prison. In 1948, he was a delegate to the congress of the General Union of Iraqi Students (Lions Congress).

In 1948, he became a member of the leadership of the General Union of Iraqi Students (Lions Congress). In 1949, he was arrested for political activities. In 1953, he was among the founders of the Kurdistan Students Union. In 1953, he was a member of the Preparatory Committee of the first congress of the Kurdistan Students Union. In 1953, he was elected as a member of the Executive Committee at the first congress of the Kurdistan Students Union and shortly after, he was appointed as the secretary of the Kurdistan Students Union. In 1953, he was among the founders and members of the leadership of the Democratic Youth Union of Kurdistan. In 1959, he was appointed head of the Erbil Regional Committee affiliated with the Second Branch Committee of the United Democratic Party of Kurdistan.

In 1959, he was a member of the Preparatory Committee of Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq became. In 1959, the representative Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq was in Baghdad. On January 10, 1959, as a representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq, he read a speech to the public at the headquarters of the Xebat newspaper in Erbil, on the occasion of the recovery and discharge from the hospital of Zaim Rukin Abdulkarim Qasim (1914 - 1963), who was injured in a terrorist attack by the Arab Socialist Baath Party. On August 15-17, 1960, he was the representative of the Erbil Governorate at the second congress of the Kurdish Teachers' Union (Second Shaqlawe Congress). In 1960, he was elected by the congress representatives as an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Fifth Congress). In 1960, he became the secretary of the Erbil branch of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union.

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