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'''Taha El Sherif Ben Amer''' (June 28, 1936 - March 6, 1978) was a [[Libya]]n [[engineer]] and politician.
He was born in the city of [[Benghazi]], Libya in June 1936. He spent his childhood in Benghazi where he finished his primary school and high school. He was awarded a scholarship in order to pursue his education in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]]. In 1959 he obtained a bachelor's degree with honours in Civil Engineering from [[Ain Shams University]].
Soon after graduation, he went back to Benghazi to work as a Junior Engineer and establish an engineering office which involved in many engineering projects across the eastern region of Libya. After the revolution in Libya in 1969, Taha El Sherif was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Transportation until 1971. Then, he became the [[Minister of Transportation]] to 1975. Soon after this date, he was selected as the [[Secretary of State]].
On March 6, 1978 Taha El Sherif Ben Amer died in a helicopter crash of which he was going to visit a project near the city of [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]] with the East German Politburo member [[Werner Lamberz]] who was the party's second most important ideological spokesman.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1978-03-07 |title=East German Official Dies in Copter Crash in Libya |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/07/archives/east-german-official-dies-in-copter-crash-in-libya-candidate-to.html |access-date=2022-09-24 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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== External links ==
* [[:ar:اللجنة الشعبية العامة|Libyan People's Committee article on Arabic Wikipedia]]
* [http://www.jeel-libya.net/show_print.php?show=15553 An article about scouting in Libya] (in Arabic)
* [http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-5132.html Article about East Germany that mentions the helicopter crash]
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[[Category:Ain Shams University alumni]]
[[Category:People from Benghazi]]
[[Category:Members of the General People's Committee of Libya]]
[[Category:Transport ministers of Libya]]
[[Category:Libyan engineers]]
[[Category:20th-century engineers]]
[[Category:Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Libya]]
[[Category:Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1978]]
[[Category:Victims of helicopter accidents or incidents]]
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