Mao Zetan

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Mao Zetan ( Chinese  毛 泽 覃 , Pinyin Máo Zétán , born September 25, 1905 in Shaoshan ; † April 25, 1935 in western Fujian ), also 毛 泽 淋 , Máo Zélín , 咏 菊 , Yǒngjú , or 润 菊 , Rùnjú was the younger of the two brothers by Mao Zedong .

Mao Zetan followed his brother to Changsha in 1918 , where he was persuaded by Mao Zedong to join the Communist Youth League in 1921. He helped Zedong organize strikes in the Anyuan coal mines , the Shuikoushan lead and zinc mines , the railroad and factories in Hunan . In March 1923 he was sent to Shuikoushan again by his brother. There he joined the Chinese Communist Party . In 1924 he married his girlfriend Zhao Xiangui.

In the spring of 1925 he and his brother organized numerous farmers' associations in his homeland of Hunan. For this reason, like Mao Zedong, he had to flee to Guangzhou in the summer of 1925 . There he worked at the Whampoa Military Academy and became a member of the Communist Party Committee of the Guangdong Province . In October 1925 his wife was sent to Moscow by the Communist Party to study at Sun Yatsen University . In 1926, he married the then 16-year-old Zhou Wennan, who shortly afterwards also entered the Communist Youth League.

In April 1927 he worked in the Guangdong Peasant Association, after which he was transferred to Wuchang , where he joined the political department of the 4th Corps of the National Revolutionary Army with the rank of captain . After Wang Jingwei had fallen out with the leader of the Kuomintang and the left wing and the Communists were fought by the right wing Kuomintang, Zetan initially stayed in the National Revolutionary Army, with which he was transferred to Jiujiang . Fearing that he would be a victim of purges after the Shanghai massacre , he fled on the advice of Ye Jianying to Nanchang , where He Long's troops had just carried out the Nanchang uprising . The communist troops had already withdrawn, so that he did not contact the rebels until about 170 km south of Nanchang, at considerable risk. He subsequently worked in the political department of the insurgent army, took part in the storming of Shantou and joined the forces of Zhu De , which withdrew towards the border between Guangdong and Jiangxi after the failure of the capture of Shantou City . In November 1927, he served as a messenger to the contact between the troops Zhu and the Jinggangshan base of Mao Zedong to produce. In 1931, in Jinggangshan, Zetan married for the third time. His wife He Yi was the younger sister of Mao Zedong's third wife, He Zizhen .

In the Jiangxi Soviet , he was appointed head of the political department of the 6th Red Army Corps by his brother because this corps consisted largely of locals from Jiangxi Province, whom Mao Zedong did not trust. In May 1933 he was dismissed from military service as part of power struggles within the Communist Party.

When plans were being made to evacuate the Jiangxi Soviet, Zetan and He Yi preferred to stay in the old communist base, which was now to be commanded by Xiang Ying and Chen Yi . A few months after the start of the Long March , Mao Zetan was ambushed and killed. Since Zetan had promised his brother to hide and raise his son Anlong, the fate of Mao Anlong is also unclear.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine: Mao: The Real Story . Simon & Schuster, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-4516-5447-9 , pp. 592 .
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personal data
SURNAME Mao, Zetan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mao, Zelin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese revolutionary, brother of Mao, Zedong
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Shaoshan
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1935
Place of death Fujian