Đỗ Mười
Đỗ Mười ( Hán Nôm杜梅; born February 2, 1917 in Dong My ; † October 1, 2018 in Hanoi ) was a Vietnamese politician . From 1991 to 1997 he was general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (KPV).
Đỗ Mười, son of a North Vietnamese farming family, joined the Indochinese Communist Party in 1939. In 1941 he was sentenced to ten years in prison by the French colonial authorities. After he escaped from Hoa Lo Prison , he resumed his illegal work in 1945 as First Secretary of the Hai Dong Provincial Party Committee . In 1951 he became First Secretary of the Ta Ngan Zone Party Committee, then in 1955 First Secretary of the Haiphong City Party Committee . Đỗ Mười had been a member of the Central Committee since 1960 and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPV since 1982.
Since 1960, Đỗ Mười has also worked in various government functions: first as Minister for Trade, from 1969 as Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and from 1973 as Minister of Construction.
After 35 years in the civil service, Đỗ Mười was elected Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in June 1988 (until 1991). In this function he increasingly became a symbol of the conservative forces in the ruling class.
At the 7th Party Congress of the CPV (June 24-27, 1991) there was a comprehensive change in personnel: Đỗ Mười was elected General Secretary of the CPV as the successor to the then 75-year-old Nguyễn Văn Linh . In this election, seven of the 12 members of the ruling Politburo were replaced, and something similar happened in the party's Central Committee. Like Nguyễn, Đỗ advocated market reforms without fundamentally changing the political system ( Đổi mới reforms).
Party officials stressed that Nguyễn resigned on health grounds and was not removed against his will. Đỗ Mười retired at the age of 80. He died in the fall of 2018 at the age of 101.
literature
- Do Muoi , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 08/1998 from February 9, 1998, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Đỗ Mười |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Do Muoi; 杜梅 |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Vietnamese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dong My |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st October 2018 |
| Place of death | Hanoi |