Andō Teibi

Baron Andō Teibi, October 1913

Baron Andō Teibi ( Japanese 安東貞 美 ; born October 20, 1853 ( traditionally : Kaei 6/8/19) in Iida ; † August 29, 1932 in Tokyo ), occasionally misread as Andō Sadami , was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 6th Governor General of the Japanese colony of Taiwan .

Life

Andō was born into a samurai family in Shinano Province .

In 1871, at the age of 18, he entered the Ōsaka Rikugunhei Gakkō , the forerunner of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy , and was trained as a lieutenant in this . He had his first assignment in 1877 during the Satsuma rebellion on the side of the troops of the 2nd division loyal to the emperor . As a credit for this he was promoted to captain and was allowed to go to the Imperial Army University and continue his education. He left her with the rank of major and was reassigned to the 2nd division.

Then Andō rose quickly through the ranks and held various command posts. For example, through both the Imperial Army Academy and the Imperial Army University. He was promoted to general in October 1899 and took command of the 2nd Division with which he was sent to Taiwan.

In the course of the Russo-Japanese War he was given command of the 10th Division on January 15, 1905 , with which he took part in the Battle of Mukden .

On September 12, 1908 Andō was ennobled by receiving the title danshaku (baron). From 1911 he took command of the 12th Division before he became Commander in Chief of the Chosen Army in the Japanese colony of Korea in 1913 .

On April 30, 1915, he replaced General Sakuma Samata from his post as governor-general of the Japanese colony of Taiwan and held the post until June 1918. The Tapani incident , a large-scale armed uprising against Japanese rule, happened during his tenure. Economically, he was committed to exploiting the wood resources in the Taiping and Pa-hsien Mountains and expanding the island's railway network.

All that is known about his further career is that he was posthumously awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class, after his death .

See also

• Taiwan under Japanese rule

literature

• Leo TS Ching: Becoming Japanese. Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation . University of California Press, 2001, ISBN 0-520-22553-8 .
• Shih-Shan Henry Tsai: Lee Teng-hui and Taiwan's Quest for Identity . Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, ISBN 1-4039-7056-4 .

Remarks

1. ↑ Ching, Becoming Japanese

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Andō is the family name, Teibi the first name.