Charun Rattanakun Serir grit

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Charun Rattanakun Seriroengrit ( Thai จรูญ รัตน กุลเสรี เริงฤทธิ์ , pronunciation: [t͡ɕàruːn ráttànákun sěːriːrɤːŋrít] ; also transcribed as Charoon Ratanakul Seri Roengrit ; * 1895 ; † 1983 ) was a Thai civil servant and military officer. He was a general in World War II and a minister in the government of Plaek Phibunsongkhram .

At the time of the absolute monarchy, the captain Charun Rattanakun was given the feudal honorary name Luang Seriroengrit . He joined the “People's Party” (khana ratsadon) , which ended the absolute monarchy by means of a coup in 1932 and replaced it with a constitutional one.

Seriroengrit, who was now a colonel, held an important position in the government of Plaek Phibunsongkhram from 1938 . He became head of the state railways and minister without portfolio, in 1939 deputy minister in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, in 1941 in the Ministry of Defense . In October 1940 he was major general in command of the Burapha Army (Eastern Army), which invaded the French colony of Cambodia as part of the Franco-Thai War .

After the end of the fighting in the east he was promoted to lieutenant general and moved to the head of the Phayap Army (Northwest Army) in February 1942. This took part in the Japanese conquest of Burma and subsequently held part of the Shan state occupied. Seriroengrit concentrated from May 1942 on his political activities. From March to September 1942 he was Minister of Commerce and Minister of Transport until 1944.

After the fall of Field Marshal Phibunsongkhram in 1944, he was arrested as a war criminal. In March 1946, however, he was released again. He became a board member of the national trading company Thai Niyom Phanit and in May 1946 a member of the Senate , of which he was a member until 1951. In 1947 he took part in the successful military coup against the civilian government that brought Phibunsongkhram back to power.

Charun's son Aram Seriroengrit married Princess Galyani Vadhana , the sister of King Bhumibol Adulyadej . He was Bhumibol's companion in his serious car accident in Switzerland.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Direk Jayanama: Thailand and World War II. Silkworm Books, Bangkok 2008, p. 5.
  2. ↑ Walter Skrobanek: Buddhist politics in Thailand. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1976, p. 188.
  3. ^ Judith A. Stowe: Siam becomes Thailand. A story of intrigue. C. Hurst & Co., London 1991, p. 375.
  4. ↑ Sorasak Ngamcachonkulkid: The Seri Thai Movement. The First Alliance Against Military Authoritarianism in Modern Thai History. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Madison 2005, p. 179.
  5. ↑ Sorasak Ngamcachonkulkid: The Seri Thai Movement. 2005, p. 204.
personal data
SURNAME Rattanakun Seriroengrit, Charun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Thai army officer, civil servant and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
DATE OF DEATH 1983