Demchugdongrub

Prince Demchugdongrub 1937

Demchugdongrub , also known as Prince Teh (De) Wang (born February 8, 1902 , Right Sonid Banner , Inner Mongolia; † May 23, 1966 , Hohhot , People's Republic of China) was a Mongolian prince and president of the Japanese puppet state Mengjiang during the Second Sino-Japanese War .

Life

The conservative Mongolian nobleman was one of the descendants of Genghis Khan . From 1933 to 1935 Demchugdongrub used the Japanese threat to China to form a Mongolian independence movement. On February 18, 1936, the Japanese puppet state Mengjiang was founded in eastern Inner Mongolia , mainly from the provinces of Chahar and Suiyuan . However, the country's autonomy was purely theoretical, as the actual exercise of political power remained in the hands of the Japanese occupiers. The formal head of state was Demchugdongrub. The capital was Kalgan (Zhangjiakou). From 1941 Mengjiang was formally considered an autonomous area under the Nanjing government . In the course of the Soviet Operation August Storm just before the end of World War II , Mengjiang was occupied by the Red Army and the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army . Demchugdongrub was arrested and pardoned after 12 years in prison . He died in Hohhot , People's Republic of China, in 1966 .

literature

• Sechin Jagchid: The Last Mongol Prince: The Life and Times of Demchugdongrob, 1902–1966. 1999, Western Washington University. ISBN 978-0-914584-21-6 .

Web links

• Newspaper article about Demchugdongrub in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .