Dương Văn Minh

Note: The family name of this Vietnamese name is Dương , in Western texts the spelling is often simplified Duong . According to Vietnamese custom, the person should be referred to by their first name Minh - even in formal situations .

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Dương Văn Minh ^{? / i} (Hán Nôm: 楊文明) (bornFebruary 16, 1916inMỹ Tho,Tiền Giang Province; †August 5, 2001inPasadena,California,USA) was aSouth Vietnamese politicianandgeneral.

Life

Duong Van Minh came from a family from the south. He completed his school education at the Lycée Chasseloup-Laubat in Saigon . In 1940 Duong Van Min enlisted in the French army . In 1952 he reached the rank of major. In 1953 he graduated from the École de Guerre in Paris . After the end of the Indochina War and the partition of Vietnam, he joined the South Vietnamese armed forces . In 1955, as commander of Saigon-Cholon with the rank of colonel, he played a leading role in the suppression of the Bình Xuyên .

Under Ngô Đình Diệm he was the army chief and his military advisor. In 1963 he led the military coup against this with American approval and ruled from November 8, 1963 as head of the military junta . But on January 30, 1964, he was overthrown by General Nguyễn Khánh . In exile in Bangkok until 1968 , he was increasingly viewed as a representative of a third force.

After the flight of President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and the failure of President Trần Văn Hương , Dương Văn Minh was again President of South Vietnam on April 28, 1975, but all that remained was for him to surrender to the Viet Cong on April 30 and dissolve the South Vietnamese Proclaim government.

He stayed in custody for only a few days and was allowed to emigrate to Paris in 1983 , but later moved to California to live with his daughter.

literature

• Duong Van Minh , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 49/2001 of November 26, 2001, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

• Dương Văn Minh in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. Jump up ↑ Bruce Lockhart, William J. Duiker: Historical Dictionary of Vietnam , 3rd Edition, Oxford, 2006, p. 115
2. ↑ Christopher E. Goscha : Historical Dictionary of the Indochina War (1945-1954) , Copenhagen, 2011, p. 158