Gombojaviin Ochirbat

Gombojaviin Ochirbat ( Mongolian Гомбожавын Очирбат ; different name spellings: Gombojavyn Ochirbat and Gombodschawyn Otschirbat * 15. November 1929 in Nömrög, zavkhan province ) is a former Mongolian politician of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) in the Mongolian People's Republic , between the 14th March and April 13, 1990 was the last General Secretary of the MRVP.

Life

Gombojaviin Ochirbat worked between 1948 and 1952 as a teacher, main teacher and most recently as rector of a secondary school in Tonchil in the Gobi-Altai-Aimag and then completed a degree at the Moscow State University . After his return, he worked between 1958 and 1962 as a lecturer and finally dean at the Mongolian State University and then deputy editor-in-chief of the party newspaper Unen . He was also chairman of the journalists' association and, between 1966 and 1972, he was also a deputy of the Great People's Chural , the parliament of the Mongolian People's Republic. In 1969 he became head of the ideology department of the Central Committee (ZK) of the MRVP and also studied at the Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the CPSU, which he graduated in 1972. On his return he served as chairman of the central council of the trade union federation between 1972 and 1982. In 1982 he temporarily lost his influence and from 1982 to 1985 he was chairman of the United Editorial Collective for non-fiction books and magazines at the Ministry of Education and as a department head at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the MRVP, before becoming deputy head of a Central Committee department in 1985. At the same time, between 1988 and 1990, as a representative of the MRVP, he belonged to the editorial collective of the Prague magazine "Marxist World".

After Jambyn Batmönch had lost his office as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the MRVP in the course of the collapse of communism on March 14, 1990, Gombojaviin Ochirbat was his successor on March 14, 1990. Nine days later, on March 23, 1990, the “leading role” of the MRVP in the Mongolian People's Republic was abolished. Another three weeks later, on April 13, 1990, his term of office as the last General Secretary of the Central Committee of the MRVP ended. In May 1990 he became the first chairman of the MRVP and in July 1990 also a deputy of the Great State of Chural . On November 21, 1990, he was re-elected as chairman of the MRVP. In February 1991, as party chairman, he met with General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Jiang Zemin . He was succeeded as chairman of the MRVP in 1991 Büdragchaagiin Dash-Yondon . In 1992 he was awarded the Süchbaatar Order named after Damdiny Süchbaatar .

Web links

• Entry in prabook.com
• Alan JK Sanders: Historical Dictionary of Mongolia , S. LX, Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 0-8108-7452-0
• Alan JK Sanders: Historical Dictionary of Mongolia , S. XLV et al., 2nd edition, Scarecrow Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8108-6601-3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mongolia: General Secretaries of the Central Committee of the MPRP
2. ↑ Guy Arnold: Revolutionary and dissident movements: an international guide , p. 216, Longman, 1991, ISBN 0-5820-8692-2
3. ^ The Far East and Australasia , p. 647, Europa Publications, 1997
4. ↑ Jonathan S. Addleton: Mongolia and the United States: A Diplomatic History , p. 38, Hong Kong University Press, 2013, ISBN 9-888-1-3994-0
5. ^ A Political Chronology of Central, South and East Asia , p. 197, Routledge, 2003, ISBN 1-1353-5680-7
6. ^ Milton Walter Meyer: Asia: A Concise History , pp. 485, 502, Rowman & Littlefield, 1997, ISBN 0-8476-8063-0

Mongolian name: As is customary in Mongolia, in this article the patronymic is in the genitive case before the proper name. Thus Gombojav is the patronymic , Ochirbat the proper name. The person is addressed with their proper name.