Lê Thiết Hùng
Lê Thiết Hùng (* 1908 ; † 1986 in Hanoi ) was a Vietnamese officer and party activist . He was one of the communist leadership cadres who built up the armed forces of the Viet Minh at the time of the Indochina War and was the first officer in the general rank of the Army of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam . During the Vietnam War , he switched to the diplomatic service.
Origin and career
Le Thiet Hung came from Nghệ An Province in Tonkin . As a teenager he left his homeland for Thailand in 1923 and in 1924 for Canton in the Republic of China . There he joined the communist youth movement of Vietnam under the aegis of Ho Chi Minh . Le Thiet Hung quickly learned Chinese and received an officer training from the Whampoa Military Academy . After this he became a member of the nationalist and anti-colonial Guomindang ruling China and an officer in the Army of the Republic of China. During the 1930s, he served as a spy within the Guomindang forces for both the Vietnamese and Chinese Communists . He had been a member of the Indochinese Communist Party since 1930.
General of the Viet Minh Forces
In 1941 Le Thiet Hung was commissioned to start building Vietnamese armed forces under communist leadership. In the course of the August Revolution , he was given the post of head of the military academy in Cao Bang and took an active role in the region in the communist seizure of power after the collapse of Japan. In 1946 he was promoted to general and took a post on the central military commission. As part of this post he took over command of coordinating the withdrawal of the remaining Chinese national troops from North Vietnam. When the Indochina War broke out, Le Thiet Hung took command of Inter-Zone IV. In 1947 he was appointed the first General Inspector of the Army. During the Indochina War , Le Thiet Hung served as field commander as well as an officer in troop training. He also took on the task of training troops in the People's Republic of China , where the Viet Minh had their own military academy.
Ambassador activity
From 1963, Le Thiet Hung acted as North Vietnam's ambassador to North Korea .
family
Le Thiet Hung's first marriage was childless. His wife died in the Chinese war capital of Chongqing during World War II . In 1948 he married a doctor who worked in the military.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Christopher E. Goscha: Historical Dictionary of the Indochina War (1945-1954) - An International and Interdisciplinary Approach. Copenhagen 2011, p. 267
- ↑ Decrees of the North Vietnamese government archived on Wikisource , (Vietnamese), last accessed on November 9, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Le, Thiet Hung |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Vietnamese general and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nge Anh Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1986 |
| Place of death | Hanoi |