Liu Zhidan

Liu Zhidan

Liu Zhidan ( Chinese  劉志丹  /  刘志丹 , Pinyin Liú Zhìdān , W.-G. Liu Chih-tan ; * 1903 in Bao'an , Shaanxi ; † April 1936 near Sanjiao , Shanxi ) was an important commander of the Chinese Red Army and founder of the communist base in northern Shaanxi.

Liu was born in Bao'an and organized a student movement in his youth. In 1924 he joined the Socialist Youth League, in 1925 the Communist Party . During the First United Front, he trained at the Whampoa Military Academy in Guangzhou . After graduation, he became the Communist Party envoy to the warlord Feng Yuxiang's forces . In April 1928 he organized the Weihua Uprising with Xie Zhichang and Tang Shu , after which he founded the Revolutionary Northwest Workers and Peasants Army, which was commanded by Liu from 1932 as the 26th Red Army. The relatively small communist Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia base , which this army defended under the leadership of Liu and Gao Gang , comprised 20 counties, but was largely outside the direct influence of the Communist Party's Politburo. It became the target of the Red Army under Mao Zedong at the end of the Long March . In August 1935, Liu Zhidan's 26th Army and Xu Haidong's 25th Army merged to form the 15th Army Corps, of which Liu Zhidan became deputy commander. In October he was removed from his post and arrested in a political cleansing operation. After Mao Zedong's arrival, he was rehabilitated and appointed commander of the 28th Army. With these troops, Liu took part in the Eastern campaign in April 1936 , where he was killed in an ambush near Sanjiao ( Shanxi Province ) by Kuomintang troops.

Zhidan County is named in honor of Liu Zhidan .

Web links

Commons : Liu Zhidan  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} James Z. Gao: Historical dictionary of modern China (1800-1949) . Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-4930-3 , pp. 216-217 .
2. ↑ Dieter Kuhn : The Republic of China from 1912 to 1937 - Draft for a political history of events . 3. Edition. Edition Forum, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 3-927943-25-8 , p. 545 .
3. ↑ Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine: Mao: The Real Story . Simon & Schuster, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-4516-5447-9 , pp. 287-288 .

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Liu is the family name here, Zhidan is the first name.