Luo Ronghuan
Luo Ronghuan (born November 26, 1902 in Hengshan , Empire of China , † December 16, 1963 in Beijing , People's Republic of China ) was a Chinese army officer and party functionary . He reached the rank of Marshal of the People's Liberation Army . In the public eye, he became a well-known example of an efficient political officer who was close to the people .
origin
Luo Ronghuan was born in 1902 in Hengshan County, Hunan Province . His father was a shop owner in the family's home village and also worked as a village school teacher.
Luo Ronghuan was educated from the age of eight. His father arranged for the seventeen-year-old to marry a bride from the same village. After the wedding, he went to Qingdao to study engineering . After three years, he left the city and tried unsuccessfully to enter Zhongshan University in Guangzhou Province . During his stay there he had contact with communist cadres for the first time. He returned to his home village in November 1926, where his father rejected him because of his failure. Luo Ronghuan went to Wuhan where he joined the communist movement in 1927. He wrote to his parents and his wife, who meanwhile had a daughter, informed them that he did not want to return to them.
Party activity in the civil war
Luo Ronghuan joined the Communist Youth Association in April 1927 . During the Nanchang uprising , he gained party membership and served as a political officer for the first time . After the failed autumn harvest uprising , he joined Mao Tse Tung and Zhu De in their retreat in the Jinggang Mountains . He rose further during the civil war, and by the time of the Jiangxi Soviet he was already a political officer at the army level . After the Japanese attack on China and the renewed peace with the Kuomintang , he took over the post of political officer of the 115th Division. He was also active in the administration of Shandong Province . After the Japanese surrender in August 1945, he was entrusted with the disarmament of Wang Jingwei's pro-Japanese troops . He ended the war as a political officer in the Northeastern Field Army commanded by Lin Biao . In the publications of the communists he was shown as a role model for the political officer who worried about his subordinates.
State offices in the People's Republic
After the founding of the People's Republic, he took over the post of Director of the General Political Department of the Central Military Commission, which formally represents the highest decision-making body in the armed forces. After the war, he suffered from high blood pressure and coronary heart disease . In 1954 he was appointed Marshal and took on the role of President of the Political Academy of the People's Liberation Army. At the end of his career he was one of the critics of the Great Leap Forward and the politics of Lin Biao , who had meanwhile been promoted to Secretary of Defense.
Luo Ronghuan died in December 1963. He was given a state funeral .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Dr. Christoper Lew: Luo Ronghuan in Xiaobing Li (Ed.): China at War - An Encyclopedia. Oxford, 2012 p. 307 - p. 248f
- ↑ a b Sherman Xiaogang Lai: A Springboard to Victory - Shandong Province and the Chinese Communist Military and Financial Strength, 1937 - 1945. Leiden, 2011 pp. 38f
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Luo, Ronghuan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lo, Jung-huan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese Marshal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hengshan |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1963 |
| Place of death | Beijing |