Mohammad Hatta
Mohammad Hatta , often also Mohammed Hatta , (born August 12, 1902 in Bukittinggi on Sumatra , † March 14, 1980 in Jakarta ) was Vice President and Prime Minister of Indonesia .
After visiting the school Hatta went to training in the Netherlands, where he worked in Rotterdam , the trade-University of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam visited. In the Netherlands he also became a leading force among the Indonesian students there.
In 1922 he became a member of the Indonesian independence movement against Dutch colonial rule. In 1926 and 1927 he represented the movement at the congresses of the International Anti-Imperialist League in Paris , Berlin and Brussels to solicit support. Because of this engagement he was arrested in June 1927. Six months later, a trial against members of the independence movement began in The Hague . In a well-received speech, he showed that the interests of the Netherlands and Indonesia are incompatible and that the policies of the colonial power cannot therefore find support. Cooperation would only be possible if Indonesia were viewed independently and on an equal footing with the Netherlands. In 1929 Hatta was released from prison.
Returned to Indonesia in the summer of 1932, he and Sutan Syahrir founded the Pendidikan Nasional Indonesia (“new” PNI in succession to the “old” PNI Partai Nasional Indonesia Sukarnos ) and assumed its chairmanship. In 1934 he was arrested again and sent into exile: from January 1935 to Boven Digoel on Papua , from January 1936 to February 1942 to Banda Neira and until March 1942 in Sukabumi on West Java , where he was liberated by the Japanese conquerors in 1942 .
After the Japanese surrender and before the arrival of Allied troops, Hatta and Sukarno jointly declared their independence from the Dutch motherland on August 17, 1945 . The Netherlands asserted their claims with two "police actions" , in which Hatta was arrested again in 1948.
The pressure of the world public and the USA finally led to the Dutch recognition of independence in 1949. From 1945 onwards, Hatta held the office of Vice President at the side of President Sukarno, and was then appointed Prime Minister of the country in 1948, where he ruled for two years. After Sukarno's fall in 1966, Hatta became an adviser to his successor, Suharto .
Web links
- Literature by and about Mohammad Hatta in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Decolonization in the Netherlands. on: uni-muenster.de
- ↑ Since everyone is looking away. In: Der Spiegel. 52/1948.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hatta, Mohammad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hatta, Mohammed |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indonesian politician, Vice President and Prime Minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bukittinggi in Sumatra |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1980 |
| Place of death | Jakarta |