Ngô Đình Nhu

Ngô Đình Nhu

Ngô Đình Nhu (born October 7, 1910 , † November 2, 1963 in Saigon ) was a Vietnamese historian and politician. As the brother of Ngô Đình Diệm , he was interior minister in South Vietnam until 1963 .

Life

Ngô Đình Nhu was born as the son of the influential Mandarin Ngô Đình Kha in the province of Thua Tien. He enjoyed a privileged education and traveled to Paris in 1931 to study . He graduated as a historian in 1938 . On his return to French Indochina , he took on a leading role in archives and libraries. In 1943 he married Trần Lệ Xuân, who became known as Madame Nhu . He also supported the political work of his older brother and from 1950 published a magazine on politics and society and propagated a Vietnamese nationalism apart from the colonialism of France and the communism of the Viet Minh . 1952-1953 he formed the Can Lao party, on which his brother should build a power base.

Ngô Đình Nhu was considered one of the most influential leaders of the Diem regime. The United States saw in him a reason for the lack of popularity of the South Vietnamese government. In 1963 John F. Kennedy asked Diem to remove Nhus. Both Nhu and Diệm were killed in the aftermath of the US-backed military coup carried out by ARVN generals under Dương Văn Minh on November 2, 1963 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christopher E. Goscha : Historical Dictionary of the Indochina War (1945-1954) , Copenhagen, 2011, p. 314
2. ↑ Bruce Lockhart, William J. Duiker: Historical Dictionary of Vietnam , Oxford, 2006 p. 257