Nguyễn Thái Học

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Nguyễn Thái Học

Nguyễn Thái Học , Chữ Hán : 阮 太 學; (* 1902 ; † 1930 ) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and founder of the Việt Nam Quốc dân Đảng (VNQDĐ), the Vietnamese Nationalist Party. After the failure of the mutiny of the Yên Bái garrison instigated by the VNQDD on February 9, 1930, he was arrested and executed by the French colonial authorities .

Life

Nguyễn Thái Học was born into a farming family in Vĩnh Yên in the Red River Delta . He studied education and trade in Hanoi . He found a job as a school teacher. At the beginning of his political engagement, Nguyen Thai Hoc relied on a reform of colonialism, which he called for in a letter to the French Governor General Alexandre Varenne . In 1927 he was one of the founding and leading members of the VNQDD, along with Pham Tuan Tai and Nguyen Khac Nhu . The party that was persecuted was organizationally based on the communist parties, but politically it was based on the republican nationalism of the Guomindang . The party's goals were to overcome colonialism and establish a country-wide Vietnamese republic based on popular sovereignty and the rule of law. In the wake of the failed revolt of Yen Bai, Nguyen Thai Hoc was sentenced to death by the French and guillotined . His fiancée Nguyen Thi Giang committed suicide after his execution and left a political will and a personal suicide note.

Culture of remembrance

After the Japanese came to power in the colony in March 1945, Nguyen Thai Hoc was publicly honored as a national hero.

Although he, as a Confucian nationalist, was far removed from the socialist groups that formed at that time (at the instigation of Ho Chi Minh ), he is officially revered as an important figure in a number of fighters against foreign rule. A main street is named after him in all important cities of Vietnam .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bruce Lockhart, William J. Duiker: Historical Dictionary of Vietnam. Lanham, 2006, pp. 274f
  2. ↑ a b Christopher E. Goscha : Vietnam - A New History. New York, 2016, pp. 135-137
  3. ↑ Christopher E. Goscha: Vietnam - A New History. New York, 2016, p. 362
personal data
SURNAME Nguyễn, Thái Học
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nguyen, Thai Hoc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese revolutionary and party founder
DATE OF BIRTH 1902
DATE OF DEATH after February 9, 1930