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Samdech Penn Nouth ( Khmer : ស ម្តេ ច ប៉ែន នុ ត; born April 1, 1906 in Phnom Penh , Cambodia ; † May 18, 1985 in Châtenay-Malabry , Hauts-de-Seine department , France ) was a Cambodian politician of the Democratic Party (ក្រុម ប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ ) and the Socialist People's Community Sangkum (សង្គមរាស្ត្រនិយម), who was Prime Minister of Cambodia between 1948 and 1949, 1953, 1954 to 1955, 1958, 1961, between 1968 and 1969 and most recently from 1975 to 1976 .
Life
Penn Nouth completed training at the administrative school and then worked in the French colonial administration of French Indochina . In 1938 he became an employee of the French Colonial Ministry and, on his return in 1940, took over the post of Assistant to the Palace Minister at the court of King Sisowath Monivong . In 1945 he was acting finance minister for some time and then governor of Phnom Penh from 1946 to 1948 .
As the successor to Chhean Vam , Penn Nouth, who was a member of the Democratic Party (ក្រុម ប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ) at the time, became Prime Minister for the first time on August 15, 1948 and held this office until January 21, 1949, after which Yem Sambaur his on February 12, 1949 Succeeded. In his government, between 1948 and 1949, he took over the offices of Minister of the Interior and Minister of Information. In 1950 he was temporarily Minister of Defense. On January 24, 1953, he replaced Prince Norodom Sihanouk and took over the post of Prime Minister for the second time, which he held until his replacement by Chan Nak on November 22, 1953. In 1954 he held the office of finance minister again for a while, before he succeeded King Norodom Sihanouk again as prime minister on April 18, 1954. He remained in this office until he was replaced by Leng Ngeth on January 26, 1955, making him the first Prime Minister of Cambodia after France dissolved its colony of French Indochina after the Indochina Conference from April 26, 1954 to July 20, 1954 in Geneva Cambodia granted state independence .
Penn Nouth, who was awarded the honorary title of Samdech in January 1956 and who was now a member of the Sangkum Socialist Community , took over the post of Prime Minister for the fourth time from Ek Yi Oun on January 17, 1958 . He held this until April 24, 1958 and was then replaced by Sim Var . At the same time he took over the office of Foreign Minister in his fourth cabinet. He then acted as ambassador to France between 1958 and 1960 . After his return he was again Prime Minister on January 28, 1961 as the successor to Pho Proeung and held the office until his replacement by Norodom Sihanouk on November 17, 1961. His cabinet he was a Minister of the Interior between 1961 and 1962. On January 31, 1968, he took over the post of Prime Minister as the successor to Son Sann and held this office until he was replaced by Lon Nol on August 14, 1969.
After the overthrow of King Norodom Sihanouk by Prime Minister Lon Nol on March 18, 1970 and the beginning of the civil war , Penn Nouth remained a loyal supporter of the king, who had gone into exile in Beijing . In 1970 he appointed him Prime Minister of the Royal Government-in-Exile of the National Union of Kampuchea GRUNK ((Gouvernement Royal d'Union Nationale du Kampuchéa)) , although he had concerns about Sihanouk's links with the Khmer Rouge . After the fall of the Khmer republic of Lon Nol, the fall of Phnom Penh and the establishment of the Democratic Kampuchea , he returned from exile with Norodom Sihanouk and officially dressed again from April 17, 1975 until he was replaced by Khieu Samphan on April 4, 1976 the office of prime minister.
Web links
- Entry in rulers.org
- Al Santoli: To Bear Any Burden: The Vietnam War and Its Aftermath in the Words of Americans and Southeast Asians , S. XII u. a., Indiana University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-2533-3543-4
- Juliet Flower MacCannell: The Terrible But Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia , p. 10 u. a., University of Nebraska Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8032-6361-9
- Priscilla Mary Roberts: Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and the World Beyond Asia , p. 373, Stanford University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-8047-5502-7
- Philip Short: Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare , Hachette Verlag, 2013, ISBN 1-4447-8030-1
- William J. Rust: Eisenhower and Cambodia: Diplomacy, Covert Action, and the Origins of the Second Indochina War , University Press of Kentucky, 2016, ISBN 0-8131-6745-0
- Arthur S. Banks, Alan J. Day, Thomas C. Muller: Political Handbook of the World 1998 , p. 142, Verlag Springer, 2016, ISBN 1-3491-4951-9
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cambodia: Prime Ministers (rulers.org)
- ^ John V. Da Graca: Heads of State and Government , p. 120, Verlag Springer, 1985, ISBN 1-3490-7999-5
- ↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz, Christof Hartmann: Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook: Volume II: South East Asia, East Asia, and the South Pacific , pp. 77 f., Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0 -1992-4959-8
- ^ Minority Problems in Southeast Asia , p. 191 and a., Stanford University Press, ISBN 0-8047-3786-X
- ↑ Arthur J. Dommen: The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam , p. 211 u. a., Indiana University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-2531-0925-6
- ↑ Cambodia: Foreign Ministers (rulers.org)
- ↑ Julia Pascal: Women in Theater 2 £ 3 , p. 34, Routledge Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-1353-0536-6
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Penn Nouth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | ស ម្តេ ច ប៉ែន នុ ត (Khmer) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cambodian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Phnom Penh , Cambodia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 1985 |
| Place of death | Châtenay-Malabry , Hauts-de-Seine department , France |