Phạm Hùng

Phạm Hùng (born June 11, 1912 , † March 10, 1988 in Hanoi ) was a communist party official in Vietnam. He was the country's Prime Minister from 1987 to 1988.

Life

Pham Hung came from the Vĩnh Long Province in southern Vietnam. He came from the class of the educated rural upper class.

He had been in the Indochinese Communist Party since 1930 . The following year he was arrested by the French colonial authorities for killing a landowner and sentenced to death . His sentence was commuted to imprisonment. In 1936 he was given an amnesty. However, he was arrested again in 1939 and remained imprisoned on the prison island of Poulo Condore until 1945 . During his detention, he is portrayed as one of the leaders of the communist prisoners. During the Indochina War he was one of the active party leaders in the south of the country and, although formally in a subordinate position, controlled large parts of the security organs of the Viet Minh in the south. In 1951 he was appointed as a member of the party's central committee.

After France left, Pham Hung was summoned to Hanoi in 1955. In 1957 he became a member of the party's Politburo . During the Vietnam War in 1967 he took over the party's central office for South Vietnam under the code name Bay Cuong. After the war he returned to his position in the Politburo. In 1979 he became Minister of the Interior. In 1987 he took over the post of Prime Minister after Pham Van Dong withdrew.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Bruce L. Lockhart, William J. Duiker: Historical Dictionary of Vietnam , Oxford, 2006, p. 304
2. ↑ Jacques Dalloz: Dictionnaire de la Guerre d'Indochine , Paris, 2006, p. 195
   Christopher E. Goscha : Historical Dictionary of the Indochina War (1945-1954) - An International and Interdisciplinary Approach. Copenhagen 2011, pp. 169f