Qiu Huizuo

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Qiu Huizuo (1955)

Qiu Huizuo ( Chinese  邱 会 作 ; born April 16, 1914 in Xingguo , Ganzhou , Jiangxi , † July 18, 2002 in Beijing ) was a Chinese politician of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army .

Life

Qiu Huizuo, who joined the Red Army in 1929 , first became a member of the Communist Youth Association of China (KJVC) in 1930 and a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1932 . During the Chinese Civil War in the early phase of this "first revolutionary war" until 1936, he was initially an officer for press and public relations and later a logistics officer of the 5th Army Group. He took part in the Long March between 1934 and 1935 and at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War on July 7, 1937, he became Deputy Director for Supply and Logistics of the Central Military Commission (ZMK) and later in this war, which lasted until 1945, became a political officer of the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army and, most recently, director of the organizational department of the New Fourth Army. In the second phase of the Chinese Civil War, he served as a political officer in the 8th Division of the Northeast Field Army between 1946 and 1949.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, Qiu Huizuo became deputy political officer and head of the political department of the 15th Corps of the People's Liberation Army, and then head of the political department of the military region of South China . After the introduction of ranks in the People's Liberation Army in 1955, he was appointed lieutenant general. On October 14, 1959, he replaced General Hong Xuezhi as head of the General Logistics Department of the People's Liberation Army and held this position until September 24, 1971, whereupon General Zhang Zongxun took his place. At the same time he was Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army. During the Cultural Revolution , which began in 1966, he allied himself with Lin Biao , Chen Boda , Wu Faxian , Ye Qun , Li Zuopeng , Huang Yongsheng and some like-minded people in order to conspiratorially take over power in the highest party and state bodies . On the IX. At the CCP Congress (April 1-24, 1969) he was also elected a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China and a member of the CCP Central Committee and was a member of these top bodies until September 24, 1971. However, in July 1971, Mao Zedong decided to get rid of Lin Biao and his generals, Huang Yongsheng, Wu Faxian, Li Zuopeng and Huang Yongsheng. Therefore, from August 15 to September 12, 1971, he undertook a trip through southern China to prepare the officials for the overthrow of Lin Biao and his generals. The May Day celebrations in Tian'anmen Square broke out when Lin Biao overrode the protocol and appeared for just a minute without speaking to Mao and his guests. In this way, the public learned that the leadership was divided.

After Lin Biao, his wife Ye Qun and his son Lin Liguo , died in unexplained circumstances over Öndörchaan in Mongolia on September 13, 1971 after fleeing China , Qiu Huizuo was arrested on September 24, 1971 and lost his position as director of the General Logistics Department of the People's Liberation Army and Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army and as a member of the Politburo and the CCP Central Committee. It was not until 1980 that a trial against the “counter-revolutionary clique” around Lin Biao took place in Beijing, during which he was sentenced in 1981 by a Beijing special court. On August 26, 1980, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress withdrew the Medal of Freedom and the Medal of Liberation that had been awarded to him in the past at its 5th plenum.

publication

  • The Memoirs of Qiu Huizou , autobiography, 2011 (posthumous)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Yuwu Song: Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China , McFarland, 2013, ISBN 0-7864-3582-8 , pp. 143, 197
  2. ^ Party Congresses of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the ruling party of People's Republic of China