Süchbaataryn Yandschmaa

Süchbaataryn Jandschmaa with her husband Damdin Süchbaatar

Süchbaataryn Jandschmaa ( Mongolian Сүхбаатарын Янжмаа ; originally Nemendejen Jandschmaa , Нэмэндэен Янжмаа ) (* 1893 ; † 1963 in Ulaanbaatar ) was a politician in the Mongolian People's Republic .

Jandschmaa was a member of the Politburo of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party from 1940 to 1954, and Secretary of the Central Committee from 1941 to 1947. She was a member of the Presidium of the Lesser Chural (the Executive Committee of the Greater Chural, the Parliament) from 1940 to 1950 and a member of the Great Chural from 1950 to 1962. After Gontschigiin Bumtsend's death, she assumed the role of President of the Mongolian People's Republic for the transition period from September 23, 1953 to July 7, 1954.

This made her the second woman in the role of president of a republic, after Chertek Anchimaa in the Tuvinian People's Republic . The next and most popular was Isabel Martínez de Perón in Argentina from 1974, the first democratically elected president was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir in 1980 in Iceland .

Süchbaataryn Jandschmaa was the widow of Damdin Süchbaatar , who died in 1923 at the age of only 30, revered as a national hero. Instead of the father's name (Nemendejen) normally used in Mongolia, she took the name of her deceased husband after his death.

The politician was an exception in the political landscape of Mongolia. The country was like other communist states in which, despite rhetoric to the contrary, real power was reserved to a small group of men. Süchbaataryn Jandschmaa, on the other hand, became one of the most important leaders of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pavel Maškarinec: Mongolia: Transformation of Women's Representation. In: Susan Franceschet et al. (Ed.): The Palgrave Handbook of Women's Political Rights. Palgrave Macmillian Limited, London 2018, pp. 713-727, p. 714.
2. ^ AJK Sanders: Historical Dictionary of Mongolia. 1st edition, Scarecrow Press, Lanham 1996, pp. 1152-1154, quoted from Pavel Maškarinec: Mongolia: Transformation of Women's Representation. In: Susan Franceschet et al. (Ed.): The Palgrave Handbook of Women's Political Rights. Palgrave Macmillian Limited, London 2018, pp. 713-727, p. 714.

predecessor	Office	successor
Gonchigiin Bumtsend	President of Mongolia September 23, 1953 - July 7, 1954	Jamsrangiin Sambuu

Mongolian name: As is customary in Mongolia, in this article the patronymic is in the genitive case before the proper name. Thus Nemendejen is the patronymic, Jandschmaa the proper name. The person is addressed with their proper name.