Thái Lập Thành

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Thái Lập Thành (* 1899 with Bạc Liêu ; † July 31, 1951 in Sa Đéc , Mekong Delta , Indochina ) was a pro-French Vietnamese colonial official and politician.

During the Indochina War he officiated for the Bảo Đại government ( State of Vietnam ) from 1950 as governor of South Vietnam ( Thủ hiierungn Nam Việt ). He replaced Trần Văn Hữu in this office , who had risen to prime minister. Thái Lập Thành was considered to be of little political importance despite his high position.

On July 31, 1951, he and the French regional commander-in-chief, General Charles Chanson , fell victim to a suicide attack during an inspection tour in the city of Sa Đéc in the Mekong Delta : A young Vietnamese blew himself up with a grenade right next to them. The governor died instantly, the general died a few hours later. The Việt Minh were initially held responsible for the attack ; More likely, however, is the involvement of the Cao Đài militia leader Trình Minh Thế . The government took the attack as an opportunity to ban the paramilitary youth militia of the Đại Việt party (Thanh niên Bảo quốc Đoàn).

A street in Saigon was named after him ( Đường Thái Lập Thành , since 1975 Đông Du ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.vietnamtk20.vn: Tuong Pháp và Thủ Chanson Hien Nam Việt Thái Thành Lập bị tử Nam trong một Tran Bao đánh táo của Việt Minh ở Sa Đéc ( Memento of the original August 7, 2016 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was used automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vietnamtk20.vn
  2. ^ Ellen Joy Hammer: The Struggle for Indochina, 1940-1955 , Stanford University Press, 1966, p. 274
  3. ↑ CIA Daily Digest 159 (August 1, 1951): "Governor Thai Lap Thanh was, despite his title, a relatively uninfluential figure in the Vietnam administration."
  4. ↑ Serguei A. Blagov: Honest Mistakes: The Life and Death of Trình Minh Thế (1922-1955), South Vietnam's Alternative Leader , Nova Science, 2001, p. 29
  5. ^ Joseph Buttinger: Vietnam: Vietnam at war , Pall Mall, 1967, p. 1244
personal data
SURNAME Thái Lập Thành
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thai Lap Thanh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese governor of the pro-French government in the Indochina War
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH at Bạc Liêu
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1951
Place of death Sa Đéc , Vietnam