Trần Đại Quang

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Trần Đại Quang (born October 12, 1956 in today's Ninh Binh Province , Vietnam, † September 21, 2018 in Hanoi ) was a Vietnamese politician and from April 2, 2016 until his death the eighth President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam .

Life

Trần Đại Quang was born in a village in the Kim Sơn district in today's Ninh Binh Province in the Red River Delta south of Hanoi . Quang was married to Nguyễn Thị Hiền , who performed ceremonial functions as First Lady of Vietnam.

From 1972 a long police and secret service career began for him. On November 12, 1983, he became a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam and from 1997 a number of times a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam and a member of the Central Committee of the party.

At the 12th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam in December 2015, the Police General and previous Minister of Public Security was proposed as President of the Republic and on April 2, 2016, with 91.5 percent of the votes, the 11th session of the XIII. National Assembly confirmed. On that day he succeeded Trương Tấn Sang . On the same day he proposed Nguyễn Xuân Phúc as the new head of government .

Trần Đại Quang died at the age of 61 on September 21, 2018 after a long illness in a military hospital in Hanoi

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vietnam President Quang has died. In: stern.de . September 21, 2018. Retrieved September 21, 2018 . Khanh Vu, James Pearson, Raju Gopalakrishnan: Vietnam's President Quang dies after 'serious illness'. In: Reuters . September 21, 2018, accessed on September 21, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Nguyễn Thị Hiền Bio, Biography, Age, {Photos}, Trần Đại Quang wife, Vietnam First Lady. In: Glob Intel | Web / Systems Development | SEO & Data Analytics. Retrieved September 26, 2019 (American English).
  3. ↑ Security chief Quang is the new President of Vietnam. In: Wochenblatt . April 2, 2016, archived from the original on April 2, 2016 ; accessed on September 21, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Serious illness: Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang is dead . In: Spiegel Online . September 21, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed September 21, 2018]).
Note: The surname of this Vietnamese name is Trần , in Western texts the spelling is often simplified Tran . According to Vietnamese custom, the person should be referred to by their nickname Quang - even in formal situations .
personal data
SURNAME Trần Đại Quang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese politician, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Today's Ninh Binh Province , Vietnam
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2018
Place of death Hanoi