Wan Fulin

Wan Fulin

Wan Fulin ( Chinese  萬福 麟  /  万福 麟 , Pinyin Wàn Fúlín , W.-G. Wan Fu-lin ; Zì 壽山 , Shòushān , Shou-shan ; * 1880 ; † 1951 ) was a Chinese general in the time of the Warlord Era and the Second Sino-Japanese War .

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Wan, who was a member of the Fengtian clique in northeast China's Manchuria , was the military governor of Heilongjiang Province from June to August 1928 , which at that time was de facto under the control of the Beiyang government .

In addition to Zhang Zuoxiang and Zhang Xueliang , the son of the ruler of the Fengtian clique, Zhang Zuo-lin , Wan was one of the main initiators that the replacement of fünfstreifigen Flag of the Republic of China through the new flag of the republic under the rule of the Kuomintang ruled and thus at 29 December 1928 the Chinese reunification carried out. In gratitude for this he was promoted again to governor of Heilongjiang from January 1929 to October 1931 before his absence after the Mukden incident and during the Japanese invasion of Manchuria led to Zhang Xueliang having him replaced by General Ma Zhanshan .

As a replacement for this he was given command of the 32nd Corps of the Chinese Northeast Army in November, which had to withdraw from Manchuria in the course of the advance of the Japanese. He also commanded this in February and March 1933 at the Battle of Rehe . His poorly equipped troops could not do much against the Japanese and had to withdraw early in the battle.

After the battle he was given command of the 53rd Corps, which remained in the north as one of the few larger units of the Northeast Army while most of the troops were withdrawn to fight the communist insurrections in the south . After the incident at the Marco Polo Bridge , he sent a brigade to support the 29th Corps in the battle for Peking-Tianjin , but did not command it himself. Later his corps fought defensive battles with the Japanese along the railway lines from Beijing to Hankou and from Tianjin to Pukou .

In the late summer and autumn of 1938 he was in command of the 26th Army, with which he fought in the Battle of Wuhan .

During the whole of the Second Sino-Japanese War he was chairman of the exiled provincial government of Fengtian and from 1942 to 1945 he was also a member of the National Military Council . He died in 1951.

literature

• Xu Longxun and Zhang Mingkai: History of the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Zhong Wu Publishing Company, 1985.

Web links

• Wan Fulin in the World War II Generals Database. Retrieved June 17, 2011.

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Wan is the family name here, Fulin is the first name.