Wu Faxian

Lieutenant General Wu Faxian (1955)

Wu Faxian ( Chinese  吴 法 宪 ; born August 25, 1915 in Yongfeng , Ji'an , Jiangxi ; † October 17, 2004 in Jinan , Shandong ) was a Chinese politician of the Communist Party of China (CCP) and lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army , who was among other things between 1965 and 1971 was the commander of the Air Force of the People's Republic of China .

Life

Wu Faxian, who joined the Red Army in 1930, 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 Second Sino-Japanese War , which began on July 7, 1937 , he became a political officer and head of the Political Department of the 5th Division of the 8th Army in May 1940 and head of the Political Department of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army in 1941. In the second phase of the Chinese Civil War , he served as Deputy Political Commissar of the Liaoxi Military Region between 1946 and 1949 and as Political Officer of the 2nd Division of the Military Associations in Northeast China.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, Wu Faxian became a political officer in the 39th Corps of the Fourth Field Army and a political officer in the 4th Corps. In May 1950, he and Huang Yongsheng were given the task of organizing the intervention of the People's Liberation Army in the upcoming Korean War by the Central Military Commission (ZMK) . In 1950 he became Deputy Political Commissar and Head of the Political Department of the Air Force of the People's Republic of China . After the establishment of ranks in the People's Liberation Army in 1955, he was appointed Lieutenant General and replaced General Xiao Hua as Political Commissar of the Air Force in February 1957 and retained this position until he was replaced by Lieutenant General Yu Lijin in May 1965. He himself took over in May 1965 as Successor of General Liu Yalou the post as commander of the Air Force of the People's Republic of China and remained in this post until September 1971, before General Ma Ning was appointed as the new commander in May 1973 . In 1967 he also became Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army and also held this position until 1971. During the Cultural Revolution that began in 1966, he allied himself with Lin Biao , Chen Boda , Qui Huizuo , Ye Qun , Li Zuopeng , Huang Yongsheng and some like-minded people in order to be conspiratorial Intention to take 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 August 30, 1971. In July 1971, Mao Zedong decided to get rid of Lin Biao and his generals, Huang Yongsheng, Qui Huizou, 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 , Wu Faxian was arrested on September 24, 1971 and lost his functions as a 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. In 1973 he was expelled from the Communist Party. It was not until 1980 that the "counter-revolutionary clique" around Lin Biao was tried in Beijing, during which he was sentenced to 17 years in prison in 1981 by a Beijing special court.

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Individual evidence

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

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