Ho, Chi Minh

*		1890
†		1969

Beruf
Vietnese politician

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	descended from a Vietnamese mandarin family; leaves Indochina (Vietnam) in 1911; lives in France and England until 1917
	1920 co-founder of the Communist Party of France (CPF)
	1924/25 resides in Moscow
	1925 Founder of the Revolutionary Youth of Vietnam (predecessor of the Communist Party of Vietnam)
	1925 representative of the Comintern to the Kuomintang Revolutionary Government in the southern Province of Canton; flees from China after the break of the Kuomintang with the Communist Party of China 1927
	1930 Founder of the Communist Party of Indochina
	1934-1938 resides in the USSR
	1938-1940 Political Commissar with Kuomintang troops in China
	1940 organizes the first uprisings against Japanese occupation forces in Indochina
	Founder of the Vietminh to fight the Japanese occupation; after 1945 continues the fight against French forces, which attempt to restore the colonial regime
	1945 proclaims the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, President 1954-1969 and Premier 1954-1955 of North Vietnam
	directs the civil war against South Vietnam (from 1958) and supports the South Vietnam Liberation Front (FLN)
	dies 1969 before the conclusion of the Vietnam war (1972) and the reunification of Vietnam (1975)