Zhu De | |||||||||||
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朱德 | |||||||||||
1st Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China | |||||||||||
In office 27 September 1954 – 27 April 1959 | |||||||||||
Chairman | Mao Zedong | ||||||||||
Succeeded by | Soong Ching-ling and Dong Biwu | ||||||||||
Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party | |||||||||||
In office 28 September 1956 – 1 August 1966 | |||||||||||
Chairman | Mao Zedong | ||||||||||
Commander-in-Chief of the People's Liberation Army | |||||||||||
In office 28 November 1946 – 27 September 1954 | |||||||||||
Preceded by | Post established | ||||||||||
Succeeded by | Post abolished | ||||||||||
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Born | Yilong County, Sichuan, Qing dynasty | 1 December 1886||||||||||
Died | 6 July 1976 Beijing, People's Republic of China | (aged 89)||||||||||
Political party | Chinese Communist Party (1925–1976) | ||||||||||
Spouses | Xiao Jufang
(m. 1912; died 1916)Chen Yuzhen
(m. 1916; died 1935)Wu Ruolan
(m. 1928; died 1929) | ||||||||||
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Alma mater | Yunnan Military Academy | ||||||||||
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Years of service | 1927–1976 | ||||||||||
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Chinese | 朱德 | ||||||||||
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Courtesy name: Yujie | |||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 朱玉阶 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 朱玉階 | ||||||||||
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Zhu De[a] (1 December 1886 – 6 July 1976) was a Chinese general, military strategist, politician and revolutionary in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Zhu was born into poverty in 1886 in Sichuan. He was adopted by a wealthy uncle at age nine and received a superior early education that led to his admission into a military academy. After graduating, he joined a rebel army and became a warlord. Afterward he joined the CCP. He commanded the Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War. By the end of the civil war he was also a high-ranking party official.
Zhu is regarded as one of the principal founders of the People's Republic of China, and was a prominent political figure until dying in 1976. In 1955, he was ranked first among the ten marshals.
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