Hồ Tùng Mậu
Vietnamese activist and politician
Hồ Tùng Mậu (15 June 1896 – 23 July 1951) was a revolutionary activist and politician in Vietnam. He was a member of both the Chinese Communist Party and the Communist Party of Vietnam, a member of the Central Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the Inspector General of the Government Inspectorate.
Biography
In March 1926, he joined the Chinese Communist Party. After four years, he became a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam. He was arrested three times by the Chiang Kai-shek government in 1927, 1928 and 1929. Released late in 1929, he actively contributed to the unification of Vietnamese communist organizations in Kowloon (Hong Kong) on February 3, 1930.
After the August Revolution, he was assigned to the positions of: Head of the Main Military School, President of the Inter-Zone IV Resistance Committee, and Standing Member of the Inter-Regional Party Committee. In 1947, he was the head of the Government Inspectorate Board, and later became the president of Friendship Association of Viet Hoa. At the Second Party Congress in February 1951, he was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
On July 23, 1951, he sacrificed on his way into the Inter-operative Zone IV, being hit by a French plane in Phố Còng, Tĩnh Gia district, Thanh Hóa province.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10772036. VIAF identifies the subject as 19002424. The Library of Congress control number is n98094446. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1896, 1951, 1926 and 1927.
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