Lin Tie

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Lin Tie
林铁
Lin Tie in 1949
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Hebei
In office
1949–1966
Preceded byNew title
Succeeded byLiu Zihou
Governor of Hebei
In office
1952–1958
Preceded byYang Xiufeng
Succeeded byLiu Zihou
Personal details
BornNovember 1904
Communist Party of China

Lin Tie (

Communist Party Chief and the second Governor of Hebei province of the PRC, but was purged in 1966 at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.[1]

Communist revolution

Lin Tie was born in November 1904 to an educated family in

Wanxian, Sichuan province (now Wanzhou District, Chongqing). Born Liu Shude (刘树德), he also used the pseudonyms Li Te (李特) and Zhao Fu (赵福).[1]

Lin entered Wanxian Middle School in 1918 and then Chongqing United High School in 1922, where he was influenced by the Communist youth leaders

Communist Party of China (CPC) at the University of Law and Politics.[1]

In Spring 1928 Lin was dispatched by the CPC to Paris, France, where he enrolled at the University of Paris. He continued to participate in revolutionary and union activities in Paris, and was soon deported by the French government. He left for Belgium, but was again deported by that country. In January 1932 he was sent to the Soviet Union to study at the International Lenin School and later the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, two Communist cadre training schools in Moscow. He returned to China in late 1935.[1]

During the

Political Commissar of the Central Hebei Military Region.[1]

People's Republic of China

After the Communists defeated the

direct-controlled municipality separate from Hebei). Lin wanted to utilize Tianjin's industry and educational resources to help modernize the rural areas, but his plans were derailed by Mao Zedong's disastrous Great Leap Forward.[3]

In May 1966, Mao Zedong purged

Politburo member, Beijing party chief Peng Zhen and started the decade-long Cultural Revolution.[5] As Lin Tie was associated with the political network of Peng Zhen,[6] Governor Liu Zihou took the opportunity to make a bid for the top office of Hebei. Liu courted Li Xuefeng, party chief of North China which includes Hebei province, and denounced Lin Tie. Lin was stripped of all his positions and imprisoned in a military compound. Liu subsequently persecuted many war heroes including his own former associates, resulting in at least 33 deaths.[5]

By January 1967, the capital of Hebei had been moved back to Baoding from Tianjin. When Liu Zihou arrived in Baoding, he was attacked and detained by rebel

Red Guards, which included supporters of Lin Tie. On 29 January, the red guards of the August First faction paraded Liu on a truck for five hours, which was witnessed by a million people. On 11 February, the 69th Army of the PLA commanded by General Xie Zhenhua jailed 1000 members of the August First red guards, and restored Liu Zihou to power.[7]

In 1967 Lin Tie's former subordinates in Hebei denounced

Khrushchev, and Lin Tie as Liu's agent in Hebei. Vice Governor Yang Lichen, Lin's former lieutenant, was persecuted to death.[8]

After the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976 and the rise to power of reformer Deng Xiaoping, Lin Tie was rehabilitated. In 1982 he was elected a member of the Central Advisory Commission. On 17 September 1989, Lin Tie died in Beijing, aged 84.[1]

Lin was a member of the

Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h 林铁 [Lin Tie] (in Chinese). Government Dictionary. Retrieved 18 May 2013.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "开国省长、书记之林铁" [Governor and Party Secretary Lin Tie]. People's Daily. 8 October 2006. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
  3. ^ a b Friedman, Pickowicz & Selden 2005, p. 7
  4. ^ Friedman, Pickowicz & Selden 2005, pp. 28–29
  5. ^ a b Friedman, Pickowicz & Selden 2005, pp. 84–85
  6. ^ Friedman, Pickowicz & Selden 2005, p. 4
  7. ^ Friedman, Pickowicz & Selden 2005, pp. 108–109
  8. ^ Friedman, Pickowicz & Selden 2005, pp. 113–115

References

New title First Secretary of the Communist Party of Hebei
1949–1966
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Hebei Province

1952–1958
Succeeded by