Honorific Prefix: | Colonel General |
Birth Name: | Trần Khuy |
Nickname: | Trần Lương, Hai Hậu |
Office: | Defence Minister of Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam |
Term Start: | 1969 |
Term End: | 1976 |
Predecessor: | Office established |
Successor: | Office merged |
Primeminister: | Huỳnh Tấn Phát |
Birth Date: | 6 January 1912 |
Birth Place: | Mộ Đức, Quảng Ngãi, Annam (French protectorate) |
Death Place: | Hà Nội, Việt Nam |
Party: | Communist Party of Vietnam |
Allegiance: | Democratic Republic of Vietnam and later Republic of South Vietnam |
Branch: | People's Army of Vietnam |
Rank: | Colonel General |
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Awards: | Gold Star Order Ho Chi Minh Order |
Trần Nam Trung (born Trần Khuy) (1912 - 2009) was a colonel-general in the People's Army of Vietnam active during the First Indochina War and Vietnam War. He was the unique Defence Minister of Republic of South Vietnam.
Trần Nam Trung was born Trần Khuy in a peasant family in Mộ Đức district, Quảng Ngãi province of the Annam Protectorate, French Indochina in 1912. He joined the Communist Party of Annam in 1927, then the Indochinese Communist Party in 1931.[1]
After, Trần Nam Trung was appointed to Secretary of the Quảng Ngãi - Bình Định Provincial Party Committee. After August uprising, he held the position of political commissar of and Buôn Hồ - An Khê front.[2]
Since 1976, Trần Nam Trung left military, was appointed to Chief of Government Inspectorate and kept the position till he retired in 1982. He was promoted to Major General in 1962, and Colonel General in 1974.[1]