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Chiang Wei-kuo (; 6 October 1916 – 22 September 1997), also known as Wego Chiang, was the adopted son of
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, the adoptive brother of President
Chiang Ching-kuo Chiang Ching-kuo (27 April 1910 – 13 January 1988) was a politician of the Republic of China after its retreat to Taiwan. The eldest and only biological son of former president Chiang Kai-shek, he held numerous posts in the government ...
, a retired
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, and an important figure in the
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. His
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s were Jian'gao () and Niantang (). Chiang served in the
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before fighting in the
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and
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.


Early life

As one of two sons of Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Wei-kuo's name has a particular meaning as intended by his father. ''Wei'' literally means "parallel (of latitude)" while ''kuo'' means "nation"; in his brother's name, ''Ching'' literally means "longitude". The names are inspired by the references in Chinese classics such as the '' Guoyu'', in which "to draw the longitudes and latitudes of the world" is used as a metaphor for a person with great abilities, especially in managing a country. Born in
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when Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT were exiled to
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by the
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, Chiang Wei-kuo was the biological son of Tai Chi-tao and a Japanese woman, .2009-08-02, 人民網
蔣介石、宋美齡的感情危機與蔣緯國的身世之謎
, 新華網(港澳臺)
Chiang Wei-kuo previously discredited any such claims and insisted he was a biological son of Chiang Kai-shek until his later years (1988), when he admitted that he was adopted. According to reliable rumors, Tai believed knowledge of his Japanese tryst would destroy his marriage and his career, so he entrusted Wei-kuo to Chiang Kai-shek, after brought the infant to
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. Yao Yecheng (), a concubine of Chiang Kai-shek at the time, raised Wei-kuo as his foster mother. The boy called Tai his "Dear Uncle" (). Chiang moved to the Chiang ancestral home in Xikou Town of
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in 1920. Wei-kuo later studied Physics at Soochow University.


In the Wehrmacht

With his sibling Chiang Ching-kuo being held as a virtual political hostage in the
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having previously been a student studying in
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, Chiang sent Wei-kuo to
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for a military education at the Kriegsschule in
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. Here, he would learn the most up to date German military tactical doctrines, organization, and use of weaponry on the modern battlefield such as the German-inspired theory of the Maschinengewehr (Medium machine gun, at this time, the
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) led squad, incorporation of Air and Armored branches into infantry attack, etc. After completing this training, Wei-kuo completed specialized Alpine warfare training, thus earning him the coveted
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sleeve insignia. Wei-kuo was promoted to
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, or Officer Candidate, and received a Schützenschnur lanyard. Wei-kuo commanded a
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unit during the 1938
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n
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as a Fähnrich, or sergeant officer-candidate, leading a tank into that country; subsequently, he was promoted to
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of a Panzer unit awaiting to be sent into
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. Before he was given the mobilization order, he was recalled to China to assist the war effort against the invading Japanese forces.


Service during the Second Sino-Japanese War

Upon being recalled from Germany, Chiang Wei-kuo visited the United States as a distinguished guest of the US Army on behalf of his father and the Kuomintang. While in the United States, he gave lectures detailing on German army organizations and tactics. During the war, Chiang Wei-kuo became acquainted with generals in Northwestern China and organized an armour mechanized battalion to formally take part in the
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. Chiang Wei-kuo was stationed at a garrison in
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in 1941. In addition, he spent some time in India studying tanks at the U.S. Armored School in 1943. Wei-kuo would become a
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at 28, a
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at 29, a
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at 32 whilst in charge of a tank battalion, and later in Taiwan, a
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.


Service during the Chinese Civil War

During the Chinese Civil War, Chiang Wei-kuo employed tactics he had learned whilst studying in the German Wehrmacht. He was in charge of a
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tank battalion during the Huaihai Campaign against Mao Zedong's troops, scoring some early victories. While it was not enough to win the campaign, he was able to pull back without significant problems. Like many troops and refugees of the Kuomintang, he retreated from Shanghai to Taiwan and moved his tank regiment to
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, becoming a divisional strength regiment commander of the armoured corps stationed outside of Taipei.


Taiwan

Chiang Wei-kuo continued to hold senior positions in the
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following the ROC retreat to Taiwan. In 1964, following the Hukou Incident and his subordinate Chao Chih-hwa's attempted
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, Chiang Wei-kuo was in the penalty box and never held any authority in the military. From 1964 onwards, Chiang Wei-kuo made preparations in establishing a school dedicated to teaching warfare strategy; such a school was established in 1969. In 1975, Chiang Wei-kuo was further promoted to the position of general, and served as president of the Armed Forces University. In 1980, Chiang served as joint logistics commander in chief; then in 1986, he retired from the army and became National Security Council Secretary-General. After Chiang Ching-kuo's death, Chiang Wei-kuo was a political rival of native Taiwanese
Lee Teng-hui Lee Teng-hui (; 15 January 192330 July 2020) was a Taiwanese statesman and economist who served as president of the Republic of China (Taiwan), President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) under Constitution of the Republic of China, the 1947 C ...
, and he strongly opposed Lee's
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. Chiang ran as vice-president with Taiwan Governor
Lin Yang-kang Lin Yang-kang ( ; 10 June 1927 – 13 April 2013) was a Taiwanese politician. He was born at Sun Moon Lake during the Japanese rule of Taiwan. Some thought he might be Chiang Ching-kuo's successor as head of the Kuomintang (KMT), but after fai ...
in the 1990 ROC indirect presidential election. Lee ran as the KMT presidential candidate and defeated the Lin-Chiang ticket.


Personal life

In 1944, he married Shih Chin-i (), the daughter of Shih Feng-hsiang (), a textile tycoon from North West China. Shih died in 1953 during childbirth. Wei-kuo later established the Chingshin Elementary School () in Taipei to commemorate his late wife. In 1957, Chiang remarried, to Ellen Chiu Ru-hsüeh (), also known as Chiu Ai-lun (), a daughter of Chinese and
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parents. Chiu gave birth to Chiang's only son, Chiang Hsiao-kang, () in 1962. Chiang Hsiao-kang is the youngest of the Hsiao generation of the Chiang family. Chiang Wei-kuo was also quite active in civil society, where he was the founder of the Chinese Institute of Strategy and Sino-German Cultural and Economic Association, as well as the Chairman of the Republic of China Football Association. He was the first chairman of Chingshin Primary School () and served as the president of the United States Students Association of China. Chiang was a
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, and was the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of China from 1968 to 1969.


Final years

In the early 1990s, Chiang Wei-kuo established an unofficial Spirit Relocation Committee (奉安移靈小組) to petition the Communist government to allow his adopted father Chiang Kai-shek and brother Chiang Ching-kuo to be interred in
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. His request was largely ignored by both the Nationalist and Communist governments, and he was persuaded to abandon the petition by his father's widow
Soong Mei-ling Soong Mei-ling (also spelled Soong May-ling, ; March 5, 1898 – October 23, 2003), also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang, was a Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China, the wife of Generalissimo a ...
in November 1996. In 1991, Chiang's housemaid, Li Hung-mei (, or ) was found dead in Chiang's estate in the
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. The following police investigation discovered a stockpile of sixty guns on Chiang's estate. Chiang himself admitted the possibility of a link between the guns and his maid's death, which was later ruled a suicide by the police. The incident permanently tarnished Chiang Wei-kuo's name, at a time when the Chiang family was increasingly unpopular on Taiwan and even within the Nationalist Party. In 1993, Chiang Wei-kuo was employed as a senior advisor to President Lee Teng-hui despite their previous political rivalry. In 1994, a hospital was supposed to be named after him () in Sanchih,
Taipei County New Taipei City is a special municipality located in northern Taiwan. The city is home to an estimated population of 3,974,683 as of 2022, making it the most populous city of Taiwan, and also the second largest special municipality by area, b ...
(now New Taipei City), after an unnamed politician donated to Ruentex Financial Group (潤泰企業集團), whose founder was from Sanchih. Politicians questioned the motivation. In 1996, the Chiang home on military land was finally demolished by the order of the Taipei municipal government under
Chen Shui-bian Chen Shui-bian (; born 12 October 1950) is a retired Taiwanese politician and lawyer who served as the president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008. Chen was the first president from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) whic ...
. The estate had been constructed in 1971. After Chiang moved elsewhere in 1981, he deeded it to his son. The justification was that his son was not in military service and thus was not entitled to live there.2005-04-20
蔣緯國批評“台獨”的親筆信在重慶露面(組圖)
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Chiang Wei-kuo died at the age of 80, on 22 September 1997, from kidney failure. He had been experiencing falling blood pressure complicated by diabetes after a 10-month stay at
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,
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. He had wished to be buried in
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on the mainland but was instead buried at
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.


Political and military career

His positions in the
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government included: * Commander of the Army Armored Forces () * Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Services Force () * President of the Army Command and Staff College () * President of the Tri-service University () *
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of the Office of the President () * Secretary-General of the
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() Full list of military, and civil government positions held: *National Revolutionary Army officer Lieutenant attendant (1936) *German Seventh Army trainee (In November 1936 -1937) *German Army Mountain Division soldiers, 98th Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 5th Company (November 1937 – 1938) *German Army Mountain Division soldiers eighth lieutenant (1938–1939) *NRA First Division Army 3rd Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 5th Company platoon leader (1941) *NRA First Division Army 3rd Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 5th Company Commander (1941) *NRA First Division Army 3rd Regiment, 2nd Battalion deputy battalion commander (1942–1944) *NRA First Division Army 3rd Regiment, 2nd Battalion battalion commander (1944–1945) *Youth Expedition 206 Division, 616 Battalion, 2nd Regiment (1945) *Third Department of the Army armored corps training Director (1945) *Army Corps armored fighting vehicles training, fourth regiment group leader (1945–1946) *Army Corps armored fighting vehicles training, first regiment group leader (1946–1947) *Army Corps armored fighting vehicles training, first regiment commander (1947-?) * Nanjing Private Secondary School in Yining founder (1948) *Armored Force Command Chief of Staff (1948–1949) *Armored Force Command deputy commander (1949 – 1 March 1950) *Armored brigade (1st term) Brigadier (1 March 1950 – 1 June 1953) *Yi Ning, chairman of private secondary school, Taichung City (November 1951 – June 1953) *Jingxin Primary School chairman (1956–1968) *Fifth Department of Defense Director of the Office (1958–unknown) *Armored Force Command (4th term) Commander (1 August 1958 – 1 August 1963) *Department of Defense senior staff *Defense Planning Committee, deputy director of joint operations *Dean of the Army Command and Staff College (1 September 1963 – 1 September 1968) *Sino-German Cultural and Economic Association (1963–1986) *Armed Forces University Vice-Chancellor (1968 – 16 August 1975) *Armed Forces War College University of Institutionalized Persons (1 December 1969) *Armed Forces University, Dean of war (1 December 1969 – 7 April 1980) *Armed Forces University President (16 August 1975 – 7 April 1980) *Central Consultative Committee of the Kuomintang (1976–unknown) *Founder of the Chinese Institute of Strategy (1979) *Taipei Football Association (29 April 1980 – 25 March 1982) *Chief of the General Command of the Joint Duty (7 April 1980 – July 1984) *Meihua Sports Promotion Campaign Committee vice chairman (1980 – 22 September 1997) *Joint Operations Training Officer (1 July 1984 – 18 June 1986) *National Security Council Secretary-General (18 June 1986 – 28 February 1993) *Bureau of the Kuomintang Chairman of the Central Consultative Committee (1988–unknown) *Chairman of the Chinese Institute of Strategy (1990–unknown) *National Unity Committee *Presidential advisor (28 February 1993 – 22 September 1997) *Rotary Club of Taipei


Education history

* Department of Physics, Soochow University * Tenth
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* Munich Military Academy (1938) *
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(1940) * U.S. Armored School in India (1943) * Round Mountain Academy advanced officer corps training (1951), *
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Command and Staff College formal training classes (1953) * School of Social Practice Class III combat training (1955) * Practical Advanced Military Studies Research Society training classes (1963)


Written works

*''Grand Strategy Summary'' *''A Summary of National Strategy'' *''The strategic value of Taiwan in the world'' (1977) *''The Middle Way and Life'' (1979) *''Soft military offensive'' *''The basic principles of the military system'' (1974) *''The Z that creates this age''


Gallery

File:Former Residence of Jiang Weiguo in Nanjing 01 2012-11.JPG, Former residence of Chiang Wei-kuo in
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File:Chiang Wei-kuo Nazi 2.jpg, Chiang Wei-Kuo as an officer candidate in the German Army, 1938 File:Chiang Wei-kuo wehrmacht LQ.jpg, Chiang Wei-kuo as a ''Fanhnenjunker'' (cadet) in the
Wehrmacht The ''Wehrmacht'' (, ) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the ''Heer'' (army), the '' Kriegsmarine'' (navy) and the ''Luftwaffe'' (air force). The designation "''Wehrmacht''" replaced the previo ...
prior to 1939 File:Chiang Weikuo in Kriegsschule(Wehrmacht).png, Chiang Wei-kuo in Germany with other Wehrmacht officer candidates, prior to 1939 File:Chiang Wei-kuo NRA.jpg, Chiang Wei-kuo in German Army mountain troop (''Gebirgsjager'') field attire with the characteristic 'Bergmutze' field cap File:Chiang Wei-kuo 1941.jpg, Chiang Wei-kuo in the
National Revolutionary Army The National Revolutionary Army (NRA; ), sometimes shortened to Revolutionary Army () before 1928, and as National Army () after 1928, was the military arm of the Kuomintang (KMT, or the Chinese Nationalist Party) from 1925 until 1947 in China ...
in 1941, as a second lieutenant stationed in
Xi'an Xi'an ( , ; ; Chinese: ), frequently spelled as Xian and also known by other names, is the capital of Shaanxi Province. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong Plain, the city is the third most populous city in Western China, after Chongqi ...
File:Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Wei-kuo.jpg, Chiang Wei-kuo (right), with father Chiang Kai-shek (left), 1941 File:Chiang Kai-shek with two sons.jpg, Chiang Kai-shek (front) with his sons
Chiang Ching-kuo Chiang Ching-kuo (27 April 1910 – 13 January 1988) was a politician of the Republic of China after its retreat to Taiwan. The eldest and only biological son of former president Chiang Kai-shek, he held numerous posts in the government ...
(rear, left) and Chiang Wei-kuo (rear, right)


References


Citations


Sources

* Wang Shichun (), (1996). ''Travelling alone for a thousand mountains: The Life of Chiang Wei-kuo'' (), Tianxia Publishing, Taiwan. * Zhou Shao (). ''The trifles of Chiang Wei-kuo's youth'' (), within the volume "Huanghun Xiaopin" (), Shanghai Guji Publishing House (), Shanghai, 1995. * Kwan Kwok Huen (). Biography of Chiang Wei-kuo (). ''Biography Literature'' (), ''78'', 4.


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See also

* Sino-German cooperation *
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