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Gu Zhutong
顧祝同
General Gu Zhutong
2nd Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of China Armed Forces
In office
13 May 1948 – 24 March 1950
PresidentLi Zongren
Chiang Kai-shek
Preceded byChen Cheng
Succeeded byChou Chi-jo
1st & 4th & 6th Commander-in-Chief of the Republic of China Army
In office
1 June 1946 – 13 May 1948
PresidentChiang Kai-shek
Preceded byHe Yingqin (as Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Ground Force of China Theater of the Allies of World War 2)
Succeeded byYu Hanmou
In office
26 June 1949 – 25 August 1949
PresidentLi Zongren
Preceded byZhang Fakui
Succeeded byGuan Linzheng
In office
December 1949 – March 1950
PresidentLi Zongren
Chiang Kai-shek
Preceded byGuan Linzheng
Succeeded bySun Li-jen
Personal details
Born9 January 1893
Lianshui County, Jiangsu, Qing dynasty, China
Died17 January 1987(1987-01-17) (aged 94)
Taipei, Taiwan
AwardsOrder of Blue Sky and White Sun
Military service
Allegiance Republic of China
Years of service1912-1987
Rank General
Unitvarious
Commandscommander-in-chief of the nationalist ground force , chief of the general staff, commander-in of the third war zone
Battles/warsNorthern Expedition, Central Plains War, Encirclement Campaigns, 1939 Winter Offensive, New Fourth Army Incident, Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign, Menglianggu Campaign
In this Chinese name, the family name is Gu.

Gu Zhutong (simplified Chinese: 顾祝同; traditional Chinese: 顧祝同; pinyin: Gù Zhùtòng; 1893 – January 17, 1987), courtesy name Moshan (墨山), was a military general and administrator of the Republic of China.

Biography

Former residence of Gu Zhutong in Nanjing.

Early life and career

Gu was born in Lianshui, Jiangsu province and attended army elementary academy at age 19, When the Chinese Revolution of 1911 broke out, he soon joined the Revolution. In 1912, he joined the Chinese Nationalist Party, and enrolled in Wuhan reserve officer candidate school, and then attend the Baoding Military Academy. In 1922, he went to Canton and became a staff officer of Second Cantonese Army. When Whampoa Military Academy was founded in 1924, he became one of the academy instructors. When the newly formed nationalist government launched a campaign against a local warlord, he became a battalion commander. During the Northern Expedition, Gu was promoted division commander and then corps commander. In the Central Plains War, he was the commander of the 16th route army. In 1931, he became garrison commander of Nanjing, the capital of the nationalist government. In 1933 he participated the anti-communist Encirclement Campaigns. In 1935 he was promoted to general and put in charge of three southwestern provinces, meanwhile he was also the chairman of Jiangsu province. After the breakout of the second Sino-Japanese war, he was named commander-in-chief of the third war zone, during the New Fourth Army Incident in 1941 nationalist units under his command destroyed a large contingent of communist troops, and Chiang Kai-shek decorated him with the Order of Blue Sky and White Sun, one of the highest honors for a Chinese commander at the time.

Chinese Civil War

In 1946, he was named commander-in-chief of the nationalist army and pacification director of Zhengzhou, and was put in charge attack communist-controlled areas in Shandong province. In 1947, he lost the critical Menglianggu Campaign, in which the elite 74th independent enhanced division was wiped out by the communist forces. Chiang Kai-shek relieved him of command, and appointed him as Chief of Staff instead.

In Taiwan

In March 1950, he arrived in Taiwan and was appointed as defense minister, and in 1954 he was promoted to four-star general. In 1956, Gu was appointed as secretary general of the National Defense Council; in 1967 he was named as deputy head of the strategic advisory committee. In 1972, he became an advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and died on January 17, 1987.

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Preceded by Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of China Armed Forces
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