Ding Jianxiu

Thing Jianxiu (Chinese丁 鉴 修/丁 鉴 修, Pinyin thing Jianxiu; * 1886 in Gaizhou, Liaoning Province, Imperial China, † 1944 in Changchun, Manchuria ) was a politician in the Republic of China, and later the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, where he served in various cabinet positions.

Life

A native of Gaizhou in northeastern China Ding graduated from an education at the Faculty of Economics at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. After his return to China, he finished among others, a study of the law.

After his studies he worked as a teacher in various educational institutions in Mukden, including the local Education College, the School Center as well as the military and police academy. From 1913 he worked as a professor at the Language Faculty of the University Mukden. Subsequently he entered the service of the local administration, where he. Various posts in the Provincial Administration of the Fengtian and the director of a Sino -Japanese joint venture, which should open up local iron ore deposits

After the assassination of the leader of the so-called Fengtian clique, Zhang Zuo-lin, Ding began to commit themselves to the goal of independence of Manchuria by the Republic of China. After the Mukden Incident in September 1931 and the subsequent Japanese occupation of Manchuria, he received from the Japanese Kwantung Army established a post on the Selbstvrwaltungskomitee for the province of Fengtian.

After the proclamation of the state of Manchukuo in the Japanese-occupied territory thing from March 1932 to March 1934 served as director of the traffic department and thereafter until March 1935 as Minister in the Ministry of Transport resulting therefrom. From May 1935 he was given a job as a corporate Minister before in May 1937 he retired from the public service. In May 1940, Ding was appointed to the Privy Council and helped with the preparations for the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the declaration of independence of Manchukuo in March 1941. In December he was appointed to a committee, which oversaw the construction of the Manchurian National shrine. Thing died after an illness in 1944 at the age of 58 years.