Song Jiaoren

Song Jiaoren (Chinese宋教仁, Pinyin Song Jiaoren, W.-G. Sung Chiao -jen, maiden name Lian (链), courtesy name Dùnchū (钝 初), born April 5, 1882 Hunan Province, † March 22, 1913 in Shanghai) was a Chinese revolutionary and politician, and co-founder of Tongmenghui and the Guomindang, the first of which he was president. He died in 1913 at the consequences of an attack.

On August 20, 1905, he founded in Tokyo in conjunction with Sun Yat-sen, the aiming at the abolition of the Qing Dynasty and the establishment of a republic Tongmenghui Association (Revolutionary Chinese Alliance). After the proclamation of the Republic of China by Sun Yat-sen (1 January 1912) led song in August by the conversion of Tongmenghui in the Zhongguo Guomindang (Chinese Nationalist Party ). In the elections to the first Chinese National Assembly in February 1913, he led them to victory and thus was the favorite for the post of Prime Minister. Before it happened, he was shot at the station of Shanghai on 20 March 1913 by an assassin and died two days later from his injuries. Behind the attack probably was the then provisional President of the Republic of Yuan Shikai, who exercised a presidential dictatorship in the sequence and later rose to the emperor.