Minister of Defence (Vietnam)
The following is a list of Ministers of Defence of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Officeholders
| No. [note 1] |
Rank [note 2] |
Name (birth–death) |
Portrait | Took office | Left office | Prime Minister |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minister of Defence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945–76) | ||||||
| 1 | — |
Chu Văn Tấn (1909–84) |
 |
8 May 1945 | March 1946 | Ho Chi Minh |
| 2 | — |
Phan Anh (1912–90) |
— |
March 1946 | 11 May 1946 | |
| 3 | — |
Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911–2013) |
11 May 1946 | 8 May 1947 | ||
| 4 | — |
Ta Quang Buu (1910–86) |
 |
8 May 1947 | 8 May 1948 | |
| 5 | 5 | Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911–2013) |
8 May 1948 | 2 July 1976 | Ho Chi Minh | |
| Phạm Văn Đồng | ||||||
| 7 | ||||||
| Minister of Defence of the Republic of South Vietnam (1969–76) | ||||||
| — |
— |
Tran Nam Trung (1912–2009) |
— |
8 June 1969 | 2 July 1976 | Huỳnh Tấn Phát |
| Minister of Defence of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (1976–present) | ||||||
| 5 | 4 | Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911–2013) |
2 July 1976 | February 1980 | Phạm Văn Đồng | |
| 6 | 6 | Văn Tiến Dũng (1917–2002) |
 |
February 1980 | February 1987 | |
| — | ||||||
| 7 | 6 | Lê Đức Anh (born 1920) |
 |
February 1987 | August 1991 | Phạm Văn Đồng |
| Phạm Hùng | ||||||
| Đỗ Mười | ||||||
| 8 | 5 | Đoàn Khuê (1923–99) |
August 1991 | 29 December 1997 | Đỗ Mười | |
| Võ Văn Kiệt | ||||||
| 6 | ||||||
| 9 | 5 | Phạm Văn Trà (born 1935) |
 |
29 December 1997 | 28 June 2006 | Phan Văn Khải |
| 11 | ||||||
| 10 | 8 | Phùng Quang Thanh (born 1949) |
 |
28 June 2006 | 8 April 2016 | Nguyễn Tấn Dũng |
| 2 | ||||||
| 11 | — |
Ngô Xuân Lịch (born 1954) |
 |
9 April 2016 | Incumbent | Nguyễn Xuân Phúc |
| 6 | ||||||
See also
Notes
- ↑ These numbers are not official.
- ↑ The Central Committee when it convenes for its first session after being elected by a National Party Congress elects the Politburo. The Politburo members are ranked in an official order of precedence every time the body is elected by the Central Committee.[1]
References
- ↑ Van & Cooper 1983, p. 69.
Bibliography
- Van, Canh Nguyen; Cooper, Earle (1983). Vietnam under Communism, 1975–1982. Hoover Press. ISBN 9780817978518.
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