Madame
Đoàn Thị Giàu
Giàu, c. 1954
Spouse of the President of North Vietnam
In role
2 September 1969 – 25 May 1974†
PresidentTôn Đức Thắng
Succeeded byDương Thị Chung (1980)
Personal details
Born1898 (1898)
Vĩnh Kim village, Châu Thành district, Tiền Giang province, French Cochinchina
Died1974 (aged 75–76)
Hanoi, North Vietnam
SpouseTôn Đức Thắng
Children3

Đoàn Thị Giàu (1898 – 1974) was a Vietnamese teacher and revolutionary. As the spouse of Vietnamese president Tôn Đức Thắng, she served as the de facto First Lady of North Vietnam from 1969 until her death in 1974, one year before the country was unified.[1]

Biography

Early life

Giàu was born in 1898 at Vĩnh Kim village, Châu Thành district, Tiền Giang province of then-French Cochinchina (southern Vietnam).[2][3] She married Thắng in 1921 but the pair was separated for almost 30 years due to the Indochina Wars. They had three children (2 daughter and 1 son), which Giàu raised all by herself. Their son died during a famine at the age of 3.[4]

She is believed to have influenced Thắng's decision to join the Indochinese Communist Party, the predecessor of the Communist Party of Vietnam.[2]

Spouse of the President

In 1954, following the Geneva Conference, Giàu relocated to North Vietnam and reunited with her husband. When Tôn Đức Thắng became President of Vietnam in 1969, Giàu was the de facto First Lady of North Vietnam until her death in 1974. She was believed to have maintained an austere lifestyle.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Đoàn Thị Giàu - "Đệ nhất phu nhân" giản dị nhất" [Đoàn Thị Giàu - the most austere 'First Lady']. Tạp chí Điện tử Văn hoá và Phát triển (in Vietnamese). 2021-09-24. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  2. 1 2 Lê, Hồng (2017-09-03). "Báo Ấp Bắc điện tử" [The loyal, resilient wife of the late President Tôn Đức Thắng]. Báo Ấp Bắc. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  3. ↑ Sơn, Hoà. "Vùng đất sản sinh hoàng hậu, đệ nhất phu nhân nổi tiếng trời Nam". VnExpress (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  4. ↑ "Cuộc đời và sự nghiệp Chủ Tịch tôn Đức Thắng" [The life and career of Tôn Đức Thắng]. Myaloha. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
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