Zhu De

**Zhu De** ( (also **Chu Teh**; 1 December 1886 – 6 July 1976) was a Chinese general, warlord, politician and revolutionary. He was one of the founders of the Communist Party of China. He was a high-ranking official of the Chinese Red Army.
He was Commander-in-Chief of the Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

In 1955 he became one of the Ten Marshals of the People's Liberation Army. He was the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1975 to 1976. Zhu was the head of state of the People's Republic of China.

Zhu died on 6 July 1976 in Beijing at the age of 89.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: Yuan shuai, Marshal
- **name**: Zhu De
- **image**: Zhu De.jpg
- **caption**: Marshal Zhu De (1955)
- **order**: 2nd Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Chairman of the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
- **president**: _Abolished_ (since 1975)
- **term start**: April 28, 1959
- **term end**: July 6, 1976
- **predecessor**: Liu Shaoqi
- **successor**: Soong Ching-ling <small>(acting)</small>
- **office1**: List of Presidents of the People's Republic of China, Head of State of the People's Republic of China
<small>as Chairman of the NPCSC</small>
- **term start1**: January 17, 1975
- **term end1**: July 6, 1976
- **leader1**: Mao Zedong
- **premier1**: Zhou Enlai
Hua Guofeng
- **predecessor1**: Dong Biwu <small>(as acting chairman of the PRC)</small>
- **successor1**: Soong Ching-ling <small>(acting)</small>
- **order2**: 1st List of Vice Presidents of the People's Republic of China, Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China
- **term start2**: September 27, 1954
- **term end2**: April 27, 1959
- **1blankname2**: Chairman
- **1namedata2**: Mao Zedong
- **successor2**: Soong Ching-ling and Dong Biwu
- **order3**: Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China
- **term start3**: 28 September 1956
- **term end3**: 1 August 1966
- **1blankname3**: Chairman
- **1namedata3**: Mao Zedong
- **order4**: Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
- **term start4**: November, 1949
- **term end4**: March, 1955
- **predecessor4**: Li Weihan
- **successor4**: Dong Biwu
- **order5**: Commander-in-Chief of the People's Liberation Army
- **term start5**: November 28, 1946
- **term end5**: September 27, 1954
- **predecessor5**: _Post established_
- **successor5**: _Post abolished_
- **birth place**: Yilong County, Sichuan
- **death place**: Beijing
- **death cause**: Flu
- **party**: Communist Party of China
- **spouse**:

- **children**: Zhu Qi
Zhu Min
- **awards**:  China War Memorial Medal, Order of Victory of Resistance against Aggression (1945)
 Order of Bayi, Order of August the First (1st Class Medal) (1955)
 Order of Independence and Freedom (1st Class Medal) (1955)
 Order of Liberation (1st Class Medal) (1955)
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- **allegiance**: Communist Party of China

- **branch**:  People's Liberation Army
 Eighth Route Army
 Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
 National Revolutionary Army
 Yunnan clique
- **serviceyears**: 1927–1976
- **rank**:  Marshal of the People's Republic of China
 General of the National Revolutionary Army, Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China
- **battles**: Northern Expedition

Chinese Civil War
: Encirclement Campaigns
: Long March
Second Sino-Japanese War
: Hundred Regiments Offensive