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((Short description|Adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek (1916–1997)))

((family name hatnote|[[Jiang (surname)|Chiang (蔣)]]|lang=Chinese))

((refimprove|date=December 2019))

((Infobox Officeholder
| name                = Chiang Wei-kuo
| native_name         = ((nobold|蔣緯國))
| native_name_lang    = zh-hant
| image               = Army (ROCA) General Chiang Wei-kuo 陸軍上將蔣緯國.jpg
| image_size          = 200px
| caption             = Chiang Wei-kuo as a general of the [[Republic of China Army]], 1980s
| office1             = 4th Secretary-General of the [[National Security Council (Republic of China)|National Security Council]] of the [[Republic of China]]
| term_start1         = 18 June 1986
| term_end1           = 28 February 1993
| president1          = [[Chiang Ching-kuo]]<br>[[Lee Tung-hui]]
| predecessor1        = Wang Tao-yuan
| successor1          = [[Shih Chi-yang]]
| office2             = 12th Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Services Force of the [[Republic of China]]
| president2          = [[Chiang Ching-kuo]]
| term_start2         = 7 April 1980
| term_end2           = 30 June 1984
| predecessor2        = Wang To-nien
| successor2          = Wen Ha-hsiung
| office3             = 2nd President of the [[National Defense University (Republic of China)|Tri-service University]]
| president3          = [[Yen Chia-kan]]<br>[[Chiang Ching-kuo]]
| term_start3         = 16 August 1975
| term_end3           = 6 June 1980
| predecessor3        = Yu Po-chuan
| successor3          = Wang To-nien
| office4             = 3rd President of the [[Republic of China Army]] Command and Staff University
| president4          = [[Chiang Kai-shek]]
| term_start4         = 1 September 1963
| term_end4           = 31 August 1968
| predecessor4        = Wu Wen-chi
| successor4          = Lu Fu-ning
| birth_date          = ((Birth date|df=y|1916|10|6))
| birth_place         = [[Tokyo]], [[Empire of Japan]]
| death_date          = ((Death date and age|df=y|1997|9|22|1916|10|6))
| death_place         = [[Taipei Veterans General Hospital]], [[Taipei]], [[Taiwan]]
| resting_place       = [[Wuzhi Mountain Military Cemetery]]
| party               = [[Kuomintang]]
| spouse              = ((plainlist|
* ((marriage|Shih Chin-i|1944|1953|end=died))
* ((marriage|Ellen Chiu|1957|1997))
))
| partner             = <!--For those with a domestic partner and not married-->
| relations           = [[Chiang Kai-shek]] (adoptive father) <br> [[Yao Yecheng]] (adoptive mother)
| children            = Chiang Hsiao-kang (son)
| mother              = Shigematsu Kaneko
| father              = [[Tai Chi-tao]]
| relatives           = 
| residence           = 
| education           = 
| alma_mater          = [[Soochow University (Suzhou)|Soochow University]]<br>[[Central Military Academy]]<br>[[Munich]] ''[[Kriegsschule (Wehrmacht)|Kriegsschule]]''<br>[[National Defense University (Republic of China)|Command and Staff College]]
| occupation          = 
| profession          = 
| allegiance          = ((flag|Nazi Germany)) (1936–1939)<br>((nowrap|((Flag|Republic of China (1912–1949)|name=Republic of China)))) (1936, 1939–1997)
| branch              = ((army|Nazi Germany)) ([[Wehrmacht]])<br>((army|Republic of China (1912–1949)|name=National Revolutionary Army))<br>((army|Republic of China))
| serviceyears        = 1936–1997
| rank                = [[Leutnant]] (Germany)<br>[[General]] (Republic of China)
| commands            = Commander-in-Chief of Armoured Forces
| unit                = [[1st Mountain Division (Wehrmacht)|98. Mountain Infantry Regiment]]<br>[[8th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht)|8. Infantry Division]]<br>First Infantry Division (China)<br>First Armoured Regiment
| battles             = ''[[Anschluss]]''<br>[[Munich Agreement|Annexation of the Sudetenland]]<br>[[Second Sino-Japanese War]]<br>[[Chinese Civil War]]
| awards              = [[Order of Blue Sky and White Sun]]
| other work          = Politician
| module              = ((Infobox Chinese
| child               = yes
| s                   = 蒋纬国
| t                   = 蔣緯國
| p                   = Jiǎng Wěiguó
| w                   = ((Tone superscript|Chiang3 Wei3-kuo2))
))
))

'''Chiang Wei-kuo''' (((zh|t=蔣緯國)); 6 October 1916 – 22 September 1997), also known as '''Wego Chiang''', was the adopted son of [[Taiwan|Republic of China]] [[President of the Republic of China|President]] [[Chiang Kai-shek]], the adoptive brother of President [[Chiang Ching-kuo]], a retired [[Republic of China Army|Army]] [[general]], and an important figure in the [[Kuomintang]]. His [[courtesy name]]s were '''Jian'gao''' (((lang|zh-hant|建鎬))) and '''Niantang''' (((lang|zh-hant|念堂))). Chiang served in the [[Wehrmacht]] before fighting in the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] and [[Chinese Civil War]].

==Early life==
[[File:Chiang Wei-kuo age 8 with father.jpg|left|thumb|upright|Chiang Wei-kuo (right), age 8, with father Chiang Kai-shek (left)]]

As one of two sons of Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Wei-kuo's name has a particular meaning as intended by his father. ''Wei'' literally means "parallel (of latitude)" while ''kuo'' means "nation"; in his brother's name, ''Ching'' literally means "longitude". The names are inspired by the references in Chinese classics such as the ''[[Guoyu (book)|Guoyu]]'', in which "to draw the longitudes and latitudes of the world" is used as a metaphor for a person with great abilities, especially in managing a country.

Born in [[Tokyo]] when Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT were exiled to [[Japan]] by the [[Beiyang Government]], Chiang Wei-kuo was the biological son of [[Tai Chi-tao]] and a Japanese woman, ((nihongo|Shigematsu Kaneko|重松金子)).<ref name=xhbig5>2009-08-02, 人民網, [http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-08/02/content_11811296_4.htm 蔣介石、宋美齡的感情危機與蔣緯國的身世之謎] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404031402/http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-08/02/content_11811296_4.htm |date=2012-04-04 )), 新華網(港澳臺)</ref><ref>[http://big5.ifeng.com/gate/big5/book.ifeng.com/lianzai/detail_2010_08/17/1969064_15.shtml 蔣緯國的親媽——重松金子] ((webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720015002/http://big5.ifeng.com/gate/big5/book.ifeng.com/lianzai/detail_2010_08/17/1969064_15.shtml |date=July 20, 2011 )), 鳳凰網</ref><ref>((Cite web|author=寇維勇|date=1989-01-12|title=戴季陶之子？蔣緯國是坦然談身世|url=http://mag.udn.com/mag/people/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=392445|publisher=聯合 報|language=zh))</ref><ref>((Cite web|author=李玉玲|date=1995-01-02|title=李敖：據蔣介石日記考證 蔣緯國不是蔣公之子|url=http://mag.udn.com/mag/people/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=392443|publisher=聯合報|language=zh))</ref> Chiang Wei-kuo previously discredited any such claims and insisted he was a biological son of Chiang Kai-shek until his later years (1988), when he admitted that he was adopted.<ref>Sep 23, 1997, [http://www.chinainformed.com/Archive/x9709/970923.html Last son of Chiang Kai-shek dies], China Informed</ref>

According to reliable rumors, Tai believed knowledge of his Japanese tryst would destroy his marriage and his career, so he entrusted Wei-kuo to Chiang Kai-shek, after ((nihongo|Yamada Juntarō|山田純太郎)) brought the infant to [[Shanghai]].<ref name=xhbig5/> [[Yao Yecheng]], a concubine of Chiang Kai-shek at the time, raised Wei-kuo as his foster mother.<ref>((Cite web|author=楊湘鈞|date=2012-05-29|title=蔣緯國生父是誰？ 戴傳賢銅像勾起大公案|url=http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT1/7123058.shtml|publisher=聯合報|language=zh))</ref> The boy called Tai his "Dear Uncle" (((lang|zh-hant|親伯))).

Chiang moved to the Chiang ancestral home in Xikou Town of [[Fenghua]] in 1920.<ref>((Cite book|last=Taylor|first=Jay|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/252922333|title=The generalissimo : Chiang Kai-shek and the struggle for modern China|date=2009|publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-03338-2|location=Cambridge, Mass.|oclc=252922333))</ref> Wei-kuo later studied [[physics]] at [[Soochow University (Suzhou)|Soochow University]].

==In the Wehrmacht==
[[File:Chiang Wei-kuo Nazi 1.jpg|left|thumb|upright|Chiang as a [[Wehrmacht]] officer candidate (''Fahnenjunker''), c.1938]]

His sibling, [[Chiang Ching-kuo]], a student-turned-political-prisoner in [[Joseph Stalin|Joseph Stalin's]] [[Soviet Union|Soviet Union]], served as the impetus behind Chiang's sending Wei-kuo to [[Nazi Germany]] for a military education at the [[Kriegsschule (Wehrmacht)|Kriegsschule]] in [[Munich]].

At the Kriegsschule, he studied the German army's advanced methods, structure, and weaponry. He was specifically drawn by the then-theoretical machine gun company, which would use the ''Maschinengewehr'' (i.e., a medium machine gun) as the main weapon. The Maschinengewehr was the [[MG 34|MG 34]] then: a fast and reliable gun. The machine gun company would cooperate with air and armored units to assist the infantry's attack. This would be called the ''Bewegungskrieg'' ("War of Movement"), and it would be very effective in the future World War II. After completing this training, Wei-kuo completed specialized training in [[Mountain warfare|Alpine warfare]], thus earning him the coveted [[Gebirgsjäger]] [[Edelweiss]] sleeve insignia. Wei-kuo was promoted to [[Fahnenjunker]] ("Officer Candidate"), and received a [[German Armed Forces Badge of Marksmanship|Schützenschnur]] lanyard.

[[File:Chiang Wei-kuo in Germany with Wehrmacht officials.jpg|left|thumb|Chiang Wei-kuo with other Wehrmacht officers]]

Wei-kuo commanded a [[Panzer]] unit during the 1938 [[Austria]]n [[Anschluss]] as a [[Fähnrich]], or "sergeant officer-candidate",<ref>((cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FRY0v7AH2ngC&q=wego+ambassador+anschluss&pg=PA148|title=Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: China's Eternal First Lady|author=Laura Tyson Li|year=2007|edition=reprint, illustrated|publisher=Grove Press|page=148|isbn=978-0-8021-4322-8|access-date=2011-05-21))</ref> leading a tank into that country. Subsequently, he was promoted to [[Lieutenant]] of a Panzer unit and awaited the [[Invasion of Poland]]. Before he was given the mobilization order, he was recalled to China to assist the war effort against the invading Japanese forces.<ref>((Cite book|last=刘|first=凤翰|title=蒋纬国口述自传|publisher=[[中国大百科全书出版社]]|year=2008|isbn=9787500077886|location=Beijing|pages=64))</ref>

==Service during the Second Sino-Japanese War==
((expand section|date=May 2011))
Upon being recalled from Germany, Chiang Wei-kuo visited the United States as a distinguished guest of the US Army on behalf of his father and the Kuomintang. While in the United States, he gave lectures detailing on German army organizations and tactics. During the war, Chiang Wei-kuo became acquainted with generals in Northwestern China and organized an armour mechanized battalion to formally take part in the [[National Revolutionary Army]]. Chiang Wei-kuo was stationed at a garrison in [[Xi'an]] in 1941. In addition, he spent some time in Indiana studying tanks at the U.S. Armored School in 1943.((citation needed|date=February 2020)) Wei-kuo would become a [[Major (rank)|Major]] at 28, a [[Lieutenant Colonel]] at 29, a [[Colonel]] at 32 whilst in charge of a tank battalion, and later in Taiwan, a [[Major General]].

==Service during the Chinese Civil War==
((expand section|date=May 2011))
During the Chinese Civil War, Chiang Wei-kuo employed tactics he had learned whilst studying in the German Wehrmacht. He was in charge of a tank battalion of the 1st Tank Regiment (equipped with Soviet T-26 light tanks and Italian CV-33/35 tankettes)<ref>Weaponry in the Chinese Civil War https://thehistoryfiles.com/weaponry-in-the-chinese-civil-war/</ref> during the [[Huaihai Campaign]] against Mao Zedong's troops, scoring some early victories.<ref>Dr. Gary J. Bjorge, (2004). ''[http://cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil/carl/download/csipubs/bjorge_huai.pdf Moving the Enemy: Operational Art in the Chinese PLA’s Huai Hai Campaign] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326011824/http://cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil/carl/download/csipubs/bjorge_huai.pdf |date=2009-03-26 ))''. Leavenworth Paper, No.22. Combat Studies Institute Press, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.</ref> While it was not enough to win the campaign, he was able to pull back without significant problems. Like many troops and refugees of the Kuomintang, he retreated from Shanghai to Taiwan and moved his tank regiment to [[Taiwan]], becoming a divisional strength regiment commander of the armoured corps stationed outside of Taipei.

== Taiwan ==
[[File:Chiang Wei-kuo 1950.jpg|thumb|Chiang Wei-kuo in Taiwan, 1950]]

Chiang Wei-kuo continued to hold senior positions in the [[Republic of China Armed Forces]] following the ROC retreat to Taiwan. In 1964, following the [[Hukou Incident]] and his subordinate Chao Chih-hwa's attempted [[coup d'état]], Chiang Wei-kuo was in the penalty box and never held any authority in the military.<ref>((cite book |author = 薛化元 |script-title = zh:湖口兵變 |location = Taiwan |publisher = 國家文化資料庫 |access-date = 2011-01-22 |url = http://nrch.cca.gov.tw/ccahome/website/site20/PDFFiles/0891.pdf |language = zh-TW |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110723111900/http://nrch.cca.gov.tw/ccahome/website/site20/PDFFiles/0891.pdf |archive-date = 2011-07-23 ))</ref><ref>((cite news
 |author = NOWnews政治中心／綜合報導
 |url = http://www.nownews.com/2007/11/10/10844-2185201.htm
 |script-title = zh:將軍悲翻案／湖口兵變 蔣緯國受牽連被打入冷宮
 |publisher    = [[NOWnews]]
 |date         = 2007-11-10
 |access-date   = 2011-01-22
 |language = zh-TW
 |url-status  = dead
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120722052552/http://www.nownews.com/2007/11/10/10844-2185201.htm
 |archive-date  = 2012-07-22
))</ref><ref>((cite web |url = http://taiwanpedia.culture.tw/web/content?ID=5719 |script-title=zh:湖口兵變 |publisher=[[台灣大百科全書]] |access-date=2011-01-22 |language=zh-TW |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110726055658/http://taiwanpedia.culture.tw/web/content?ID=5719 |archive-date=2011-07-26 ))</ref>
[[File:Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery.jpg|thumb|Chiang Wei-kuo is buried in Wuzhi Mountain Military Cemetery in New Taipei City]]
From 1964 onwards, Chiang Wei-kuo made preparations in establishing a school dedicated to teaching warfare strategy; such a school was established in 1969. In 1975, Chiang Wei-kuo was further promoted to the position of general, and served as president of the Armed Forces University. In 1980, Chiang served as joint logistics commander in chief; then in 1986, he retired from the army and became National Security Council Secretary-General.

After Chiang Ching-kuo's death, Chiang Wei-kuo was a political rival of native Taiwanese [[Lee Teng-hui]], and he strongly opposed Lee's [[Taiwan localization movement]]. Chiang ran as vice-president with Taiwan Governor [[Lin Yang-kang]] in the [[:zh:1990年中華民國總統選舉|1990 ROC indirect presidential election]]. Lee ran as the KMT presidential candidate and defeated the Lin-Chiang ticket.<ref>張昆山, 1990/03/10, [http://issue.udn.com/FOCUSNEWS/LEE/b4.htm 林洋港：婉辭國代連署提名] ((webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726002058/http://issue.udn.com/FOCUSNEWS/LEE/b4.htm |date=July 26, 2011 )), 台北報導</ref><ref>2010-08-25, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120404031229/http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/tw/2010-08/25/c_12482093_4.htm 李登輝如何搞垮了國民黨], 新華網(港澳臺)</ref><ref>07/22/2003, [http://big5.huaxia.com/zk/jpwk/zplz/ldhzmm029.html 四、利用“三月政爭”打破聯合掌權] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927053022/http://big5.huaxia.com/zk/jpwk/zplz/ldhzmm029.html |date=2011-09-27 )), 華夏經緯網</ref><ref>[http://big5.ifeng.com/gate/big5/book.ifeng.com/lianzai/detail_2008_08/19/290410_40.shtml "總統"的弟弟] ((webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720014914/http://big5.ifeng.com/gate/big5/book.ifeng.com/lianzai/detail_2008_08/19/290410_40.shtml |date=July 20, 2011 )), 鳳凰網</ref>

==Personal life==
In 1944, he married Shih Chin-i (((lang|zh-hant|石靜宜))), the daughter of Shih Feng-hsiang (((lang|zh-hant|石鳳翔))), a textile tycoon from North West China. Shih died in 1953 during childbirth. Wei-kuo later established the Chingshin Elementary School (((lang|zh-hant|靜心小學))) in Taipei to commemorate his late wife.

In 1957, Chiang remarried, to Ellen Chiu Ju-hsüeh (((lang|zh-hant|丘如雪))), also known as Chiu Ai-lun (((lang|zh-hant|邱愛倫))), a daughter of Chinese and [[German people|German]] parents. Chiu gave birth to Chiang's only son, Chiang Hsiao-kang, (((lang|zh-hant|蔣孝剛))) in 1962. Chiang Hsiao-kang is the youngest of the [[generation name|Hsiao generation]] of the Chiang family.

Chiang Wei-kuo was also quite active in civil society, where he was the founder of the Chinese Institute of Strategy and Sino-German Cultural and Economic Association, as well as the Chairman of the Republic of China Football Association. He was the first chairman of Chingshin Primary School (((lang|zh-hant|靜心小學))) and served as the president of the United States Students Association of China.

Chiang was a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]], and was the [[Grand Master (Masonic)|Grand Master]] of the [[Grand Lodge of China]] from 1968 to 1969.<ref>((cite AV media |date=6 October 2011 |title=台灣美生會 蔣緯國曾任會長－民視新聞 |trans-title=Freemasonry in Taiwan: Chiang Wei-kuo was the Grand Master – FTV News |medium=FTV News |language=zh-TW |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZXMVVGf_oA  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/JZXMVVGf_oA| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|location=New Taipei City |access-date=25 November 2018))((cbignore))</ref>

== Final years ==
In the early 1990s, Chiang Wei-kuo established an unofficial Spirit Relocation Committee (奉安移靈小組) to petition the Communist government to allow his adopted father Chiang Kai-shek and brother Chiang Ching-kuo to be interred in [[mainland China]].<ref name=peoplebig5/> His request was largely ignored by both the Nationalist and Communist governments, and he was persuaded to abandon the petition by his father's widow [[Soong Mei-ling]] in November 1996.

In 1991, Chiang's housemaid, Li Hung-mei (((lang|zh-hant|李洪美)), or ((lang|zh-hant|李嫂))) was found dead in Chiang's estate in [[Taipei City]]. The following police investigation discovered a stockpile of sixty guns on Chiang's estate. Chiang himself admitted the possibility of a link between the guns and his maid's death, which was later ruled a suicide by the police.<ref name=peoplebig5>((Cite book | author = 王利南 | script-title = zh:蔣緯國的回歸夢(連載七) | publisher = 人民日報 | date = 2000 | url = http://www.people.com.cn/BIG5/paper81/1324/205784.html | language = zh | quote = 第二場風波是蔣緯國藏槍事件，1991年7月6日蔣緯國第二次競選失敗時，台中市警署公布了所謂蔣緯國家中藏有60只靶槍的事情，同時發生了蔣緯國家中一個叫李洪美的女佣神秘死去的案件。蔣緯國公開發表講話認為女佣人神秘死去可能和槍支告發者有關，可能受到威脅后自殺。其實這批靶槍放在家里已經20多年了，也早已成了廢鐵，他早就忘了。所謂李嫂告發事件，因為李嫂神秘死去無法對証，所以很可能是個設計好的陰謀。 | access-date = 2011-05-14 | archive-date = 2016-03-03 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212251/http://www.people.com.cn/BIG5/paper81/1324/205784.html | url-status = dead ))</ref> The incident permanently tarnished Chiang Wei-kuo's name, at a time when the Chiang family was increasingly unpopular on Taiwan and even within the Nationalist Party.

In 1993, Chiang Wei-kuo was employed as a senior advisor to President Lee Teng-hui despite their previous political rivalry.

In 1994, a hospital was supposed to be named after him (((lang|zh-hant|蔣緯國醫療中心))) in Sanchih, [[Taipei County]] (now New Taipei City), after an unnamed politician donated to Ruentex Financial Group (潤泰企業集團), whose founder was from Sanchih. Politicians questioned the motivation.<ref name=peoplebig5/>

In 1996, the Chiang home on military land was finally demolished by the order of the Taipei municipal government under [[Chen Shui-bian]]. The estate had been constructed in 1971. After Chiang moved elsewhere in 1981, he deeded it to his son. The justification was that his son was not in military service and thus was not entitled to live there.<ref>2005-04-20, [http://big5.cri.cn/gate/big5/gb.cri.cn/3821/2005/04/20/1385@521432.htm 蔣緯國批評“台獨”的親筆信在重慶露面(組圖)], 重慶晨報</ref>

Chiang Wei-kuo died at the age of 80, on 22 September 1997, from kidney failure.  He had been experiencing falling blood pressure complicated by diabetes after a 10-month stay at [[Taipei Veterans General Hospital]], [[Taipei]]. He had wished to be buried in [[Suzhou]] on the mainland but was instead buried at [[Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery]].

((Chiang family tree))

== Political and military career ==
His positions in the [[Republic of China]] government included:
*  Commander of the Army Armored Forces (((lang|zh-hant|陸軍裝甲兵司令)))
*  Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Services Force (((lang|zh-hant|聯勤總司令)))
*  President of the Army [[National Defense University (Republic of China)|Command and Staff College]] (((lang|zh-hant|陸軍指揮参謀大學校長)))
*  President of the [[National Defense University (Republic of China)|Tri-service University]] (((lang|zh-hant|三軍大學校長)))
*  [[Senior advisor#Taiwan|Senior advisor]] of the [[Office of the President of the Republic of China|Office of the President]] (((lang|zh-hant|中華民國總統府資政)))
*  Secretary-General of the [[National Security Council (Republic of China)|National Security Council]] (((lang|zh-hant|國安會議秘書長)))

Full list of military, and civil government positions held:
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*National Revolutionary Army officer Lieutenant attendant (1936)
*German Seventh Army trainee (In November 1936 -1937)
*German Army Mountain Division soldiers, 98th Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 5th Company (November 1937 – 1938)
*German Army Mountain Division soldiers eighth lieutenant (1938–1939)
*NRA First Division Army 3rd Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 5th Company platoon leader (1941)
*NRA First Division Army 3rd Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 5th Company Commander (1941)
*NRA First Division Army 3rd Regiment, 2nd Battalion deputy battalion commander (1942–1944)
*NRA First Division Army 3rd Regiment, 2nd Battalion battalion commander (1944–1945)
*Youth Expedition 206 Division, 616 Battalion, 2nd Regiment (1945)
*Third Department of the Army armored corps training Director (1945)
*Army Corps armored fighting vehicles training, fourth regiment group leader (1945–1946)
*Army Corps armored fighting vehicles training, first regiment group leader (1946–1947)
*Army Corps armored fighting vehicles training, first regiment commander (1947-?)
*[[:zh:宜寧中學|Nanjing Private Secondary School in Yining]] founder (1948)
*Armored Force Command Chief of Staff (1948–1949)
*Armored Force Command deputy commander (1949 – 1 March 1950)
*Armored brigade (1st term) Brigadier (1 March 1950 – 1 June 1953)
*Yi Ning, chairman of private secondary school, Taichung City (November 1951 – June 1953)
*Jingxin Primary School chairman (1956–1968)
*Fifth Department of Defense Director of the Office (1958–unknown)
*Armored Force Command (4th term) Commander (1 August 1958 – 1 August 1963)
*Department of Defense senior staff
*Defense Planning Committee, deputy director of joint operations
*Dean of the Army Command and Staff College (1 September 1963 – 1 September 1968)
*Sino-German Cultural and Economic Association (1963–1986)
*Armed Forces University Vice-Chancellor (1968 – 16 August 1975)
*Armed Forces War College University of Institutionalized Persons (1 December 1969)
*Armed Forces University, Dean of war (1 December 1969 – 7 April 1980)
*Armed Forces University President (16 August 1975 – 7 April 1980)
*Central Consultative Committee of the Kuomintang (1976–unknown)
*Founder of the Chinese Institute of Strategy (1979)
*Taipei Football Association (29 April 1980 – 25 March 1982)
*Chief of the General Command of the Joint Duty (7 April 1980 – July 1984)
*Meihua Sports Promotion Campaign Committee vice chairman (1980 – 22 September 1997)
*Joint Operations Training Officer (1 July 1984 – 18 June 1986)
*National Security Council Secretary-General (18 June 1986 – 28 February 1993)
*Bureau of the Kuomintang Chairman of the Central Consultative Committee (1988–unknown)
*Chairman of the Chinese Institute of Strategy (1990–unknown)
*National Unity Committee
*Presidential advisor (28 February 1993 – 22 September 1997)
*Rotary Club of Taipei
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==Education history==
* Department of Physics, [[Soochow University (Taiwan)|Soochow University]]
* Tenth [[Central Military Academy]]
* [[Munich Military Academy]] (1938)
* [[U.S. Army]] [[Air Corps Tactical School]] (1940)
* U.S. Armored School in India (1943)
* Round Mountain Academy advanced officer corps training (1951),
* [[U.S. Army]] [[National Defense University (Republic of China)|Command and Staff College]] formal training classes (1953)
* School of Social Practice Class III combat training (1955)
* Practical Advanced Military Studies Research Society training classes (1963)

==Written works==
*''Grand Strategy Summary'' ((lang|zh-hant|《大戰略概說》))
*''A Summary of National Strategy'' ((lang|zh-hant|《國家戰略概說》))
*''The strategic value of Taiwan in the world'' ((lang|zh-hant|《臺灣在世局中的戰略價值》))(1977)
*''The Middle Way and Life'' ((lang|zh-hant|《中道與人生》)) (1979)
*''Soft military offensive'' ((lang|zh-hant|《柔性攻勢》))
*''The basic principles of the military system'' ((lang|zh-hant|《軍制基本原理》))(1974)
*''The Z that creates this age'' ((lang|zh-hant|《創造這個時代的Z》))

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Former Residence of Jiang Weiguo in Nanjing 01 2012-11.JPG|Former residence of Chiang Wei-kuo in [[Nanjing]]
File:Chiang Wei-kuo Nazi 2.jpg|Chiang Wei-Kuo as an officer candidate in the German Army, 1938
File:Chiang Wei-kuo wehrmacht LQ.jpg|Chiang Wei-kuo as a ''Fanhnenjunker'' (cadet) in the [[Wehrmacht]] prior to 1939
File:Chiang Weikuo in Kriegsschule(Wehrmacht).png|Chiang Wei-kuo in Germany with other Wehrmacht officer candidates, prior to 1939
File:Chiang Wei-kuo NRA.jpg|Chiang Wei-kuo in German Army mountain troop (''Gebirgsjager'') field attire with the characteristic 'Bergmutze' field cap
File:Chiang Wei-kuo 1941.jpg|Chiang Wei-kuo in the [[National Revolutionary Army]] in 1941, as a second lieutenant stationed in [[Xi'an]]
File:Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Wei-kuo.jpg|Chiang Wei-kuo (right), with father Chiang Kai-shek (left), 1941
File:Chiang Kai-shek with two sons.jpg|Chiang Kai-shek (front) with his sons [[Chiang Ching-kuo]] (rear, left) and Chiang Wei-kuo (rear, right)
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Sino-German cooperation]]
* [[History of the Republic of China]]
* [[Military of the Republic of China]]

== References ==
=== Citations ===
((Reflist))

=== Sources ===
((refbegin))
* Wang Shichun (((lang|zh-hant|汪士淳))), (1996). ''Travelling alone for a thousand mountains: The Life of Chiang Wei-kuo'' (((lang|zh-hant|千山獨行 蔣緯國的人生之旅))), Tianxia Publishing, Taiwan. ((ISBN|957-621-338-X))
* Zhou Shao (((lang|zh-hant|周劭))). ''The trifles of Chiang Wei-kuo's youth'' (((lang|zh-hant|青年蔣緯國瑣事))), within the volume "Huanghun Xiaopin" (((lang|zh-hant|黃昏小品))), Shanghai Guji Publishing House (((lang|zh-hant|上海古籍出版社))), Shanghai, 1995. ((ISBN|7-5325-1235-5))
* Kwan Kwok Huen (((lang|zh-hant|關國煊))). Biography of Chiang Wei-kuo (((lang|zh-hant|蔣緯國小傳))). ''Biography Literature'' (((lang|zh-hant|傳記文學))), ''78'', 4.
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== External links ==
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* ((Commons category-inline|Chiang Wei-kuo))

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