Adrian Dumitriu

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Adrian Dumitriu was a Romanian judge and politician with the Romanian Communist Party . He was Romanian Minister of Justice from 1965 to 1970.

Life

Dumitriu became Undersecretary of State for Industry and Commerce in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Petru Groza on March 6, 1945, and was there responsible for war industry until November 30, 1946.

Dumitriu later worked as a judge and in 1959 chaired a court in the trial of Oliviu Beldeanu, who was kidnapped to Romania . On February 14, 1955, he was the leader of the armed occupation of the Romanian embassy in Bern , perpetrated by five Romanians in exile from the Federal Republic of Germany in Switzerland . Dumitriu's accomplices included Stan Codrescu, Ioan Chirila, Dumitru Ochiu, and Tudor Ciochină. The aim of the group was the release of political prisoners in Romania. A member of the embassy was killed in the exchange of fire, the envoy Emmerich Stoffel and his wife were able to escape from the window of the embassy gardener's house and remained unharmed. The perpetrators were sentenced in Switzerland, namely Oliviu Beldeanu to four years imprisonment and an entry ban for eight years, Codrescu to three years imprisonment, Chirila to two years imprisonment, Ochiu to four months imprisonment and Tudor Ciochină to 40 Days of imprisonment that they served in Thorberg Castle . The main perpetrator, Beldeanu, was kidnapped by the State Security Service ( Securitate ) after his release from prison to Romania, where he was sentenced to death by the court chaired by Dumitriu. The death sentence was carried out on February 18, 1960 in Jilava .

In 1959 he also acted as chairman of the court that recognized the philosopher and publicist Constantin Noica , the literary critic Dinu Pillat , the writer Alexandru Paleologu , the journalist Arşavir Acterian on March 1, 1960 as “enemies of the people and mystical-intellectual gang of the Iron Guard for conspiratorial crimes Against the Socialist Order ”to 25 years and the writer and Orthodox hermit Nicolae Steinhardt to 13 years of forced labor.

On March 20, 1965 Dumitriu took over the post of Minister of Justice (Ministrul justiției) in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Ion Gheorghe Maurer and held this until November 28, 1970, after which he was replaced by Teodor Vasiliu .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Federal Minister of the Interior : Abuse of the right of hospitality by individual groups of foreigners in the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn, July 27, 1967.
  2. ↑ Andreas Saurer: How the Romanian Securitate hunted the Bernese embassy occupiers , Berner Zeitung , July 23, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b Stelian Tănase : TERORIŞTII ROMÂNI DE LA BERNA from May 16, 2013.
  4. ↑ Miniştrii Justiţiei (de la 1859 până la zi) (list of Justice Ministers on the Ministry of Justice's website)
personal data
SURNAME Dumitriu, Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian politician (PCR) and judge
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century