Alexandru Boaba

Alexandru Boabă (born August 17, 1927 in Valea Mare , Priboieni , Argeş district ; † 1995 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian politician of the Romanian Communist Party PCR (Partidul Comunist Român) , who, among other things, between 1965 and 1969 and again from 1970 to 1971 Minister of Oil, Minister of Chemical Industry between 1969 and 1970 and Ambassador to Iran and Oman from 1974 to 1978 .

Life

Engineer and MP

Boabă completed his school education from 1939 to 1947 at the military school in Craiova and was then responsible for sport in the city committee of the then youth association UTM (Uniunea Tineretului Muncitor) in Curtea de Argeș and from March to August 1948 a brigadier building the railway line at Bumbești- Jiu . He then completed an apprenticeship at the Institute for Petroleum and Natural Gas in Bucharest between 1948 and 1949 and was also an associate instructor at the University of Bucharest and secretary of the UTM youth association at the Institute for Petroleum and Natural Gas. After completing his studies at the Gunschin Institute for Petroleum and Natural Gas in Moscow as a technologist for the processing of crude oil between 1949 and 1954 , he was chief engineer of the oil office at Refinery No. 3 in Ploieşti from July 1954 to 1955, and from 1955 to 1955 October 1960 Director of Refinery No. 3 Teleajen. During this time he was also a member of the Refinery Party Committee and in 1956 also became a member of the Ploieşti City Party Committee and the Prahova County Party Committee .

In 1957 he also became a member of the Grand National Assembly (Marea Adunare Națională) and was a member of this until 1975. At the beginning of his parliamentary membership he became a member of the Committee on Economic and Financial Affairs in October 1957 and was also Vice-President of the Romanian-Belgian Parliamentary Group.

Minister and Ambassador

In October 1960 Boabă became director of Refinery No. 7 in Brazi and then served between January 18, 1962 and February 7, 1963, Director General of the Ministry of Petroleum and Chemical Industry. He then became Deputy Minister for the Oil and Chemical Industry on February 7, 1963, and on August 21, 1965 took over the newly created office of Oil Minister (Ministrul petrolului) in the third cabinet of Prime Minister Ion Gheorghe Maurer . On the IX. Congress of the PCR it was on July 23, 1965 candidate of the Central Committee of the PCR. He held the post of oil minister until March 13, 1969 and then acted from March 13, 1969 to September 17, 1970 as Minister for Chemical Industry (Ministrul Industriei Chimice) in the fifth cabinet of Maurer . On August 12, 1969 he became a member of the Central Committee of the PCR and belonged to this until the XI. Congress on November 28, 1974 .

On September 17, 1970, Boabă was again oil minister in the fifth Maurer cabinet. After this ministerial office was merged with the Mining Ministry to form the Ministry of Mining, Petroleum and Geology on March 29, 1971, he left the government and initially remained a simple member of the Central Committee for the next few years. He was born on November 13, 1974 Ambassador in Iran at the same time and was as such by 10 August 1978 as ambassador to Oman accredited . Most recently, after his return, he was General Director of the Refineries and Petrochemicals Center in Ploieşti between August 21, 1978 and March 9, 1981.

honors and awards

Boabă has received several awards for his services, including the Medalia Muncii (Worker's Medal ) (1959), the Ordinul Muncii (Order of Labor) Second Class (1962), the Ordinul 23 August ( Order 23 August ), Fourth Class (1964) , the Ordinul Tudor Vladimirescu ( Order Tudor Vladimirescu ) Third Class (1966) and the Ordinul Steaua Republicii Socialiste România ( Star of the Socialist Republic of Romania ) Third Class (1969).

literature

• Florica Dobre (ed.): Consiliul Național pentru Studiera Arhivelor Securității. Membrii CC al PCR 1945-1989. Dicționary. Editura Enciclopedicã, Bucharest 2004, ISBN 973-45-0486-X , p. 100 f. ( PDF; 12.1 MB ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Boabă represented the following constituencies in the Grand National Assembly: 1957 to 1961 Mizil , 1961 to 1965 No. 4 Brazi , 1965 to 1969 No. 9 Ceptura and 1969 to 1975 No. 12 Băicoi .