Alexandru C. Cuza

Alexandru C. Cuza, around 1900

Alexandru Constantin Cuza (born November 8, 1857 in Iași , Principality of Moldova ; † November 3, 1947 in Sibiu , Kingdom of Romania ) was a Romanian politician and professor of economics at the University of Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iași . He founded the "Partidul Naționalist-Democrat" ( German National Democratic Party ), from which in 1923 the Liga Apărării Național Creștine (“League for Christian National Defense”) emerged.

Under Prime Minister Octavian Goga , who was made head of a new Romanian government by King Carol II in December 1937, he was appointed Minister without Portfolio. After 44 days, this government was dismissed on February 10, 1938. During the short reign, the government of Goga and Cuza passed anti-Semitic laws, through which around 225,000 Romanian Jews, about half of all Jews in Romania , lost their citizenship and became stateless .

Even before Cuza took over the government, there were persecutions of Jews inspired by him. B. in January 1933 in Chernivtsi , which the Viennese weekly newspaper Der Jüdische Arbeiter (organ of Poale Zion ) reported.

Publications (selection)

Generația de la 1848 și era nouă (1889)
Despre poporație. Statistica, teoria, politica ei. Studiu economic-politic (1899).
Obiectul economiei politice și însemnătatea ei (1901)
Naționalitatea în artă (1908)
Plagiarism poporației (1911)
Doctrina naționalistă creștină (1924)
Învățătura lui Iisus, judaismul și teologia creștină (1925)
Lupta pentru credință (1928)

literature

Wolfgang Benz : Romania and the Holocaust. In the S.; Brigitte Mihok (ed.): Holocaust on the periphery. Jewish policy and murder of Jews in Romania and Transnistria 1940–1944. Documents-Texts-Materials Vol. 73, Berlin 2009, pp. 11-30.
Krista Zach: Cuza, Alexandru C. , in: Biographical Lexicon for the History of Southeast Europe . Vol. 1. Munich 1974, pp. 347-349
Michael Hagemeister : The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in court. The Bern Trial 1933–1937 and the “Anti-Semitic International” . Zurich: Chronos, 2017, ISBN 978-3-0340-1385-7 , p. 523
Dietmar Müller: Cuza, Alexandru C. , in: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/1, 2009, p. 155f.

Remarks

↑ JTA (Jewish Telegraph Agency): Jew hatred in permanence . In: Der Jüdischer Arbeiter - Organ of the United Zionist-Socialist Workers' Organization Poale Zion , January 27, 1933. Accessed February 7, 2020. “(Excerpt): Chernivtsi, January 20. (JTA) Chernivtsi, with its Jewish population of more than 50,000, was the scene of heavy fighting on January 10 from morning to evening between Cuza students who wanted to terrorize the Jewish population and Jewish students who opposed the anti-Semitic attackers. The Cuzist riots were triggered by a trial of nine young Jews who were allegedly guilty of communist propaganda. Among the defendants was the young student Polia Vaschcautzianu, known as Natascha, who was subjected to cruel torture while in custody. Shortly after the trial began, nationalist students, supporters of the anti-Semitic leader Cuza, tried en masse to enter the court by force. Police, supported by the gendarmerie, pushed the students back. When it became known that the trial had been postponed to January 20th, the anti-Semitic students formed a monstrous train heading in the direction of the university and the Jewish National House. On the way, Jewish passers-by were attacked and beaten down. Jewish students opposed the attackers to protect the attacked Jews in order to prevent them from further acts of terrorism. "

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Cuza, Alexandru C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cuza, Alexandru Constantin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Romanian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Iași , Principality of Moldova
DATE OF DEATH	November 3, 1947
Place of death	Sibiu , Kingdom of Romania

[Jüd.Arb.1933-01-27-1] JTA (Jewish Telegraph Agency): Jew hatred in permanence . In: Der Jüdischer Arbeiter - Organ of the United Zionist-Socialist Workers' Organization Poale Zion , January 27, 1933. Accessed February 7, 2020. “(Excerpt): Chernivtsi, January 20. (JTA) Chernivtsi, with its Jewish population of more than 50,000, was the scene of heavy fighting on January 10 from morning to evening between Cuza students who wanted to terrorize the Jewish population and Jewish students who opposed the anti-Semitic attackers. The Cuzist riots were triggered by a trial of nine young Jews who were allegedly guilty of communist propaganda. Among the defendants was the young student Polia Vaschcautzianu, known as Natascha, who was subjected to cruel torture while in custody. Shortly after the trial began, nationalist students, supporters of the anti-Semitic leader Cuza, tried en masse to enter the court by force. Police, supported by the gendarmerie, pushed the students back. When it became known that the trial had been postponed to January 20th, the anti-Semitic students formed a monstrous train heading in the direction of the university and the Jewish National House. On the way, Jewish passers-by were attacked and beaten down. Jewish students opposed the attackers to protect the attacked Jews in order to prevent them from further acts of terrorism. "