Aurel Vijoli

Aurel Vijoli (born February 12, 1902 in Recea , Brașov district , † July 1, 1981 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian politician of the Romanian Communist Party PMR (Partidul Muncitoresc Român) and from 1965 PCR (Partidul Comunist Român) . On November 18, 1947, he succeeded Tiberiu Moșoiu as governor of the Romanian National Bank BNR (Banca Națională a României) and held this office until November 1948. On March 20, 1957, he took over the post of finance minister (Ministrul finanțelor) in the Stoica II cabinet. and held this position in the following Cabinet Maurer I , Cabinet Maurer II , Cabinet Maurer III and Cabinet Maurer IV until he was replaced by Virgil Pârvu on July 16, 1968.

Life

Degree, bank manager and governor of the National Bank

Aurel Vijoli joined the General Directorate for the Budget of the Ministry of Finance in 1921 and was then an accountant at Banca Viticola between 1922 and 1923 , before moving to the Romanian National Bank BNR (Banca Națională a României) on August 1, 1923 . He was initially from August 1, 1923 to December 1924, a member of the board secretariat and from December 1924 to 1929 head of the remittances section . He graduated from the Law Faculty of the Bucharest Business Academy and on June 3, 1929 became manager of the National Bank, where he was head of the discount section between 1929 and 1936 . In 1936 he earned a doctorate in economics and law at the Academy for Commercial and Industrial Studies and then moved to the Ministry of National Economy, where he was head of the foreign exchange section of the General Directorate for Foreign Trade between 1936 and 1938. He was then from 1938 to 1941 technical advisor for the organization of administrative tasks of the Supreme Bank Council (Consiliului Superior Bancar) .

In 1941 Vijoli returned to the National Bank and was an inspector there until 1943. During this time he became a member of the then Romanian Communist Party PCR (Partidul Comunist din România) in 1943 . He worked for the statistical service between 1943 and April 1945 and in October 1944 became head of the collective of economists of the National Democratic Front FND (Frontul Național Democrat) . Between April 1945 and May 1946 he was administrative director of the Romanian National Bank and then from May 1946 to November 1947 Vice-Governor and member of the Supreme Economic Council of the National Bank. In 1946 he also became a member of the Chamber of Deputies (Adunarea Deputaților) and represented the constituency of Arad in it until 1948. On November 8, 1947 he finally succeeded Tiberiu Moșoiu as governor of the Romanian National Bank BNR (Banca Națională a României) and held this office for a year until November 1948. He then served as President of the State Bank between November 1948 and March 1952 (Băncii de Stat) and at the same time was Vice Minister of Finance. At the same time he was between 1948 and March 1952 professor and chair holder for the circulation of money and credit at the Bucharest Business Academy. In addition, he became a member of the Grand National Assembly (Marea Adunare Națională) in 1948 and was a member of this as a representative of the Bucharest constituency until 1952.

Finance Minister and Central Committee member

In May 1952 Aurel Vijoli was arrested by officials of the Interior Ministry MAI (Ministerul Afacerilor Interne) on charges of "undermining the national economy". In September 1954 he was released from custody after the initial suspicion and the allegations against him had not been confirmed. After that, in October 1954, he resumed his position as professor and chair holder for the circulation of money and credit at the Bucharest Business Academy, where he taught until 1968. In 1956 he was again accepted into the now Romanian Workers' Party PMR (Partidul Muncitoresc Român) . From September 1956 to March 1957 he was advisor to the Council of Ministers for finance and banking.

On March 20, 1957, Vijoli took over the office of finance minister (Ministrul finanțelor) in the Stoica II cabinet and held this position in the subsequent Maurer I , Maurer II , III and IV cabinet until he was replaced by Virgil Pârvu on 16 March 1957 . July 1968. At the Eighth Party Congress of the PMR (June 20-26, 1960) he became a candidate for the Central Committee (ZK) of the PMR. In addition, he was again a member of the Grand National Assembly in 1961, in which he represented the constituency of Sighet No. 14 until 1969 . At the Ninth Party Congress of the PCR (July 19 to 24, 1965) he became a member of the Central Committee of the PCR, of which he was a member until November 28, 1974. After leaving the government he was from July 16, 1968 to March 12, 1969 President of the Finance and Economic Commission of the Grand National Assembly. At the Eleventh Party Congress of the PCR (November 24 to 27, 1974) he became a member of the Central Revision Commission of the Central Committee of the PCR, of which he was a member until his death on July 1, 1981.

honors and awards

Aurel Vijoli has received several awards for his longstanding services and received, among other things, the Star of the People's Republic of Romania Second Class (Ordinul Steaua Republicii Populare Române) in 1948 , the Order of Labor Third Class (Ordinul Muncii) in 1957, and the Order of 23 August Third Class in 1959 ( Ordinul 23 August) , 1962 the Star of the People's Republic of Romania first class, 1963 the Star of the People's Republic of Romania third class, 1964 the Order of Labor First Class, 1966 the Order Tudor Vladimirescu Third Class (Ordinul Tudor Vladimirescu) and 1971 the Order Tudor Vladimirescu Second class.

The Technical School Colegiul Tehnic "Aurel Vijoli" in Făgăraș was named in his honor.

Publications

• Sistemul bănesc în slujba claselor exploatatoare. Din Ţările Romîne şi Romînia burghezo-moşierească , Editura Ştiinţifică, 1958
• Din prefacerile sistemului bănesc și de credit , Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, 1980

Background literature

• Robert Levy: Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist , University of California Press, 2001
• Csaba Bekes, Laszlo Borhi, Peter Ruggenthaler, Ottmar Trasca: Soviet Occupation of Romania, Hungary, and Austria 1944 / 45–1948 / 49 , Central European University Press, 2015

Web links

• Biography in Consiliul Național pentru Studiera Arhivelor Securității. Membrii CC al PCR 1945-1989. Dicționar , pp. 617-618
• Entry in rulers.org
• The Governments of the Socialist Republic of Romania 1945–1989

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dennis Deletant: Romania under Communism: Paradox and Degeneration , Routledge, 2018
2. ^ Romania: Key Ministries (rulers.org)