Avram Bunaciu

Avram Bunaciu (born November 11, 1909 in Gurba near Șicula , Arad County , Austria-Hungary ; died April 28, 1983 in Bucharest , Romania ) was a Romanian lawyer and from 1948 a member of the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party ( PMR). He was the Romanian Minister of Justice and Foreign Minister .

Life

Avram Bunaciu was born into a family of Romanian farmers in a village in Arad County. Whether he was of Jewish origin is disputed, according to some sources his birth name is given as Abraham Gutman . After graduating from high school in Beiuș , he studied law at the University of Cluj from 1928 to 1933 . While he had been a supporter of the Romanian Socialists in the early 1930s, he turned to the Romanian Communist Party from 1938 and, as a lawyer, defended several communist defendants in collaboration with Ion Gheorghe Maurer . According to Article 14 of the Armistice Agreement of September 12, 1944 with Romania, the Allied Control Commission , chaired by the Soviet Union, had two people's courts of justice established in Romania to judge war crimes and crimes against humanity after the Second World War . Bunaciu was the chief prosecutor at the People's Court in Cluj , which mainly dealt with war crimes in northern Transylvania under Hungarian rule , while in Bucharest the dictator Ion Antonescu was interrogated and sentenced to death.

After the arrest and dismissal of Lucrețiu Pătrăşcanu , Bunaciu was appointed Minister of Justice in March 1948 and served in this capacity until September 1949. In 1952, he was deputy to Foreign Minister Ana Pauker . After Pauker's forced resignation, he became rector of the University of Bucharest in 1954 and was also secretary of the Grand National Assembly until 1957 . From 1958 to 1961 he was Romania's Foreign Minister, succeeding Ion Gheorghe Maurer. From March 19 to 24, 1965 he was acting chairman of the State Council together with IG Maurer and Ștefan Voitec .

He received several state awards, including the Romanian Order of Labor , the Star of Romania , Order Defense of the Fatherland , Order 23 August (1964) and Order Tudor Vladimirescu (1971).

Web links

Commons : Avram Bunaciu - collection of images, videos and audio files

Members of the Central Committee of the PCR 1945-1989 pp. 118–119. (Romanian)

Individual evidence

^ Armistice agreement with Romania
↑ Dennis Deletant : Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940-1944. Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke 2006, ISBN 1-4039-9341-6 . P. 249.

personal data
SURNAME	Bunaciu, Avram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Romanian lawyer and communist politician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 11, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gurba near Șicula , Arad district , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	April 28, 1983
Place of death	Bucharest , Romania

[1] Armistice agreement with Romania

[2] Dennis Deletant : Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940-1944. Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke 2006, ISBN 1-4039-9341-6 . P. 249.