Constantin Dăscălescu
Constantin Dăscălescu (born July 2, 1923 in Breaza , Prahova district , † May 15, 2003 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian politician .
biography
Career in PCR
Dăscălescu, who came from a working-class family, initially studied at the Academy for Economic Studies in Bucharest and then worked for the oil company Astra Româna from 1945 to 1947 after joining the Romanian Communist Party ( Romanian Partidul Comunist Român , PCR) . After further studies at the school of the PCR in Ploieşti , he was then from 1952 to 1956 director of the party school in Ploieşti and a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the Partidul Muncitoresc Român (PMR). Then he was first organizational secretary of the PCR in Ploieşti. After studying at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow from 1959 to 1962, he was secretary for the organization of the PCR in Galați until 1965 .
In 1965 he was appointed First Secretary and Organizational Secretary of the PCR in Galați County ; he held this position until 1974. At the same time he was elected in 1965 as a deputy of the Grand National Assembly ( Romanian Marea Adunare Națională ) and a member of the Central Committee of the PCR. As such, he won the attention of the PCR General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1969 when he strongly criticized the former PCR General Secretary Gheorghe Apostol in a speech.
In the following years he took on increasingly important positions within the state and party leadership and was a member of the State Council from 1972 to 1975. In 1974 he was first head of the organization department of the Central Committee and then from June 1976 to May 1978 Secretary of the Central Committee. At the same time he was from 1976 to 1978 President of the Union of Agricultural Production Cooperatives (Uniunii Cooperativelor Agricole de Producție) and then from 1978 to 1982 President of the Council for Economic and Social Organization ( Romanian Consiliului Organizării economico-sociale ). As a close confidante of Ceaușescu, he was elected a member of the Political Executive Committee in March 1978 and in November 1979 a member of the Permanent Bureau of the Political Executive Committee and thus a member of the closest leadership of the PCR.
Prime Minister and fall in 1989
On May 21, 1982 he finally succeeded Ilie Verdeț as Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Romania . He held this office until his overthrow during the Romanian Revolution on December 22, 1989. At the same time, he was First Vice President of the Supreme Council for Economic and Social Development ( Romanian Consiliului Suprem pentru Dezvoltarea Economică și Socială ). In the last months of the Communist Party's rule, he was sent from Ceauşescu to Timişoara to end the revolution that had begun there. At first he refused all conversation with the revolutionaries, but later met with representatives of the revolution. During the negotiations, his instructions resulted in the release of 150 people who had previously been arrested by the Securitate secret service . Nevertheless, Dăscălescu did not manage to end the revolt.
After his fall, he was arrested and charged with genocide along with other leading politicians of the Ceaușescu regime. He was accused of aiding and abetting hundreds of deaths during the revolution. The charge was later limited to murder . In 1991 he was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court , but was pardoned in 1996 for health reasons .
literature
- Fischer Weltalmanach , 1990, ISBN 3-596-19090-8 , column 595
- Constantin Dascaléscu , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 44/1982 of October 25, 1982, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dăscălescu, Constantin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Breaza , Prahova County |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 2003 |
| Place of death | Bucharest |