Cornel Burtica

Cornel Burtică (born September 3, 1931 in Zegujani , Floreşti , Mehedinți district ; † June 11, 2013 , Cluj-Napoca ) was a Romanian diplomat and politician of the Romanian Communist Party PMR (Partidul Muncitoresc Român) and from 1965 PCR (Partidul Comunist Român ) , who acted as ambassador to Italy , Morocco and Malta between 1966 and 1969 and was a member of the Political Executive Committee of the Central Committee (CC) from 1974 to 1982 and also a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the PCR between 1974 and 1979. He was also minister for several years and also vice-prime minister between 1977 and 1982.

Life

Studies, youth functionary and ambassador

After attending school in 1951, Burtică began studying electromechanics at the Institute of Geology and Mining in Bucharest , which he graduated as an engineer in 1955 . He then worked for some time as an organizer in the Bucharest City Committee of the Union of Young Working People UTM (Uniunea Tineretului Muncitor) , the youth association of the Communist Party, and joined the PMR as a member in March 1956. He then began his professional career in 1956 as chief researcher and university assistant at the Institute for Mining, but shortly afterwards switched to the Institute for Oil, Natural Gas and Geology.

In September 1957 he took over the function of secretary of the committee of student associations in Bucharest and at the same time became a candidate of the party committee of the University of Bucharest . In 1961 he became a member of the Grand National Assembly (Marea Adunare Națională) for the first time , where he represented the constituency of Ilie Pintilie until 1965 . In addition, he was until March 31, 1962 Secretary of the Central Committee of the UTM and at the same time President of the Council of the UASR (Uniunea Asociațiilor Studenților Comuniste din România) .

Subsequently, Burtică moved to the service of the Foreign Ministry and was initially counselor at the embassy in France until March 7, 1966 . Shortly before that, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Italy on February 10, 1966 and held this diplomatic post until April 29, 1969. At the same time, he was Ambassador to Morocco from September 28, 1966 to April 29, 1969 and between September 22, 1969 November 1968 and April 29, 1969 also accredited as Ambassador to Malta .

Minister and Central Committee Secretary

After his return to Romania, Burtică was appointed Minister for Foreign Trade (Ministru al Comerțului Exterior) in the government of Prime Minister Ion Gheorghe Maurer on April 29, 1969 and held this ministerial office until February 23, 1972. He was also appointed on August 12 1969 member of the Central Committee of the PCR and was a member of it until October 8, 1982. On July 21, 1972, he became a candidate of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the PCR and remained in this position until November 28, 1974. He was also from December 30, 1973 to November 2, 1976 President of the National Council of the Radiodifuziunii Române broadcasting company .

Subsequently, Burtică became a member of the Political Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the PCR at the eleventh party congress of the PCR from November 24 to 27, 1974, and was a member of this top management body of the party until October 8, 1982. At the same time he also acted as a member of the Central Committee Secretariat between November 28, 1974 and November 23, 1979. As such, he was also head of the Central Committee's department for propaganda and was responsible for coordinating the Council for Culture and Socialist Education, the Academy for Social and Political Sciences " Ștefan Gheorghiu ", the Institute for Historical and Sociopolitical Studies, the political publishers and the Association of Architects (Uniunea Arhitecților) .

Vice Prime Minister and loss of power in 1982

In 1975 he was re-elected as a member of the Grand National Assembly, in which he first represented constituency No. 1 Drobeta Turnu Severin , and then between 1980 and 1985 the constituency No. 1 Ploieşti-Sud .

In addition to his work in the party leadership, Burtică also became Vice-Prime Minister in the government of Prime Minister Manea Mănescu on January 27, 1977 and also held this position in the government of his successor Ilie Verdeț until May 21, 1982. At the same time he held the office of Minister for Foreign Trade and International Economic Cooperation between March 7, 1978 and March 21, 1982 (Ministru al Comerțului Exterior și Cooperârii Economice Internaționale) .

In May 1982 Burtică lost his influential party and government offices. First he was appointed First Secretary of the Party Committee and President of the Executive Committee of the People's Council in Prahova County in Wallachia on May 24th , before he was deported to the post of Director of the May 1st Factory in Ploieşti in October 1982 and this until March 1990 clothed. In 1985 he also resigned from the Grand National Assembly.

honors and awards

For his many years of service, Burtică has received several awards, including the Order of Labor Second Class (Ordinul Muncii) in 1962 , the Star of the Socialist Republic of Romania Third Class (Ordinul Steaua Republicii Socialiste România) in 1969, and the Star of the Socialist Republic of Romania Second Class in 1971 , 1974 the order of August 23, Second Class (Ordinul August 23) and 1981 the order of August 23, First Class.

Web links

• Biography in Consiliul Național pentru Studiera Arhivelor Securității. Membrii CC al PCR 1945-1989. Dicționar , pp. 121-122
• Biography in the Munzinger archive (top of the online version, accessed on June 23, 2015)