Eugene Dobrogeanu

Eugene Dobrogeanu (1942)

Eugen Dobrogeanu (born October 17, 1913 in Bucharest , † January 18, 1992 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian officer ( retired colonel ) the first bibliographer of Romanian criminology and an active participant in Operation Autonomous .

Career

After completing primary school in 1925, Eugen Dobrogeanu attended Gheorghe Șincai grammar school in Bucharest and graduated from university in 1932. In the same year he was accepted into the gendarmerie officer school, which he graduated in 1935. He then worked as a trainer at the Gendarmerie NCO School in Focşani , where he held lectures on police and forensic technology until 1940.

A licentiate in law and an oral doctorate in economic policy, Eugen Dobrogeanu has published numerous studies on police engineering, forensic science and applied criminology. In his work "The criminal technology in the Romanian bibliography" (Die Moderne Polizei, Focsani 1940) he raised a. a. the merits of Professors Mina and Nicolae Minovici, who laid the foundation of Romanian forensic medicine through their research in the field of forensic medicine in Bucharest.

At the beginning of 1941, Eugen Dobrogeanu was transferred to the Gendarmerie Inspectorate in Bucharest, where he was appointed head of the Department for the Persecution of the Legionnaires' Movement in Section 2. In this function he wrote the daily information report, in which he summarized the gendarmerie reports from all over the country.

In the period 1943-1944 Eugen Dobrogeanu was directly involved as a major in the "Operation Autonomous" under the command of General Constantin Tobescu. As a member of the military guard, he was used to guard the three British officers Alfred Gardyne De Chastelain, Ivor Porter and Silviu Metianu. They were taken prisoner as parachutists in Romania.

Despite all the dangers, Eugene Dobrogeanu maintained friendly relations with the prisoners, gave them assistance and provided them with information on daily events. Finally, he even helped the British officers with the transmission of messages that would help them escape. Eugen Dobrogeanu's assignment to the Eastern Front in Odessa thwarted the escape plans.

Between April 1946 and March 1948 Eugen Dobrogeanu worked as a deputy commander and lecturer at the gendarmerie officers' school. Subsequently, he was recalled as deputy director of the security office and head of the secret service for the security of the state capital, where he was active in the uncovering of legionary organizations and the fight against white-collar crime.

From September 1948 to January 1949, Eugen Dobrogeanu was a member of the organizing committee of the Romanian militia after the gendarmerie was dissolved. He was then assigned to the General Directorate of the Militia as Director of the Public Security and Order Department and Head of the Secretariat and promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.

On March 31, 1951, Eugen Dobrogeanu was arrested for “crimes and intense activity against the working class and revolutionary movement”. After almost 5 years of investigation, he was acquitted in judgment No. 114/1956 and declared innocent, with all penalties and acts reversed.

After his release from prison, Eugen Dobrogeanu first worked as a laborer in a service company in Bucharest, then as an employee at the foreign trade company "Romtrans" in Bucharest, from where he retired.

After the Romanian Revolution in 1989 , Eugen Dobrogeanu was rehabilitated and made Colonel a. D. promoted. He died on January 18, 1992.

Works (excerpt)

• Terrorism under the guise of nationalism (Terorismul sub masca naţionalismului) in Gendarmerie-Magazin No. 3-4 March-April 1938, pages 81-83
• Photography in criminal investigations (Fotografia în cercetǎrile penale) in Gendarmerie-Zeitschrift, 1938
• Microphotography in criminal investigations (Microfotografia în cercetǎrile penale) in the “Modern Police”, 1938
• Radiography in criminal investigations (Radiografia în cercetǎrile penale) in the Gendarmerie-Zeitschrift, October, 1938
• The metric photography (Fotografia metricǎ) in the Gendarmerie magazine, July 1939
• Film technology in criminal investigations (Cinematografia în cercetǎrile penale), Focşani 1939
• The application of criminal photography (Aplicarea fotografiei penale), in the Gendarmerie magazine, October 1940
• Forensic science in the Romanian bibliography (Poliţia ştiinţifică în bibliografia românǎ), Focşani 1940
• Photography under infrared and ultraviolet lighting in forensic evidence detection (Fotografia la razele infraroşii şi ultraviolete în poliţia ştiinţificǎ), November 1940
• Study of firearms (Studiul armelor de foc), in the Gendarmerie magazine, 1940
• Identification by footprints (Identificarea cu ajutorul urmelor de paşi), in the Gendarmerie-Zeitschrift, 1942
• Reconstruction of a crime (Reconstituirea), in the Gendarmerie-Magazin, 1943
• The drawing in the criminal investigation technique (Desenul în tehnica cercetării infracţiunilor), in the Gendarmerie magazine, 1943
• The criminal record (Cazierul judiciar), in the Gendarmerie magazine, 1943
• Principles of forensic science. The speaking portrait and the descriptive feature (Noţiuni de poliţie tehnică. Portretul vorbit sau semnalmentul descriptiv), in the Gendarmerie-Zeitschrift, year XXIII, no. 3-4-5-6, March-June 1945, pages 69-80
• The counterfeiting of money (Falsificarea de bani), in the Gendarmerie-Zeitung No. 1-3, January-March 1947, pages 23-27

Awards

• Order of the Crown of Romania (Knight's Cross with Swords)
• Medal "Liberation from Fascism"
• Medal "Victory against Hitlerism"
• Honorary member of the Italian Scout Association "Federscout"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lazăr Cârjan "Eugen Dobrogeanu - primul bibliograf al criminalisticii române" (in "Analele Universităţii Spiru Haret - Seria Stiinţe Juridice - Anul 8, 2010, Vol. I Editura Fundaţiei România de mâine, pages 11-29)
2. ^ Ivor Porter "Operation Autonomous: with SOE in Wartime Romania" , Chatto and Windus 1989, pages 120, 122, 140, 184, 265
3. ↑ Cristian Troncotă "Eugen Cristescu - asul serviciilor secrete româneşti" Editura Roza Vânturilor, 1994 - page 451
4. ↑ Direcţia Generală a Arhivelor Statului, Centrul de Studii şi cercetări de istorie şi teorie militară. "23 August 1944 - Documente, Raport de lt. Colonel De Chastelaine adresat Foreign Office-ului, privind evenimentele din perioada şederii sale în România, decembrie 1943 - 23 August 1944" Editura Stiinţifică şi Enciclopedică Bucureşti, 1984 - page 804