Fenelon Sacerdoțeanu

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Fenelon N. Sacerdoțeanu (* 1902 in Costeşti , Vâlcea County , † 1982 in Romania) was a Romanian general practitioner in the environment of King Charles II of Romania, colonel in the Romanian army and president of the SLOMR Timisoara union .

life and work

family

Fenelon Sacerdoțeanu belonged to an old boyar family from Costeşti in Vâlcea am Olt . The Sacerdoțeanu family invested in the expansion of the community in the interwar period by building churches, mineral baths, parks and gardens and gave scholarships to talented children. Sacerdoțeanu's brother was a military prosecutor. Fenelon was married and had a son (later chief physician at a Bucharest clinic) and a daughter (Cabaroiu Laura Paula Sacerdoțeanu, later a doctor in Timișoara ).

It is unclear whether Fenelon Sacerdoțeanu was related to the Romanian historiographer Aurelian Sacerdoțeanu (April 1904 - June 7, 1976) , who also came from Costeşti . This was a student of Nicolae Iorgas , author of several hundred non-fiction publications on medieval studies and until 1953 head of the National Archives in Bucharest.

Career

Sacerdoțeanu was a general practitioner . In 1929 he wrote his "Anexita tuberculoasa" dissertation at the Medical and Pharmaceutical University Carol Davila in Bucharest (Romanian: Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie "Carol Davila" ). During the time of the Kingdom of Romania, he worked for many years in the environment of King Charles II (Romania) as personal physician to the royal mistress Elena Lupescu and taught at the University of Bucharest . He was also active as an author and wrote a number of historical works, which, however, could not be published.

Sacerdoțeanu was a convinced Greater Romanian and was of the opinion that Bessarabia , which was occupied by the Soviet Union as a result of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact in the run-up to World War II , was an integral part of Romania as an old part of Moldova . Therefore he felt the campaign against the Soviet Union , in which he took part in 1941 as a doctor with the rank of colonel in the Romanian army, as morally justified and legitimate. In 1947 he received the honorary badge for 25 years of active service in the army (Romanian: Semnul onorific de aur pentru 25 ani impliniti in serviciul militar activ ) and was honorably discharged from the army. With the rise of the Communist Party around 1950, the family's possessions were nationalized .

Until 1963 there was a gap in Sacerdoțeanu's curriculum vitae. Around 1963 Sacerdoțeanu moved to the western Romanian city of Timișoara, where he later led the cultural-political discussion group OTB ( Romanian Organizaţia Timiş-Banat ), which dealt particularly with the human rights problem in the Eastern Bloc after the conference on security and cooperation in Europe in Helsinki in 1975 and which also includes Carl Gibson , Erwin and Edgar Ludwig, Stefan Wolf, Helmut Reiter, Horst Gängler, Helmut Wallner and Steffy Mayer belonged. After the partial smashing of the Free Trade Union of Romanian Workers SLOMR ( Romanian Sindicatul liber al oamenilor muncii din România ) founded in Bucharest in 1979, he founded the regional organization SLOMR Timisoara together with other, mainly Banat Swabian sympathizers of the Free Trade Union and the OTB discussion group , which he - as the representative of the state nation - was appointed. In this capacity, Sacerdoțeanu had to undergo interrogation by the Romanian secret service Securitate .

The literature does not provide any information about how Sacerdoțeanu spent the time after the interrogations from 1979 until his death in 1982.

Web links

  • Regatul României. Monitorul Oficial. Royal Romanian Official Gazette of February 17, 1945, p. 3, mentioning a promotion of Fenelon Sacerdoțeanus, in Romanian (→ online ; PDF; 20.8 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ferigile – Valcea, Școala cu clasele I-VIII Ferigile: Prezentare , in Romanian (→ online )
  2. ↑ Asociatia Prietenii (MNIR), Monumentele Istorice din România: Stabilimentul băilor , May 23, 2011, in Romanian (→ online )
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Carl Gibson : Symphony of Freedom. Resistance to the Ceausescu dictatorship. Chronicle and testimony of a tragic human rights movement in literary sketches, essays, confessions and reflections. , JH Röll Verlag, Dettelbach, 2008, p. 418 With 16 ink drawings by Michael Blümel. ISBN 978-3-89754-297-6
  4. ↑ Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie "Carol Davila" din București, Catalogul Tezelor de Doctorrat (ante 1945) Sustinute in Bucuresti, Aranjare Alafabetica 3166 ex - September 2010 , entry 2522: Sacerdoțeanu N. Fenelon, Anexita tuberänculoasa, → in Excel File online ( Memento from May 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ William Totok, Carl Gibson: Experience History. In: Resistance to the Ceaușescu regime - Rezistenta împotriva regimului ceaușist , February 2007 (→ online )
  6. ^ Regatul României. Monitorul Oficial. Royal Romanian Official Gazette of September 6, 1945, p. 10B, in Romanian (→ online ; PDF; 20.8 MB)
  7. ↑ William Totok : 20 de ani de la prăbuşirea blocului comunist est-european , April 20, 2009, in Romanian (→ online )
  8. ↑ Carl Gibson: The brief flare-up of resistance Founding and breaking up the first free trade union in Romania - an experience report , (→ online ; PDF; 1.8 MB)
  9. ^ Carl Gibson: Legitimate protest against Ceauşescu dictatorship. In: Siebenbürgische Zeitung, March 20, 2009, accessed on February 19, 2013, (→ online )
personal data
SURNAME Sacerdoțeanu, Fenelon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sacerdoțeanu, Fenelon N.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian general practitioner, Colonel in the Romanian Army, President of the SLOMR Timisoara union
DATE OF BIRTH 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Costești (Vâlcea) , Romania
DATE OF DEATH 1982
Place of death Romania