Filip Geltz

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Filip Geltz (also Philipp Geltz , born February 2, 1901 in Neuarad , Kingdom of Hungary ; † September 16, 1994 in Bucharest , Romania ) was a Romanian politician and representative of Romanian-German interests in the People's Republic and Socialist Republic of Romania .

Life

Geltz came from the Banat Swabian ethnic group and originally worked as a carpenter in Arad. In the spring of 1919 he took part in the " dictatorship of the proletariat " of the Federal Hungarian Socialist Council Republic . In the early 1920s he joined the Romanian Communist Party . Between 1933 and 1936 Filip Geltz worked in Moscow at the headquarters of the Communist International (Comintern) . During this time he stayed at the Hotel Lux , where leading political emigrants were quartered. Because of his membership in the Communist Party, he was sentenced in Timișoara in 1942 to a long prison sentence, from which he was released in autumn 1944. As a " Volksdeutscher " he was abducted for forced labor in Donbass in January 1945 , but was able to return to Arad in 1946. He only worked as a communist functionary there, and then in Bucharest from the late 1940s. From the early to mid-1970s he was a member of the Romanian Grand National Assembly . Since the founding of the German Antifascist Committee for Romania in February 1949, he was its first secretary ; In 1951 he took over the chairmanship of Emmerich Stoffel .

From April 18, 1956 to February 1957, he was Minister of Municipal Services and Local Industry in the government of Prime Minister Chivu Stoica . Geltz was entrusted with the “reparation for the damage inflicted on Germanness as a result of previous civil discrimination”. The Ministry Geltz processed "tens of thousands of complaints", which in the summer of 1956 resulted in a decree on the return of houses and yards on expropriated German-born owner of the adoption of which by the end of 1956 their subsequently about 22,000 from 1945 expropriated farms and houses received back .

From 1955 to 1960, Geltz was a member of the Central Audit Commission and from 1957 to 1961 a member of the Presidium of the Grand National Assembly and Vice-President of the state trading company "Centrocoop".

Geltz was a member of the Romanian delegation (Chivu Stoica, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej , Nicolae Ceaușescu , Ștefan Voitec , Grigore Preoteasa and Josiv Puvak ), which visited East Berlin in 1957 . In 1967 he visited the People's Republic of China as head of a Romanian delegation . From 1968 he was a member of the office of the Council of Working People of German Nationality .

Fonts

  • Years of Maturity , leading article in Neuer Weg , August 20, 1964

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims : Documentation of the expulsion of Germans from East Central Europe. Volume III: The Fate of the Germans in Romania. 1957, p. 101E
  2. ^ Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies , Horst Fassel : The German State Theater Timisoara after 50 years against the background of German theater development in Europe and in the Banat since the 18th century. Contributions of the international scientific conference in Timisoara from 5.-7. May 2003. 2005, p. 143
  3. ^ Press and Information Office of the Federal Government : Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1952, p. 1570
  4. ↑ Stelian Neagoe: Istoria guvernelor României de la începuturi - 1859 până în zilele noastre - 1995. Editura Machiavelli, Bucharest 1995, in Romanian
  5. ↑ Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims: Documentation of the expulsion of Germans from East Central Europe. Volume III: The Fate of the Germans in Romania. 1957, pp. 117E and 118E
  6. ↑ Centrul de Resurse pentru Diversitate Etnoculturală: Maghiarii din România (1956-1968) , Volume 6 Minoritãți etnoculturale. Mãrturii documentare. Cluj-Napoca, 2003, p. 188, in Romanian
  7. ^ New Germany : Government Reception for Romanian Guests , April 27, 1957
  8. ^ Radio Free Europe : From the Research Departments of Radio Free Europe: East Europe. Situation Report - Rumania [sic] , Volume 4, Radio Free Europe, 1967, in English
  9. ^ Hannelore Baier : The year 1968 and the German minority ( Memento from July 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Annemarie Weber: Romaniendeutsche ?: Discourses on the group identity of a minority (1944-1971) , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar 2010, ISBN 3-41220-538-9 , p. 342
personal data
SURNAME Geltz, Filip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geltz, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian politician and representative of Romanian German interests
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuarad , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1994
Place of death Bucharest , Romania