Gheorghe Grigorovici

Gheorghe Grigorovici around 1939

Gheorghe Grigorovici (born May 4, 1871 in Storozynetz , Bukovina , † July 18, 1950 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian journalist and politician. He was a member of the Austrian Chamber of Deputies , member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies , member of the Senate and Undersecretary of State in the Romanian Foreign Ministry.

Life

Griorovici was born as the son of the senior teacher Basile Grigorovici and attended high school in Radautz between 1885 and 1892 . Between 1892 and 1901 he studied medicine and philosophy or linguistics at the University of Vienna and between 1897 and 1913 worked as an editor of the social democratic newspaper Volkspresse in Czernowitz . In addition, he was active from 1906 to 1911 as editor of the social democratic newspaper Lupta ("fight"), which also had its seat in Chernivtsi. In addition, Grigorovici worked from 1905 as secretary of the social democratic party in Bukovina . During the First World War he was the head of the Bukowin refugee welfare department and after the end of the war director of the social insurance institution in Chernivtsi.

Grigorovici, who was mayor of Budenitz , stood for the first time for the election to the House of Representatives in the Reichsrat election in 1907 and prevailed against his competitors in the constituency of Bukovina 2 . In the Reichsrat election in 1911 he was able to successfully defend his mandate, which meant he was a representative of this constituency in the House of Representatives between June 17, 1907 and November 12, 1918. He was a member of the German Social Democratic Club . In 1920 Grigorovici became a member of the Romanian House of Representatives, later of the Senate. From 1936 until all parties were banned, Grigorovici also served as chairman of the Romanian Social Democratic Party. Grigorovici was Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania from 1939 to 1940 and was arrested in 1949 after the communist seizure of power. He died in 1950 in the Văcăreşti prison in Bucharest. His wife, the economist Tatiana Grigorovici , with whom he had been married since 1903, committed suicide in 1952 for fear of arrest. His son Radu Grigorovici was Vice President of the Romanian Academy of Sciences.

literature

• Franz Adlgasser: The members of the Austrian central parliaments 1848–1918. Constituent Reichstag 1848–1849. Reichsrat 1861–1918. A biographical lexicon. Sub-Volume 1: A-L. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2014, p. 373 f.
• Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A biographical-statistical handbook, 1911-1917, XII. Legislative period. Publishing house Dr. Rudolf Ludwig, Vienna 1911, p. 537