Gheorghe Rădulescu

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Gheorghe "Gogu" Rădulescu

Gheorghe "Gogu" Rădulescu (born September 5, 1914 in Bucharest , † 1991 Bucharest) was a politician of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR).

Life

The son of a musician and one from Leningrad coming Russian graduated from the Academy of Applied Business and Industrial Studies in Bucharest and graduated with a doctorate from. While still a student, he was active in the 1930s as president of the communist anti-fascist student organization Frontului Studenților Democrați. At the beginning of the Second World War he began his military service , but in 1941 deserted the Red Army . After he was temporarily deported to Siberia , he last lived as a political refugee in Moscow and returned to Romania in 1946.

In the following years he became involved in the PCR and in 1949 became Vice Minister for Foreign Trade until he was expelled from the party in 1952 as a supporter of the group around Finance Minister Vasile Luca , Foreign Minister Ana Pauker and Interior Minister Teohari Georgescu . After he was rehabilitated after several years of house arrest in 1956, he first became Minister for Internal Trade in the government of Prime Minister Chivu Stoica in November 1956 and held this office until March 1957. In August 1959 he was appointed Minister of Commerce and received as such in May 1961 the Medal for the 40th anniversary of the founding of the PCR. In 1960 he was elected a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the PCR and in 1961 a member of the Grand National Assembly .

As part of a government reshuffle, he became Minister for Foreign Trade in April 1962 and finally Vice-President of the Council of Ministers in October 1963. He held this office until March 1979. At the tenth party congress of the PCR in October 1969 , he was elected member of the Presidium of the Central Committee and later party conventions as a member of the permanent bureau of the Political Executive Committee, making him the top leadership of the party until December 1989 belonged to. In addition, from May 1970 to April 1974 he was a member of the Defense Council of the Socialist Republic of Romania , one of the highest bodies of the Socialist Republic and the main body for national defense issues.

In 1975 he became vice-president of the State Council and was thus one of the deputies of President Nicolae Ceaușescu until December 1989 . In addition, he was Vice-President of the Supreme Council for Economic and Social Development from 1979 to 1989 and from 1980 to 1980 Chairman of the Commission of the Central Committee of the PCR for Economic Cooperation and International Relations of the Party and the State.

Until the Romanian revolution in December 1989, he belonged to the top management group around Ceaușescu, who, according to the final report of the presidential commission for the analysis of the communist dictatorship in Romania, expressed himself disparagingly and contemptuously about this in his private sphere. After he was arrested like other political leaders in December 1989, numerous intellectuals such as Geo Bogza , Nicolae Manolescu , Eugen Simion and Ana Blandiana wrote a letter to the prosecutor in favor of Rădulescu. Some time later he was for health reasons from the detention dismissed and died at Jewish Hospital of Bucharest, although he was not a Jew himself.

During his decades of political activity he received several awards and received, among other things, the star of the Socialist Republic of Romania in 1984 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the winners of the medal on the 40th anniversary of the founding of the PCR (Item No. 59) (PDF file; 228 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Rădulescu, Gheorghe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rădulescu, Gogu (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian politician (PCR)
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH 1991
Place of death Bucharest