Gheorghe Tătărescu

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Gheorghe Tătărescu

Gheorghe Tătărescu (born  November 2 or December 22, 1886 or 1892 in Craiova or Târgu Jiu , Romania ; †  March 28 or March 29, 1957 in Bucharest ) was a liberal Romanian politician . He was twice Prime Minister and twice Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Romania . He waved between fascist and communist forces without ultimately being able to prevent fascism or communism.

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There are very different information about the place and date of Tatărescu's birth.

The son of General Nicolae Tătărescu studied law in Paris , returned as a doctor of law and initially worked in Bucharest as a lawyer. From 1919 Gheorghe Tătărescu sat for Ionel Brătianu's National Liberal Party (Partidul Național Liberal) in parliament and was State Secretary of the Interior Minister in Ionel's government from 1922 to 1926 and, after Ionel's death, from 1927 to 1928 also in Vintilă Brătianu's government. From 1931 he was general secretary within the National Liberal Party. Under Ion Duca , Tătărescu was first Minister of Industry and Trade in November 1933, after Duca's murder he was Prime Minister and Armaments Minister himself from January 1934 to December 1937 and also Minister of the Interior in 1937. Unlike his party rival Dinu Brătianu , Tătărescu was close to the Romanian King Carol II and was therefore also after the establishment of the royal dictatorship and the ban on all parties from February to March 1938, briefly deputy prime minister and foreign minister in the government of the independent Patriarch Miron Cristea , for which Tătărescu and his supporters, known as " dissidents ", were expelled from Brătianu's party. ( Bebe Brătianu was the new general secretary .) From December 1938 to June 1939, Tătărescu, who was considered to be pro-French, was Romania's ambassador in Paris before he was appointed a member of the Privy Council by Carol II and again Prime Minister in November 1939. After the acceptance of the Soviet ultimatum to return Bessarabia , which was unpopular in the country, but inevitable in view of the Hitler-Stalin Pact , Tătărescu had to resign in July 1940 and was again briefly ambassador in Paris. The king also had to abdicate, and Tătărescu initially held back against the ensuing fascist military dictatorship, Ion Antonescu . After Romania's participation in Germany's attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, but above all in view of the Romanian defeat, Tătărescu sought contacts with the Soviet Union from 1943 and formed an anti-fascist opposition alliance with the Communist Party on May 26, 1944 , which also formed on June 20, 1944 Brătianu joined. Both supported the revolution of August 23, 1944 and under the subsequent transitional governments Constantin Sănătescu and Nicolae Rădescu , Dinu and Bebe Brătianu were ministers until March 6, 1945, while Tătărescu had founded his own National Liberal Party in December 1944.

The communist-led coalition government formed by Petru Groza in March 1945 did not join Brătianu in contrast to Tătărescu. Tătărescu was again Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. As Foreign Minister, Tătărescu signed the peace treaty with the Allies in Paris in February 1947 , which gave Romania back at least northern Transylvania , if not Bessarabia. Tătărescu opposed the communist transformation of Romania and therefore had to resign in November 1947 after a vote of no confidence by parliament. His successor as party leader was Petre Bejan . Thereafter, Tătărescu was initially kept away from politics, i. H. he was placed under house arrest by the police or taken to Sighet prison. As part of an amnesty, he was released in autumn 1955 and took over the chairmanship of the state repatriation committee.

Gheorghe's brother Alexandru Tătărescu (1888–1954) was a general, his second brother Stefan Tătărescu (1890–1970) was the leader of a short-lived fascist party in the 1930s. The third brother, Emanuel (Emanoil) Tătărescu (1892–1981) was briefly mayor of Craiova from 1927–1928. Gheorghe Tătărescu was married to Arethia Tătărescu (born Arethia Piteșteanu, 1889–1968), their daughter was Sanda Tătărescu-Negropontes (1919–2009).

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annotation

  1. ↑ Since Prime Minister Brătianu was also Minister of the Interior until 1926, Tătărescu, as his State Secretary, was his deputy and de facto the actual holder of the office. As such he had the Bessarabian rebels bombed by Tatarbunary in 1924 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Gheorghe Tatarescu , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 16/1958 of April 7, 1958 (lm), in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Christoph Kruspe, Jutta Arndt: Taschenlexikon Romania , pages 151 and 207. Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1984
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m britannica.com : Gheorghe Tătărescu
  4. ↑ a b rulers.org: Foreign Ministers (Romania)
personal data
SURNAME Tătărescu, Gheorghe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tătărescu, Guță; Tătărăscu, Gheorghe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Craiova , Târgu Jiu , Romania
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1957
Place of death Bucharest