Gheorghe Vasilichi

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Gheorghe Vasilichi

Gheorghe Vasilichi (born September 7, 1902 in Cetate , Dolj district ; † October 31, 1974 , Piatra Neamț ) was a Romanian politician of the Romanian Workers' Party PMR (Partidul Muncitoresc Român) , who was a minister several times and a member of the Politburo between 1945 and 1952 of the Central Committee (ZK) of the PMR was.

Life

Party official, Spanish Civil War and World War II

After attending school, Gheorghe Vasilichi worked as a tinsmith and was a member of the iron and metal workers' union (Sindicatul fermetal) between 1924 and 1933 and a member of the workers' and peasants' block (Blocul Muncitoresc Țărănesc) from 1926 . In 1926 he became secretary of the city committee of the Communist Youth Union UTCdR (Uniunea Tineretului Comunist din România) in Bucharest and in 1927 a member of the then Communist Party PCdR (Partidul Comunist din România) and took part in 1929 as a delegate at the International Trade Union Congress in Moscow . In 1930 he took over the role of secretary of the PCdR City Party Committee in Bucharest. During the oil workers' strike in 1933 he was secretary of the PCdR regional party committee in Prahova County and arrested in February 1933 in the course of the strike at the Căile Ferate Române (CFR) railway company in Grivița , in which Vasile Roaită was killed. On June 4, 1934, he was sentenced by the court martial of the First Corps to twelve years imprisonment, which he served in prisons in Jilava , Văcăreşti and Craiova under the Act to Combat Crimes against Public Order .

After he managed to escape in January 1935, Vasilichi emigrated to the Soviet Union and participated as a volunteer in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War (July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939). Later he participated in the Resistance in France at the resistance against Nazism in part and, after a recent arrest in the Dachau concentration camp internment.

Minister and Politburo member

After his liberation, Gheorghe Vasilichi returned to Romania, where he was a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the PMR at the National Conference (Conferința Națională) from October 16-22 , 1945 , and was a member of it until December 28, 1955. In 1946 he became a member of the Chamber of Deputies (Adunarea Deputaților) and represented the Prahova constituency in this until 1948 . Between December 30, 1947 and April 14, 1948, he served as Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of National Education. In 1948 he became a member of the Grand National Assembly (Marea Adunare Națională) and belonged to it until his death. He became a member of the PMR Politburo at the PMR's Sixth Party Congress from February 21 to 23, 1948 and was a member of these bodies until May 27, 1952.

On April 14, 1948, Vasilichi took over the post of Minister for Public Education (Ministrul învățământului public) in the Groza IV cabinet and held it until he was replaced by Nicolae Popescu-Doreanu on April 23, 1949. Subsequently, in the course of a cabinet reshuffle, he replaced Miron Constantinescu on April 23, 1949 as Minister for Mining and Oil (Ministrul minelor și petrolului) and remained in this post until August 5, 1950, after which Constantin Mateescu succeeded him. In 1951 he became president of the National Union of Cooperatives of the Crafts UCECOM (Uniunea Națională a Cooperației Meşteşugăreşti) and remained in this post until 1969. At the Seventh Party Congress of the PMR ( 23-28 December 1955) he was a candidate for the Central Committee of the PMR and held this position until June 25, 1960. At the Eighth Party Congress of the PMR from June 20 to 26, 1960 he was again a member of the Central Committee of the PMR and was a member of this body until his death on October 31, 1974. He was also a member of the board of the Romanian group at the Interparliamentary Union (IPU) from March 19, 1965, and from March 12, 1969 until his death on October 31, 1972, chairman of the Committee on Health, Labor and Social Security (Comisiei pentru sănătate, muncă și asigurări sociale) .

honors and awards

Gheorghe Vasilichi has received several awards for his longstanding services and received, among other things, the Order of Labor First Class (Ordinul Muncii) in 1948, the Star of the People's Republic of Romania First Class (Ordinul Steaua Republicii Populare Române) in 1948 , and in 1949 the Order for the Defense of the Fatherland First Class ( Apărarea Patriei ) , 1959 the Order of August 23, First Class (Ordinul August 23), 1962 the title of Hero of Socialist Labor (Erou al Muncii Socialiste) , 1966 the Order of Tudor Vladimirescu First Class (Ordinul Tudor Vladimirescu) , 1971 the Order of the Victory of Socialism (Ordinul Victoria Socialismului) and most recently in August 1974 the title of Hero of the Socialist Republic of Romania (Erou al Republicii Socialiste România⁠) .

literature

  • Gheorghe Vasilichi , In: Florica Dobre (Ed.): Consiliul Național pentru Studiera Arhivelor Securității. Membrii CC al PCR 1945-1989. Dicționary. Editura Enciclopedicã, Bucharest 2004, ISBN 973-45-0486-X , p. 606 f. ( PDF; 12.1 MB ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the Grand National Assembly until 1952 he represented the constituency of Prahova , between 1952 and 1957 the constituency of Calafat , from 1957 to 1961 the constituency of Cujmir , between 1961 and 1965 the constituency No. 10 Cetate , from 1965 to 1969 the constituency No. 10 Calafat and last between 1969 and his death in 1975 the constituency No. 17 Sinaia .
  2. ^ Sixth Party Congress of the PMR
  3. ^ Cabinet Groza IV
personal data
SURNAME Vasilichi, Gheorghe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian politician (PMR / PCR)
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Cetate , Dolj County , Kingdom of Romania
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1974