Grigore Preoteasa

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Grigore Preoteasa

Grigore Preoteasa (born August 25, 1915 in Bucharest , † November 4, 1957 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) was a Romanian journalist, politician and communist activist. From October 4, 1955 until his death, he was Romanian Foreign Minister .

Life

Grigore Preoteasa was born in Bucharest in 1915. His father was a Bucharest typesetter who worked in the printing house of the state railways. After school, Preoteasa attended the Faculty of Philology at the University of Bucharest . He later became a member of the Romanian Communist Party and leader of the Student Democratic Front ( Frontul Studenţesc Democrat or Frontul Democratic Universitar ). Between late 1944 and 1946 he was editor-in-chief of România Liberă . Nicolae Ceaușescu's friend was a typical representative of the party's intellectual offspring. After rising within the party, he became Romanian Foreign Minister on October 4, 1955 .

On November 4, 1957, Preoteasa flew to Moscow with a Romanian state and government delegation on the 40th anniversary of the Great Socialist Revolution. Nicolae Ceaușescu was also on board the machine. The plane crashed while approaching Moscow's Vnukovo airport . In the plane crash, Grigore Preoteasa and three crew members were killed. The other aircraft occupants were slightly to seriously injured. The body of Grigore Preoteasas was then laid out in the Moscow House of the Trade Unions . The burial took place after the transfer on November 13, 1957 in the Bucharest cemetery Ghencea.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Society for Eastern European Studies: Eastern Europe - Volume 8 , p. 127, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1958
  2. ↑ Vladimir Tismaneanu: Stalinism for all seasons - A political history of Romanian communism. University of California, 2003, ISBN 0-520-23747-1 , p. 267.
  3. ↑ Nicolae Ceausescu 1957 (rum.) Accessed on November 14, 2010
  4. ↑ Thomas Kunze: Nicolae Ceausescu - A biography. Ch. Links Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-562-1 , p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Preoteasa, Grigore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian journalist, politician and communist activist
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH November 4th 1957
Place of death Moscow , Soviet Union