Ilie Verdeț

Ilie Verdeț

Ilie Verdeț (born May 10, 1925 in Comăneşti , Bacău County , † March 20, 2001 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian politician .

biography

Career in PCR

Verdeț, the son of a miner, became a member of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) in 1945 . In the following years, he was first in the union of the miners worked, and in this vice president and president. In 1948, after the founding of the People's Republic of Romania, he became mine director himself. At the same time he studied at the party college of the PCR and at the Academy of Economics in Bucharest . In 1954 he became first secretary of the PCR in Hunedoara and as such in 1955 he was also a candidate for the Central Committee (ZK) of the PCR. In 1956 he then moved to the central party apparatus as deputy head of the organization department of the Central Committee. In June 1960 he became a member of the party's Central Committee and belonged to it until the collapse of communism in 1989.

In the following years he took on increasingly important offices within the state and party leadership and was secretary of the Central Committee for the first time from March to July 1960.

In 1965 he was first Deputy Prime Minister and then in 1967 First Deputy Prime Minister. Between 1966 and 1977 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Permanent Presidium of the Central Committee. In 1973 he became deputy chairman of the newly created Supreme Council for Economic and Social Development ( Romanian Consiliului Suprem pentru Dezvoltarea Economică și Socială ). In addition, he was again the Central Committee Secretary from March 1974 to March 1978 and, as such, also became a member of the party's highest governing body in 1977, the Permanent Presidium of the Political Executive Committee, of which he was also a member until 1989. When he was sent by PCR General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu to end a strike by miners in southwest Romania in 1977 , he was taken hostage for some time by the angry workers . In 1978 he was again First Deputy Prime Minister and also chairman of the State Planning Committee. Between March 1978 and May 1982 he was also a member of the Defense Council.

Prime Minister and time after the 1989 revolution

On March 29, 1979, he was appointed Prime Minister as successor to Manea Mănescu and held this office until he was replaced by Constantin Dăscălescu on May 21, 1982. From October 1982 to November 1984 he was again Secretary of the Central Committee.

During the Romanian Revolution , which led to the overthrow of the Ceaușescu regime, he formed a Provisional Government in December 1989, which, however, only held office for 20 minutes. In the course of events, however, he could not prevail against the later President Ion Iliescu .

In 1990 he founded the Socialist Labor Party ( Romanian Partidul Socialist al Muncii , PSM), of which he was chairman from November 16, 1990 to July 1, 1999. He then became honorary chairman of the PSM.

Web links

• rulers.org

Individual evidence

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