Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu

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Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu

Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu (born January 1, 1923 in Recea in Făgăraș County , Kingdom of Romania ; † May 1, 2006 in Sântimbru , Alba County , Romania ) was a fascist -minded rioter in the armed anti-communist resistance in the People's Republic and Socialist Republic of Romania. He is considered the longest-hunted Romanian irregulars of the post-war period and became the legendary figure of the Romanians in the resistance against the communist dictatorship in the country.

Life

Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu was the child of a Romanian family and had two siblings. He attended the "Radu Negru" lyceum in Făgăraş . According to one of the Romanian secret service Securitate started biographical note, the leader of the involved legionaristischen youth organization "Cross brotherhoods" ( Romanian Frăţiile de cruce ) in 1941 where against Prime Minister and Marshal Ion Antonescu directed coup of the Legionaries . For participating in the Legionnaires' rebellion, he received a ten-year prison sentence, but was released from prison on April 19, 1944. After the Second World War , he studied agronomy in Cluj and continued his illegal legionary activities. In order to escape an imminent arrest, he appeared on 20 March 1949 and established a consisting of eleven men Freischärlergruppe . Of the eleven group members named in the Securitate files, six were legionnaires, one legionnaire sympathizer, one member of the banned National Peasant Party and two are described as non-party.

A military court from Brașov sentenced him in absentia to 19 years in prison and in 1951 to death. For 29 years the Securitate tried unsuccessfully to arrest him. During this time he lived a hidden life for 21 years in the house of Ana Săbăduș, the widow of a political prisoner, whom he later married. According to reports, US President Richard Nixon made his 1973 visit to Bucharest conditional on the sentence being overturned. After his arrest in 1976, Ogoranu was shortly released.

In the early 1990s he was elected chairman of the “Foundation of Former Armed Anti-Communist Resistance Fighters” (FLRAA), published his memoirs and reappeared as a militant right-wing extremist activist. Many of his numerous essays and interviews have appeared in relevant right-wing publications. In many propaganda lectures in the early 1990s he tried to revive Legionarism. Ogoranu was also one of the initiators of an annual gathering of former partisans organized in the Transylvanian monastery of Sâmbăta de Sus , of whose activities a memorial erected in 1995 in the same monastery is to commemorate.

Publications

  • Brazii se frâng dar nu se îndoiesc, vol. I, Editura Marineasa, Timișoara, 1995
  • Brazii se frâng dar nu se îndoiesc, vol. II, Editura Marineasa, Timișoara, 1996
  • Brazii se frâng dar nu se îndoiesc, vol. III împreună cu Lucia Baki Nicoară, Editura Marineasa, Timișoara, 1999, ISBN 973-85045-8-9 )
  • Brazii se frâng dar nu se îndoiesc, vol. IV, Editura Mesagerul de Făgăraș, 2004
  • Brazii se frâng dar nu se îndoiesc, vol. V, La pas prin Frăția de Cruce, Editura Mișcării Legionare, 2006
  • Brazii se frâng dar nu se îndoiesc, vol. VI, Episcopul Ioan Suciu în fața furtunii, Editura Viața Creștină, Cluj, 2006
  • Brazii se frâng dar nu se îndoiesc, vol. VII, Rezistența anticomunistă din Munții Apuseni, Editura Marist, Baia Mare, 2007, with Elis Neagoe-Pleșa and Liviu Pleșa
  • Întâmplări din lumea lui Dumnezeu, Editura "MC", 1999
  • Amintiri din copilărie, Editura Marineasa, Timișoara, 2000
  • Iuda, Editura Marist, Baia Mare, 2008, with Anamaria Ciur

filming

Gavrilă Ogoranu's life was the subject of the film Portretul luptătorului la tinerețe ( German  portrait of the fighter as a young man ) by the Romanian director Constantin Popescu . The film was presented at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2010 and attracted protests from the International Commission for Research into the Holocaust in Romania . This demanded that the film be removed from the program. The festival management refused, arguing that they didn't believe in censorship, but that they believed in discussion and education. She is aware that Ogoranu has made “extremist, racist and anti-democratic statements” in public, but does not support these views, any more than the film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hans Bergel : The unknown rebellion - armed resistance against the communist dictatorship in Romania , 2004 (→ online ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.horch-und-guck.info archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
  2. ↑ a b William Totok : Coming to terms with the past between myth and trivialization - On the armed anti-communist resistance in Romania , 2004 (→ online ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.horch-und-guck.info archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
  3. ↑ Adevărul , Dorin Timonea: Revoluţia partizanilor conduşi de Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu, simbol al luptei împotriva regimului comunist , April 28, 2014, in Romanian (→ online )
  4. ↑ evz: Filmul despre Gavrilă Ogoranu provoacă proteste la Berlin , February 16, 2010, in Romanian (→ online )
  5. ↑ Myth and Mystification - With şi mistificare. In: Half-yearly publication - hjs-online , November 15, 2014 (→ online )
  6. ↑ Techniques of manipulation - tehnici de manipulare - Section II: Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu, in: Half-yearly publication - hjs-online , February 1, 2013 (→ online )
  7. ↑ William Totok, Portretul luptătorului la tinerete (film by Constantin Popescu, 2010), in: Handbook of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in the past and present, literature, film, theater and art , Vol. 7, edited by Wolfgang Benz, De Gruyter Saur, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2014, pp. 390–391.
  8. ↑ Spiegel Online : Protests from Holocaust Institute: Berlinale Resists Call to Pull Romanian Film , February 17, 2010, in English (→ online )
  9. ↑ EVZ.ro: Filmul despre Gavrilă Ogoranu provoacă proteste la Berlin , February 16, 2010, in Romanian (→ online ( Memento from January 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) )
personal data
SURNAME Gavrilă Ogoranu, Ion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian irregulars
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Recea, Făgăraș County , Romania
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 2006
Place of death Sântimbru , Alba County , Romania