Ion Gigurtu
Ion Gigurtu (born June 24, 1886 in Drobeta Turnu Severin , † November 24, 1959 in Râmnicu Sărat ) was a Romanian politician, officer of the Armata Română , engineer and industrialist and for the short time from July 4 to September 4, 1940 Prime Minister of Romania , under the royal dictatorship of Charles II of Romania .
life and work
During the interwar period in Greater Romania , the mining expert and veteran of the Second Balkan War and the First World War made a considerable fortune.
Gigurtu was involved in the Partidul Popular (PP) and the Partidul Național Agrar , where he increasingly took National Socialist positions in the course of his political career in the 1930s . In the cabinet of the Romanian Prime Minister Octavian Goga , Gigurtu received the Ministry of Trade and Industry . Shortly after the start of the Second World War , he turned to the Front of National Revival ( Romanian Frontul Renașterii Naționale ) launched by Charles II and, under Prime Minister Gheorghe Tătărescu, took ministerial responsibility for the exterior, construction and news. Gigurtu replaced Tătărescu as Prime Minister after the territorial losses against the Soviet Union.
Gigurtu realized that Romania could not expect any intervention from France and Great Britain . During his tenure in office, for example, he was openly anti-Semitic by introducing his local version of the Nuremberg Laws . Due to the Second Vienna Arbitration Award on August 30, 1940 , the government of the German Reich and Italy was forced to cede part of Transylvania to Hungary. After nationwide protests over the “Viennese betrayal”, Gigurtu was forced to resign from his position.
He retired from public life in Romania until the end of the war. In 1944 Gigurtu supported the royal coup and was arrested and put under pressure several times as a result. The communist regime of the newly formed People's Republic and Socialist Republic put him on a show trial. Ion Gigurtu died in the prison of Râmnicu Sărat ( German Rümnick or Rimnik ).
literature
- Dennis Deletant , Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania, 1940–1944 , Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2006, ISBN 1-4039-9341-6 , in English
- Stelian Neagoe, Oameni politici români , Editura Machiavelli, Bucharest, 2007, ISBN 973-99321-7-7 , in Romanian
- Nicolae Nicolescu, Enciclopedia şefilor de guvern ai României , Editura Meronia, Bucharest, 2006, ISBN 973-7839-09-9 , in Romanian
- Zigu Ornea, Anii treizeci. Extrema dreaptă românească , Editura Fundaţiei Culturale Române, Bucharest, 1995, ISBN 973-9155-43-X , in Romanian
Web links
- Newspaper article about Ion Gigurtu in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Grigore Gafencu |
Romania's Foreign Minister June 1-28, 1940 |
Constantin Argetoianu |
| Gheorghe Tătărescu |
Prime Minister of Romania 4th July - 4th September 1940 |
Ion Antonescu |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gigurtu, Ion |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Drobeta Turnu Severin , Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 24, 1959 |
| Place of death | Râmnicu Sărat , Romania |