Ion Stănescu

Ion Stănescu (birth name Ion Silaghi ; born January 23, 1929 in Gherceşti , Dolj district ; † June 5, 2010 ) was a politician of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) and a general of the Securitate .

Life

Born as Ion Silaghi, Stănescu initially worked as a milling cutter after attending school and first became a member of the communist youth organization and in 1947 a member of the PCR. After he attended the military school for political officers No. 2 in Oradea between December 1950 and November 1951 , he graduated from September 1952 and October 1955 at the Academy of Social Sciences AA Zhdanow .

In the following years he took on increasingly important tasks in the administration of the Partidul Muncitoresc Român and the Securitate and, after completing a law degree at the University of Bucharest , which he graduated in 1963, became first secretary of the PCR in the Lesser Wallachia region from 1964 to 1967 . He also became a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the PCR in 1965 and was a member of it until 1979.

In 1968 Stănescu became General President of the State Security Council. In April 1972, he was disempowered as chairman of the State Security Council. Nevertheless he remained a member of the government as Minister of the Interior until March 1973 and from 1969 to 1974 a candidate of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the PCR. Between April 1969 and March 1973 he was also a member of the Defense Council of the Socialist Republic of Romania , one of the highest bodies of the Socialist Republic and the main body for national defense issues.

In the following years he was further downgraded in the hierarchy and was first secretary of the PCR from 1974 to 1977 and chairman of the executive council in the Dâmbovița district .

Between January 1977 and March 1978 he held the post of Vice Prime Minister in the Council of Ministers of Prime Minister Manea Mănescu . From March 1978 to March 1981 he was State Secretary in the Ministry for the Construction Industry. After he was only a candidate for the Central Committee between 1979 and 1982, he became a member of the Central Committee again in 1982 and held this position until 1989. In addition, he was first State Secretary in the Ministry of the Chemical Industry from March to August 1981 and then from August 1981 to October 1984 Minister and Head of the Department for Works Abroad. Most recently Stănescu was Romania's Minister of Tourism between October 1984 and the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu on December 22, 1989.

Following the Romanian Revolution in 1989 , he was one of the founding members of the Socialist Workers' Party (Partidul Socialist al Muncii) and the Partidul Alianța Socialistă (Party of the Socialist Alliance), which emerged in 2003 and of which he was temporarily vice-president.

Web links

• EVENEMENTUL ZILEI: O biography neromanțată a unui fost șef al Securității (June 13, 2010)