János Fazekás

János Fazekás

János Fazekás (born February 15, 1926 in Lupeni , Hunedoara district ; † March 6, 2004 in Budapest ) was a Romanian politician of the Romanian Workers' Party PMR (Partidul Muncitoresc Român) and from 1965 PCR (Partidul Comunist Român) , who, among other things, between 1954 and in 1965 a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee (CC), from 1967 to 1974 a member of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee and between 1974 and 1982 a member of the Political Executive Committee of the Central Committee.

Fazekás was also Vice Prime Minister between 1965 and 1982 and also held several ministerial offices.

Life

Party official, minister and vice-prime minister

Fazekás, who belonged to the Magyar minority in Romania , worked after attending school from 1938 to 1941 in a carpentry shop in Odorhei and then attended the local high school and normal school between 1941 and 1947. In addition, he was secretary of the local Union of Young Communists UTCdR (Uniunea Tineretului Comunist din România) and joined the then Communist Party PCR (Partidul Comunist din România) as a member in February 1945 . He then worked as a regional instructor of the party and then from 1947 to 1948 as an instructor of the Central Committee and at the same time a member of the Central Committee of the Progressive Youth (Tineretului Progresist) .

After he had attended the Hungarian School of the Central Committee in 1948, Fazakás became an instructor of the Central Committee of the Union of Workers' Youth UTM (Uniunea Tineretului Muncitor) and was then a member of the Central Committee of the UTM from March 22, 1948 to 1954. 1952 Fazekas was first a member of the Grand National Assembly (Marea adunare Naţională) and represented in this until 1957, first the constituency Odorhei , from 1957 to 1961 the constituency of Targu Mures , from 1961 to 1969 the constituency Turda , 1969-1980 the constituency Miercurea Ciuc and last from 1980 to 1985 the constituency of Oradea-Est No. 2 . He became a member of the Central Committee of the PMR at the plenum of the Central Committee of the PMR on April 20, 1954 and was a member of this body for more than thirty years until November 22, 1984.

At the same time he became a member of the Central Committee Secretariat of the PMR on April 19, 1954 and held this position until March 22, 1965. Between October 7, 1955 and January 16, 1956, he was responsible for the departments within the Central Committee Construction, consumer goods, schools and party households in the Central Committee of the PMR, the UTM and the Political Department of the Ministry of Construction. On January 16, 1956, he took over responsibility within the Central Committee Secretariat for the Central Committee Departments of Construction and Consumer Goods as well as the Commission for Nationalization.

On March 25, 1961, Fazekás took over the post of Minister for the Food Industry (Ministrul Industriei Alimentare) and held this post until August 20, 1965. After being a candidate from March 22, 1965 to December 1, 1967, he was accepted on 1. December 1967 member of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the PCR and held this office until November 28, 1974. He was also from August 21, 1965 to March 22, 1975 Vice President of the Council of Ministers (Vicepreședinte al Consiliului de Miniștri) and between March 22, 1974 and May 21, 1980 Minister of Internal Trade (Ministrul Comerțului Interior) . He held the position of Vice Prime Minister (Viceprim-Ministru al Guvernului) from March 22, 1975 to May 21, 1982 and was also a member of the executive office of the government between May 14, 1975 and March 29, 1980.

At the Eleventh Party Congress of the PCR from November 24 to 27, 1974 Fazekás became a member of the Political Executive Committee of the Central Committee and remained a member of the body until May 21, 1982. On March 27, he also became a member of the Office of the Commission on Organizational Issues Party, state, mass and non-governmental organizations at the Central Committee of the PCR. His last position was between April 28, 1980 and May 21, 1982, President of the Council for the Coordination of the Production of Mass Consumer Goods.

honors and awards

Fazekás has received several awards for his longstanding services and received, among other things, the Order of Labor Third Class (Ordinul Muncii) in 1948, the Order of Defense of the Fatherland Second Class ( Apărarea Patriei ) in 1958, and in 1959 the Order of August 23, Fourth Class (Ordinul 23. August) , 1964 the Order of Labor First Class, 1966 the Order Tudor Vladimirescu Second Class (Ordinul Tudor Vladimirescu) , 1971 the title Hero of Socialist Labor (Erou al Muncii Socialiste) , 1971 the Golden Medal "Sickle and Hammer" (Medalia de aur secera si ciocanul) , in 1974 the Order of August 23, Second Class, and in 1976, the Order of August 23, First Class.

publication

• Partidul Comunist Roman. Luptător consecvent pentru frăția și prietenia, pentru egalitatea social și naþională a fiilor patriei: studii și articole , Editura Politică, Bucharest 1980

literature

• Fazekás János. In: Florica Dobre (ed.): Consiliul Național pentru Studiera Arhivelor Securității. Membrii CC al PCR 1945-1989. Dicționary. Editura Enciclopedicã, Bucharest 2004, ISBN 973-45-0486-X , p. 256 ( PDF; 12.1 MB ).