Lothar Rădăceanu

Lothar Rădăceanu

Lothar Rădăceanu (birth name: Lothar Würtzler ; born May 19, 1899 in Rădăuți , Suceava County , Kingdom of Romania ; † August 24, 1955 in Helsinki , Finland ) was a Romanian politician of the Romanian Workers' Party PMR (Partidul Muncitoresc Român) , who, among other things, several times Minister and between 1948 and 1952 a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee (ZK) of the PMR.

Life

University degree, social democrat and minister

Born as Lothar Würtzler, Lothar Rădăceanu belonged to the minority of the Romanian-German Banat Swabians, attended a grammar school in Bucharest and then began studying at the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Bucharest . During his studies, he joined the Social Democratic Party of Romania PSD (Partidul Social Democrat Român) in 1919 and completed his doctorate in philosophy in 1925 . He initially worked as a teacher and in May 1927 became secretary of the Central Committee (ZK) of the PSD. He was also president of the FFP (Federației Funcționarilor Particulari) officials' union between 1929 and 1937 and since 1936 a member of the central leadership of the National Committee of Fighters for Peace (Comitetului Național de Luptă pentru Pace) . During the Second World War he was a member of the Patriotic Front of Hitler’s opponents FPAH (Frontului Patriotic Antihitlerist) , an organization of the Romanian Communist Party PCdR (Partidul Comunist Român) , opponent of National Socialism .

On August 23, 1944, Rădăceanu became General Secretary of the PSD Central Committee and served as Minister of Labor (Ministrul muncii) in the Sănătescu II , Rădescu and Groza I cabinets between December 6, 1944 and November 30, 1946 . In 1946 he became a member of the Chamber of Deputies (Adunarea Deputaților) and represented the constituency of Bihor in this until 1948 . At the same time he was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies from 1946 and 1948. He was then from November 30, 1946 to April 13, 1948 Minister of Labor and Social Security (Ministrul muncii și asigurărilor sociale) in the Groza II and Groza III cabinet . At the same time he held between December 30, 1947 and April 14, 1948 as acting minister for national education (Ministrul educației naționale) . In 1948 he became a member of the Grand National Assembly (Marea Adunare Națională) and represented in this until 1952 first the constituency of Bihor and then from 1952 to his death in 1955 the constituency of Lehliu .

Member of the Politburo and university professor

Lothar Rădăceanu, who became a member of the resulting Romanian Workers' Party PMR (Partidul Muncitoresc Român) after the forced unification of PSD and PCdR , became a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the PMR at the Sixth Party Congress of the PMR from February 21 to 23, 1948 and belonged to it until his death on August 24, 1955. At the same time he also became a member of the Politburo of the PMR, the Secretariat of the Central Committee and the Organizational Office of the Central Committee and was a member of these bodies until May 27, 1952. In the Groza IV cabinet he was between August 14, 1948 and August 1, 1952 Minister of Labor and Social Welfare (Ministrul muncii și prevederilor sociale) . At the same time, he was a member of the Commission for the Simplification and Regionalization of the State Apparatus from December 1, 1948.

After leaving the government and party leadership, Rădăceanu took over a professorship and head of the Institute for German Studies at the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​and Literature at the University of Bucharest, where he taught until his death. At the same time he was editor of the magazines Socialismul and Vorwärts , which was published especially for the German party members of the PMR. He was also between June 2 and August 24, 1955 again on July 2, 1955 chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Grand National Assembly. On July 2, 1955, he was also titular member of the Romanian Academy (Academia Română) and Tital member of the section for history and linguistics, literature and art of the Romanian Academy. He also became a member of the World Peace Council in 1955 and Vice President of the National Peace Committee (Comitetului Național pentru Apărarea Păcii) . He died on August 24, 1955 while attending an inter-parliamentary conference in Helsinki .

honors and awards

Lothar Rădăceanu has received several awards for his longstanding services, including the Star of Romania (Ordinul național "Steaua României") , in 1945 the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Romania (Ordinul "Coroana României") and in 1946 the Officer's Cross of the Order for Cultural Merit (Ordinul Meritul Cultural) . He later received the Star of the People's Republic of Romania, First Class (Ordinul Steaua Republicii Populare Române) in 1948 , the Order for the Defense of the Fatherland Second Class ( Apărarea Patriei ) and the Order of Labor First Class (Ordinul Muncii) in 1949 .

Publications

• Studii marxiste , Bucharest 1946
• Problems de istorie a literaturii germane , Bucharest 1956

literature

• Lothar Rădăceanu , 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. 500 f. ( PDF; 12.1 MB ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cabinet Sănătescu II
2. ^ Cabinet Rădescu
3. ↑ Groza I cabinet
4. ↑ Groza II's cabinet
5. ↑ Groza III's cabinet
6. ^ Sixth Party Congress of the PMR
7. ^ Cabinet Groza IV