Mihai Gere

Mihai Gere

Mihai Gere (born September 2, 1919 in Timișoara , Timiș County ; † October 7, 1997 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian politician of the Romanian Communist Party PMR (Partidul Muncitoresc Român) and from 1965 PCR (Partidul Comunist Român) , who among other things between 1969 and 1974 member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee (ZK) of the PCR.

Life

Mason, youth and party functionary

Gere, who belonged to the Magyar minority in Romania , worked as a bricklayer at the Hubert Gallasch company in Timișoara between 1935 and 1940 after attending primary school and three-year vocational school . In addition, he was involved in 1940 as a member of the Union of Young Communists UTCdR (Uniunea Tineretului Comunist din România) , but was arrested in 1940 for his political activities and was a political prisoner in Caransebeş prison until 1944 and then in Văcăreşti. After his release he was an activist in the UTCdR committee in Timiș County and Torontál County from 1944 to 1945 . On August 23, 1944, he joined the then Communist Party PCR (Partidul Comunist din România) as a member.

After the end of the war, Gere served from 1945 to 1946 as vice-president for the organization of the Progressive Youth Association (Tineretului Progresist) in Timiș County and was then an activist of the party committee in the third district of Timișoara between 1946 and 1947, before he was an activist in the youth section of the party committee in Timiș County . In 1948 he was temporarily director of an organization course for peasant party cadres in Timișoara and then between 1948 and 1949 an activist in the propaganda section of the party committee in Timiș County. This was followed by a position as head of the section for propaganda and agitation and as vice-secretary of the party committee in Timiș County from 1949 to September 1950.

In September 1950 Gere became Secretary for Propaganda and Agitation in the Party Committee of the Cluj Region and was then from June 12, 1951 to 1952 Secretary for Propaganda and Agitation in the Party Committee of the Stalin Region. After studying at the party college of the CPSU between 1952 and 1955 , on his return in 1955 he was first deputy head of the organization department of the Central Committee of the PMR, before he was deputy head of the Central Committee department for propaganda from October 6, 1957 to June 23, 1964 and agitation was. At the same time he served between December 10, 1961 and March 18, 1965 for the first time as President of the Council for Local Government Problems and was also President of the Executive Committee of the People's Council in the Mureș-Autonomă Maghiară region from 1964 to June 6, 1966.

Central Committee member, deputy and Central Committee secretary

At the ninth party conference of the PCR from July 19 to 24, 1965 , Gere became a member of the PCR Central Committee and was a member of it until December 22, 1989. At the same time he became a candidate for the Executive Committee of the Central Committee and was a member of it until November 28, 1974. At the same time he acted from August 21, 1965 to 1967 as Vice President of the Council of State (Consiliului de Stat) , the collective body that provides the President. He was also President of the Council for Local Government Problems from December 9, 1967 to March 13, 1969, and in February 1969 he also became a member of the Economic Council.

In 1965 Gere became a member of the Grand National Assembly (Marea Adunare Națională) for the first time , where he initially represented the constituency Luduș No. 18 until 1969, the constituency Sfântu Gheorghe No. 1 between 1969 and 1975, and the constituency Satu Mare-Sud No. 1 from 1975 to 1980 2 and between 1980 and 1985 the constituency of Târgu Mureș No. 3 , before he last represented the constituency of Vișeu de Sus No. 8 from 1985 to 1989 . During his parliamentary membership he was a member of the Administrative Committee between 1965 and 1969 and, from November 29, 1974, Chairman of the Committee on People's Councils and Administration of the State.

At the tenth party congress of the PCR from October 6 to 12, 1969 , Gere was also elected a member of the Central Committee's secretariat and was a member of it until November 28, 1974. In addition, from April 18, 1972 to 1974 was a member of the executive office and secretary of the National Council of the Socialist United Front FUS (Frontul Unității Socialiste) , the mass organization responsible for drawing up lists of candidates in elections. As a member of the Central Committee Secretariat, he was responsible for the party budget, publications and assemblies departments and the Red Cross.

Gere became a candidate for the Political Executive Committee of the Central Committee at the Eleventh Party Congress of the PCR from November 24 to 27, 1974 and was a member of this body until December 22, 1989. At the same time he became head of the Central Committee department for the party budget of the PCR in March 1975 and also served as President of the Council for Workers of Hungarian Nationality (Consiliului Oamenilor Muncii de Naționalitate Maghiară) from February 27, 1979 to 1984

honors and awards

Gere has received several awards for his longstanding services, including the Star of the People's Republic of Romania, Fifth Class (Ordinul Steaua Republicii Populare Române) in 1949 , the Order of Labor Third Class (Ordinul Muncii) in 1957, and the Order of August 23, Fourth Class (Ordinul August 23) , 1961 the medal 40th anniversary of the founding of the Romanian Communist Party (Medalia jubilară 40 de ani de la înfiinţarea Partidului Comunist Român) , 1962 the Order of Labor Second Class, 1964 the Star of the People's Republic of Romania Third Class, 1966 the Order Tudor Vladimirescu First 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) , 1979 the Order 23 August First Class and 1984 the Medalia A 40-a aniversare a revoluției de eliberare socialã şi naþionalã, antifascistã şi antiimperialistã .

Web link

• Biography in Consiliul Național pentru Studiera Arhivelor Securității. Membrii CC al PCR 1945-1989. Dicționar , p. 288 f.