Octavian Groza
Octavian Victor Groza (born March 18, 1923 in Deva , Hunedoara district ; † November 3, 2000 ibid) was a Romanian politician of the Romanian Communist Party PCR (Partidul Comunist Român) , who between 1968 and 1972 was Minister of Electrical Energy and of Was ambassador to Austria from 1976 to 1985 .
Life
Hydraulic engineer, minister and ambassador
Groza, a son of the first Romanian communist prime minister (1947 to 1952) Petru Groza , attended the theoretical grammar school in his native Deva from 1934 to 1942 and then began studying mathematics at the scientific faculty of the Timișoara Polytechnic , but switched to a degree in 1943 in civil engineering to the faculty there. During his studies in 1945 he joined the Romanian Communist Party PCdR (Partidul Comunist din România) founded on May 8, 1921 . In October 1946 he continued his studies at the Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering of the Institute for Civil Engineering in Moscow and graduated in May 1952 as a hydraulic engineer . During his stay there he was responsible for the Romanian students. After his return to Romania, he worked between May 1952 and November 1957 as an engineer building the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin hydropower plant at the Izvorul Muntelui reservoir near Bicaz . During this time he completed a course in Czechoslovakia in 1954 and was most recently a member of the party committee of the hydropower plant and the party committee of Bacau since 1955 .
In November 1957 Groza moved to the Study and Project Institute for Hydropower in Bucharest as head of section and became director of this institute in 1962. In addition, he continued his involvement in party work and in 1964 became a member of both the Bucharest District 1 May Party Committee and the Bucharest City Party Committee . On September 10, 1965, he became Deputy Minister for Electrical Energy and has been a member of the State Prize Committee since June 1, 1966 and the State Committee for Water since May 17, 1967. On July 10, 1968 he succeeded Emil Drăgănescu as Minister of Electrical Energy (Ministrul energiei electrice) in the fourth cabinet of Prime Minister Ion Gheorghe Maurer and held this post until he was replaced by Constantin Băbălău on December 18, 1972. He was also on August 12, 1969 candidate of the Central Committee of the PCR and kept this function until the XII. PCR party conference on November 23, 1979 .
On December 18, 1972, Groza became first vice-president of the National Council for Scientific Research in the fifth Maurer cabinet and remained in this post until November 16, 1976. In addition, on June 3, 1974, he became a member of the Central Council for the Labor Control of Economic and Social Activities and on June 26, 1974 a member of the Central Party and State Commission for Spatial Planning in Counties, Towns and Municipalities. He was last appointed ambassador to Austria on November 16, 1976 and held this position until May 16, 1985.
honors and awards
Groza has received several awards for his services, including the Ordinul Muncii (Order of Labor) Second Class (1955), Ordinul Muncii First Class (1961), Ordinul Steaua Republicii Socialiste România Fourth Class (1966) and Ordinul 23 August ( Order of August 23 ) Third Class (1971)
literature
- 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. 303 f. ( PDF; 12.1 MB ).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Groza, Octavian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Groza, Octavian Victor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian politician (PCR) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Deva , Hunedoara County |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 3, 2000 |
| Place of death | Deva , Hunedoara County |