Petre Bejan

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Petre Bejan around 1936
Petru Groza with Gheorghe Tătărescu (r.)

Petru or Petre N. Bejan (born  January 2, 1896 in Ploieşti , Romania ; †  September 6, 1978 in Bucharest , Romania) was a liberal Romanian politician and until 1948 the last chairman of the National Liberal Party (Partidul Național Liberal).

The son of Professor Nicolae Francisc Bejan (1862–1901) from Monor ( Bistrița-Năsăud district ) studied engineering and initially devoted himself to road and bridge construction. Since 1927 he was a member of the National Liberal Party led by Ionel Brătianu and Vintilă Brătianu , but after his death he joined the faction within the party led by Ion Duca and General Secretary Gheorghe Tătărescu and sat in parliament from 1933 onwards. In Tătărescu's government he was from May 1935 to February 1937 State Secretary to the Defense Minister Paul Angelescu and from February to November 1937 State Secretary to the Prime Minister. In the dispute between Dinu Brătianu and Tătărescu, he supported the latter from December 1944 in founding his own National Liberal Party (Partidul Național Liberal - Tătărescu) and was Minister for Industry and Trade in Petru Groza's post-war government, in the Tătărescu , from March 1945 to November 1946 Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. After the elections of November 1946, in which the Communist-led electoral bloc (National Front) belonging Tătărescu party was able to beat the Brătianu party, he sat again as a member of parliament. However, when Tătărescu opposed the increasing influence of the Romanian Communist Party, led by Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej , in Groza's coalition government and the socialist reorganization of Romania, he was forced to resign in November 1947.

What role Bejan, who apparently belonged to the pro-communist wing of the party, played in Tătărescu's overthrow is unclear or has been passed down differently. Tătărescu had previously criticized the political show trial against Iuliu Maniu in a letter , which Bejan described as a mistake. Tătărescu had thus drawn criticism himself, and with Tătărescu the other national liberal ministers also fell. After Tătărescu's fall in late November and early December 1947, a group of pro-communist dissidents or functionaries within the National Liberal Party and its Central Committee, allegedly above all those who feared for their own influential positions in the administration, elected Bejan as the new party chairman.

Tolerated by the communists, Bejan was allowed, after he had to distance himself from Tătărescu, to reorganize the party as Partidul Naional Liberal - Bejan in December 1947 and January 1948 , but was no longer accepted into the government. He was defeated by the National Front in the parliamentary elections in March 1948 and, under pressure from the Communists, had to dissolve the party at the end of 1948. He was finally arrested in May 1950 and taken to Sighet Prison, where Brătianu, Tătărescu and Maniu were also held. In July 1955, Bejan was released from Sighet, but remained under house arrest in the village of Măzăreni (Traian) near Brăila in the Bărăgan steppe until 1959 . He then worked as an engineer in a state farm.

Petre Bejan had two sons named Marius and Romulus. His brother-in-law was General Virgil I. Bădulescu (1882-1944).

annotation

  1. ↑ Occasionally also Petru NF Bejan , where "N" stands for Nicolae and "F" for Francisc , the mostly not written first names of his father or grandfather

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Misiunea 2/2015: Revista Centrului de Cercetare a Conlucrării Bisericii Ortodoxe cu Armata României “General Paul Teodorescu” , PDF page 84.
  2. ↑ a b c ARHIVA SOMEȘANĂ: Revistă Istorică Culturală , No. 21, PDF pages 334–345, Năsăud 1937
  3. ^ Narcis Dorin Ion: Gheorghe Tătărescu și Partidul Național Liberal (1944-1948) , page 94, Editura Tritonic, Bucharest 2003
  4. ↑ a b c d e Csaba Bekes, Laszlo Borhi, Peter Ruggenthaler, Ottmar Trasca: Soviet Occupation of Romania, Hungary, and Austria 1944 / 45–1948 / 49 , page 88. Central European University Press, Budapest 2015
  5. ↑ a b Christoph Kruspe, Jutta Arndt: Taschenlexikon Romania, page 151. Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1984
  6. ^ Stefan Creuzberger , Manfred Görtemaker : Synchronization under Stalin? The Development of the Parties in Eastern Europe 1944-1949 , pp. 161f. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2002
  7. ↑ a b Karel Kaplan : The political processes in Czechoslovakia 1948-1954 , page 29. Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1986
  8. ↑ Centrul de Istorie și Civilizație Europeană (Academia Română): Romanian Civilization , Volume 7. Page 42ff. Romanian Cultural Foundation (Fundația Culturală Română), Bucharest 1998
  9. ↑ a b Universitatea "Al. I. Cuza" din Iași: Analele științifice ale Universității "Al. I. Cuza" din Iași - Istorie, volumes 51–53, page 339. Universitatea, Iași 2005
  10. ↑ Famous Why: Petre N. Bejan
personal data
SURNAME Bejan, Petre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bejan, Petre; Bejan, Petre N .; Bejan, Petre NF; Bejan, Petre Nicolae Francisc; Bejan, Petru
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Ploieşti , Romania
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1978
Place of death Bucharest