Petre Borilă

Petre Borilă

Petre Borilă (birth name: Iordan Drăgan Rusev ; born February 13, 1906 in Silistra , Bulgaria ; † January 2, 1973 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian politician of the Romanian Communist Party PMR (Partidul Muncitoresc Român) and from 1965 PCR (Partidul Comunist Român) who was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee (ZK) of the PMR between 1952 and 1965 . He was also lieutenant general and several times minister as well as vice prime minister and first vice prime minister in various governments of the People's Republic of Romania .

Life

Party official, Spanish Civil War and World War II

Borilă worked as an electrical mechanic after attending school and joined the Union of Young Communists UTCdR (Uniunea Tineretului Comunist din România) in 1922 . In 1924 he became a member of the then Communist Party PCR (Partidul Comunist din România) and was temporarily secretary of the Dobragea Regional Committee . He was arrested twice because of his political activities, the first for a month in Sofia and for three months in Košice .

He took part in the Spanish Civil War and was there in 1937 political and military representative of the Romanian volunteer contingent in the International Brigades . During the Second World War he was in the Soviet Union and took part in various military and political actions from Moscow . He was one of the founding members of the volunteer division " Tudor Vladimirescu " and acted as its deputy political commissioner.

MP and Minister

At the sixth party congress of the PMR from February 21 to 23, 1948, Borilă was elected a member of the PMR Central Committee for the first time and belonged to it for more than 21 years until August 12, 1969. In 1948 he became a member of the Grand National Assembly (Marea Adunare Națională) for the first time , where he briefly represented the constituency of Bucharest . At the same time he was from February 7, 1949 to March 20, 1950, Vice Minister for Defense.

At the same time he was also a member of the organization office of the Central Committee between January 24, 1950 and August 20, 1953. On March 20, 1950, he became Minister of Construction (Ministrul Construcțiilor) in the government of Prime Minister Petru Groza . As part of a government reshuffle , he then took over the office of President of the State Control Commission (Comisiei Controlului de Stat) on March 2, 1951 and held this position in the government of Groza's successor as Prime Minister, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej , until October 17, 1953 .

Vice Prime Minister and Member of the Politburo

Petre Borilă (front left) as representative of Romania at the IVth Party Congress of the SED (April 3, 1954)

At a plenum of the Central Committee of the PMR on May 27, 1952, Borilă, who was also a graduate of the party college, became a member of the Central Committee's Politburo and was a member of it until July 23, 1965. In 1952 he was again a member of the Grand National Assembly, where he represented the constituency of Stalin-Vest until 1957 and then between 1957 and 1965 the constituency of Steagul Roşu and most recently from 1965 to 1969 the constituency No. 1 Steagul Roşu . At the same time he was from October 17, 1953 to October 3, 1955 Minister for the Food Industry (Ministrul Industriei Alimentare) and from August 20, 1954 to October 3, 1955 also Vice-President of the Council of Ministers. On August 17, 1954, he was released as a lieutenant general from active military service in the armed forces ( Armata Română ) .

On October 3, 1955 Borilă was first vice-president of the Council of Ministers in the government of Prime Minister Chivu Stoica and then from March 19, 1957 to March 18, 1965 in the Stoica governments and Ion Gheorghe Maurer again Vice-President of the Council of Ministers. After leaving the Council of Ministers, he became a member of the Council of State (Consiliului de Stat) on March 19, 1965, and was confirmed in this position on December 9, 1967.

After leaving the Politburo, he was last elected at the ninth party conference of the PCR from July 19 to 24, 1965 as a member of the Executive Committee of the PCR Central Committee and was a member of it until August 12, 1969. Most recently he served as secretary of the PCR party committee in Constanța County .

honors and awards

For his many years of service Borila has won several awards and received among others in 1956 the title of Hero of Socialist Labor (Erou al Muncii Socialiste) , 1956, the gold medal "Sickle and Hammer" (Medalia de aur secera şi ciocanul) , the star of the People's Republic of Romania First Class (Ordinul Steaua Republicii Populare Române) , the Order for the Defense of the Fatherland First Class ( Apărarea Patriei ) , 1959 the Order of Labor Second Class (Ordinul Muncii) , 1959 the Order August 23, First Class (Ordinul August 23), 1961 the medal for the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Romanian Communist Party (Medalia jubilară 40 de ani de la înfiinţarea Partidului Comunist Român) , 1964 the medal for the 20th anniversary of the liberated fatherland (Medalia A XX-a aniversare a eliberării patriei) , 1964 the Medal for the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Armed Forces of the Socialist Republic of Romania (Medalia A XX-a aniversare a Zilei Armatei Republicii Socialiste România) and, most recently, in 1966 the Order of Tudor Vladimirescu First Class (Ordinul Tudor Vladimirescu) .

Web link

• Biography in Consiliul Național pentru Studiera Arhivelor Securității. Membrii CC al PCR 1945-1989. Dicționar , pp. 108-109