Siguranța
Siguranța ( Romanian for security ) was the secret police in the Kingdom of Romania , which existed from 1921 to 1944. Their main aim was to fight against opposition parties and organizations. According to its name, the Siguranța already existed in old Romania. A Romanian security police had been established earlier after the Romanian government struggled to suppress the peasant uprising of 1907 . Its directors were from 1924 to 1940 Mihail Moruzov (1887–1940), from 1940 to 1944 Eugen Cristescu (1895–1950). During the Second World War , its members were sent to Bukovina , Bessarabia and Transnistria to fight the partisan movement . Its structures were changed several times, notably during the coup on August 23, 1944 . According to incomplete information, more than 75,000 people have been arrested by it in the course of its existence.
Regarding the situation in Bucovina, for example, the historian Dietmar Müller points out that the army command as well as the gendarmerie and the Siguranţa could legally intervene on a massive scale in all areas of the social life of the minorities.
With the proclamation of the Romanian People's Republic in 1948, the Siguranța was dissolved and its tasks were transferred to the Securitate ("Department for State Security").
See also
- Romanian Information Service / Gestapo
- Jilava massacre (English)
- National Legionary State (Romanian)
References and footnotes
- ↑ cf. Paul Riege : The police of all countries in words and pictures: Contributions to the comparative consideration of police conditions at home and abroad. Metro-Verlag, Dresden, p.283
- ↑ Article «Siguranza» in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia
- ↑ Reviews by Dietmar Müller (Berlin) - oei.fu-berlin.de - accessed on March 17, 2019