Vintilă Brătianu

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Caricature of the politics of Vintilă Brătianu as Romanian finance minister

Vintilă Ion Constantin Brătianu (born  September 16 or September 28, 1867 in Florica or in Bucharest , Romania ; †  December 22, 1930 in Bucharest, Romania ) was a liberal Romanian politician.

Vintilă was the youngest of the three sons of Romanian Prime Minister Ion Constantin Brătianu and thus brother of Ionel Brătianu and Constantin "Dinu" Brătianu . First he received an engineering training and worked in the administration of the petroleum industry, in 1907 he became mayor of Bucharest. Like his father, his brother Ionel had been elected or appointed prime minister repeatedly since 1909 , and Vintilă had repeatedly been minister in his brother's cabinets since 1916. In August 1916 he was first Minister of War (and Romania entered World War I immediately afterwards ) and remained so until July 1917 (without being able to prevent the Romanian defeat and the German-Austrian-Hungarian-Bulgarian occupation of the country) thereafter Minister of Armaments until January 1918. From 1922 to 1926 and again from 1927 he was Minister of Finance. After Ionel's death, he succeeded him as prime minister and chairman of the National Liberal Party (Partidul Național Liberal), which her father had founded , but with which Vintilă lost the 1928 elections against Iuliu Maniu and his peasant party .

Vintilă Brătianu's policy was primarily aimed at protecting domestic finance capital from foreign monopoly capital; for this purpose he had initiated the so-called “By-ourselves” program in 1905 ( Romanian : Prin noi înşine! ). His family or party was a major shareholder in the Romanian National Bank . Vintilă's liberal economic policy course was continued after his death by Ion Duca , who followed him as party leader. Vintilă's nephew Gheorghe Brătianu (Ionel's son), however, then split off part of the party and represented a much more conservative or pro-fascist course with his own Partidul Național Liberal - Brătianu .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Christoph Kruspe, Jutta Arndt: Taschenlexikon Romania , page 46f. Bibliographical Institute Leipzig 1984
  2. ↑ a b c d Biographical encyclopedia on the history of Southeast Europe: Brătianu, Vintilă IC
  3. ^ Biographical lexicon on the history of Southeast Europe: Duca, Ion Gheorghe
personal data
SURNAME Brătianu, Vintilă
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brătianu, Vintilă Ion Constantion; Dela Cungra; Cungra, Dela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Florica , Romania
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1930
Place of death Bucharest , Romania