Chivu Stoica
President of the State Council
In office
24 March 1965 – 9 December 1967
Prime MinisterIon Gheorghe Maurer
Preceded byGheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Succeeded byNicolae Ceaușescu
President of the Council of Ministers
In office
21 October 1955 – 21 March 1961
PresidentPetru Groza
Ion Gheorghe Maurer
DeputyEmil Bodnăraș
Preceded byGheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Succeeded byIon Gheorghe Maurer
First Vice President of the Council of Ministers
In office
20 August 1954 – 4 October 1955
Prime MinisterGheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Succeeded byEmil Bodnăraș
Minister of Industry[a]
In office
15 April 1948 – 31 May 1952
Prime MinisterPetru Groza
Succeeded byCarol Loncear
Personal details
Born(1908-08-08)8 August 1908
Smeeni, Buzău County, Kingdom of Romania
Died18 February 1975(1975-02-18) (aged 66)
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania
Cause of deathSuicide by firearm
Political partyRomanian Communist Party
a. ^ Minister of Metallurgy and Chemical Industries from 23 November 1949

Chivu Stoica (the family name being Chivu;[1][2] 8 August 1908 – 18 February 1975) was a leading Romanian Communist politician, who served as 48th Prime Minister of Romania.

Early life

Stoica was born in Smeeni, Buzău County, the sixth child of a ploughman.[3] At age 12 he left home, and started working as an apprentice at Căile Ferate Române, the state railway corporation. In 1921, he moved to Bucharest, where he worked as a boilermaker at the Vulcan, Lemaître, and Malaxa companies. There he met Gheorghe Vasilichi, who recruited him into the Communist Party (PCR).[3]

Career

Stoica giving a speech in Berlin, 18 January 1963

In spring 1931, Stoica started working for the Grivița Railway Yards, where he met Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Vasile Luca, and Constantin Doncea; together, they started organizing a strike.[3] On 20 August 1934, he was sentenced to 15 years of prison for his role in the Grivița Strike of 1933.[4] At the Târgu Jiu internment camp, he was close to Gheorghiu-Dej, who may have wanted Stoica to be his successor as General Secretary.

He was a member of the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party from 1945 to 1975, and a member of the Politburo. He was Prime Minister of Romania between 1955 and 1961 and as President of the State Council of Romania (de facto head of state) from 1965 until 1967.

Death

His death, by a Holland & Holland hunting rifle bullet to the head, was ruled a suicide.[5][6]

Family

His first wife was Ecaterina (b. Klein),[2] and his second one was Maria (b. Manolescu), an engineer, with whom he had a daughter.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Tismăneanu, Vladimir. "Balta fetidă a minciunii: Nepmanul Ponta intre bolșevism și peronism" (in Romanian). Retrieved June 12, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Dosarele de cadre ale Ceaușeștilor" (in Romanian). December 18, 2013. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 (in Romanian) Paula Mihailov Chiciuc, "Din înaltul ordin al partidului" Archived 2014-03-02 at the Wayback Machine, Jurnalul Național, July 18, 2006
  4. ↑ (in Romanian) Stelian Tănase, Dej – omul resentimentului Archived 2007-10-10 at the Wayback Machine, from Magazin Istoric
  5. ↑ Betea, Lavinia (January 15, 2007). "Zvonurile 'epocii de aur'" ["Rumors from the 'Golden Age']. Jurnalul Național (in Romanian). Archived from the original on August 3, 2021. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
  6. 1 2 Betea, Lavinia (21 May 2013). ""Sinuciderea" lui Chivu Stoica, consilierul Pacepa și traducătorul "savantei" Lenuța". Adevărul. Retrieved June 12, 2014.

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