Manea Mănescu
Manea Mănescu | |
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50thPrime Minister of Romania | |
In office 27 February 1974 – 29 March 1979 | |
President | Nicolae Ceaușescu |
Preceded by | Ion Gheorghe Maurer |
Succeeded by | Ilie Verdeț |
Vice President of the State Council | |
In office 1969–1972 | |
President | Nicolae Ceaușescu |
Preceded by | Constanța Crăciun |
Succeeded by | Miron Constantinescu |
In office 1983–1989 | |
President | Nicolae Ceaușescu |
Preceded by | Ilie Verdeț |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Chairman of the State Planning Committee | |
In office 13 October 1972 – 27 February 1974 | |
Prime Minister | Ion Gheorghe Maurer |
Preceded by | Maxim Berghianu |
Succeeded by | Emil Drăgănescu |
Minister of Finance | |
In office 3 October 1955 – 19 March 1957 | |
Prime Minister | Chivu Stoica |
Preceded by | Dumitru Petrescu |
Succeeded by | Aurel Vijoli |
Personal details | |
Born | Brăila,Kingdom of Romania | 9 August 1916
Died | 27 February 2009 Bucharest,Romania | (aged 92)
Political party | Romanian Communist Party |
Spouse |
Maria Munteanu
(m.1948; died 2005) |
Alma mater | Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies |
Manea Mănescu(9August 1916 – 27February 2009) was aRomaniancommunistpolitician who served asPrime Ministerfor five years (27February 1974 – 29March 1979) duringNicolae Ceaușescu'sCommunist regime.
His father was a Communist Party veteran fromPloiești,who in the early 1920s supported the transformation of theSocialist Partyinto theRomanian Communist Party(PCR). Mănescu joined the PCR in 1938, while he was a student at theAcademy of Economic Studiesin Bucharest.[1]In 1944, after the23 August coup d'état,he worked together withNicolae Ceaușescu,his future brother-in-law, in theUnion of Communist Youth.In 1951, Mănescu was appointed as head of the Department of Economics at theUniversity of Bucharestand Director General of the Central Directorate of Statistics.[2]He served as Finance Minister from 1955 until 1957.
In December 1967 he was appointed Chairman of the Economic Council. He was promoted to full membership of the Executive Committee of the PCR in December 1968 and, after holding various positions in the party and government, he became Prime Minister in March 1974, a position he held until 1979, when he retired, reportedly due to ill health.[3] Also in 1974 he became titular member of theRomanian Academy.[4]
Mănescu stayed close to Ceaușescu and his wife,Elena Ceaușescuup until theRomanian Revolutionof 1989. He left the Central Committee's building byhelicopter together with themon 22 December, though he had to disembark atSnagovdue to too much weight in the craft. He was arrested shortly afterward and taken to the airbase atDeveselu,where he was kept in detention until 31 December. Tried in early 1990 together withEmil Bobu,Ion Dincă,andTudor Postelnicu,Mănescu was sentenced to life in prison for participation in genocide; on appeal, his sentence was reduced to 10 years. He served two years in prison, and was set free on 12 November 1992 due to poor health.[4]Because of his conviction, he was stripped of his membership in the Romanian Academy.[5]
He died in 2009, aged 92,[1]and was buried atBellu CemeteryinBucharest.[5]
Family[edit]
Mănescu's wife, Maria Munteanu Mănescu, was a well known pediatrician. In December 1973, she was named Vice Chairman of the Romanian Red Cross Society. She was also named a member of the (Romanian) National Council of Women in April 1978. It is not clear if the Mănescus had any children.
References[edit]
- ^abVladimir Tismăneanu."Former Communist Prime Minister Manea Mănescu Died: Unrepentant Stalinist, Dogmatic Marxist Economist".Retrieved6 June2020.
- ^Political background of Manea MănescuArchived2011-07-17 at theWayback Machine
- ^Biodata
- ^abLaurențiu Ungureanu; Radu Eremia (6 February 2016)."Apostolii Epocii de Aur, episodul #7. Manea Mănescu, ultimul om care i-a sărutat mâna lui Nicolae Ceaușescu".Adevărul(in Romanian).Retrieved6 June2020.
- ^ab"A murit Manea Mănescu, fost premier al Romaniei comuniste".HotNews(in Romanian). 27 February 2009.Retrieved6 June2020.
External links[edit]
- René de Flers (27 July 1984)."Biographical Sketches of the Ceaușescu Clan".Radio Free Europe.Archived fromthe originalon 2011-07-17.Retrieved6 June2020.
- 1916 births
- 2009 deaths
- Politicians from Brăila
- People of the Romanian revolution
- Prime ministers of Romania
- Deputy prime ministers of Romania
- State Council of Romania
- Ministers of finance of Romania
- Romanian Communist Party politicians
- Romanian politicians convicted of crimes
- Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Bucharest
- Academic staff of the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
- Prisoners and detainees of Romania
- Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Romania
- Burials at Bellu Cemetery