First Maurer cabinet

First Maurer cabinet

100th Cabinet of Romania
Date formed21 March 1961 (1961-03-21)
Date dissolved17 March 1965 (1965-03-17)
People and organisations
President of the Presidium of the Great National AssemblyGheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
President of the Council of MinistersIon Gheorghe Maurer (PCR)
First Vice President of the Council of MinistersGheorghe Apostol (PCR)
No. of ministers41
Total no. of members55
Member partiesPCR
Status in legislatureGreat National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Romania
History
Election1961
Legislature term4th Great National Assembly
PredecessorStoica II
SuccessorMaurer II

The First Maurer cabinet was the government of Romania from March 21, 1961 to March 17, 1965.

Changes in the government

  • February 27, 1962 - The Ministry of Construction Industry was established.
  • April 30, 1962 - The Ministry of Commerce was reorganized, creating the Ministry of Internal Commerce and the Ministry of External Commerce.
  • May 31, 1962 - The Ministry of Agriculture was abolished, and the Superior Council of Agriculture was established.
  • June 9, 1962 - The Ministry of Education and Culture was reorganized, creating the Ministry of Education and the State Committee for Culture and Arts.
  • October 31, 1963 - The Ministry of Metallurgy and Machine Construction was reorganized, establishing the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry and the Ministry of Machine Construction.

Composition

Ion Gheorghe Maurer (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)

Vice Presidents of the Council of Ministers

Gheorghe Apostol (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
Emil Bodnăraș[1] (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
Petre Borilă[2][3] (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
Alexandru Drăghici (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
Alexandru Moghioroș (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
Alexandru Bârlădeanu[4][5] (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
Gheorghe Gaston Marin (September 29, 1962 - March 17, 1965)
Gheorghe Rădulescu (October 31, 1963 - March 17, 1965)
Constantin Tuzu (October 31, 1963 - March 17, 1965)

Ministers

Alexandru Drăghici[6] (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
Corneliu Mănescu (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
  • Minister of Justice
Ioan Constant Manoliu (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
Leontin Sălăjan[7] (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
Aurel Vijoli (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
  • Minister of Metallurgy and Machine Construction (on October 31, 1963, the ministry was reorganized, establishing the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry and the Ministry of Machine Construction)
Constantin Tuzu (March 21, 1961 - October 31, 1963)
  • Minister of Metallurgical Industry
Ion Marinescu (October 31, 1963 - March 17, 1965)
  • Minister of Machine Construction
Gheorghe Rădoi (October 31, 1963 - March 17, 1965)
  • Minister of Mines and Electric Power
Bujor Almășan (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
  • Minister of Petroleum and Chemical Industry
Mihail Florescu (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
  • Minister of Construction Industry
Dumitru Mosora (February 27, 1962 - March 17, 1965)
  • Minister of Light Industry
Alexandru Sencovici (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
  • Minister of Agriculture
Ion Cosma (March 21, 1961 - April 30, 1962)
Dumitru Diaconescu (April 30 - May 31, 1962)
  • President of the Superior Council of Agriculture (with ministerial rank)
Mihai Dalea (May 31, 1962 - March 17, 1965)
  • Minister of Food Industry
Janos Fazekas (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
  • Minister of Forestry Economics
Mihai Suder (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
  • Minister of Commerce (on April 30, 1962, the ministry was divided into the Ministry of External Commerce and the Ministry of Internal Commerce)
Gheorghe Rădulescu (March 21, 1961 - April 30, 1962 - March 17, 1965)
  • Minister of External Commerce
Gheorghe Rădulescu[8] (April 30, 1962 - October 31, 1963)
Victor Ionescu (October 31, 1963 - December 22, 1964)
Mihail Petri (December 22, 1964 - March 17, 1965)
  • Minister of Internal Commerce
Mihail Levente (April 30, 1962 - March 17, 1965)
  • Minister of Transport and Telecommunications
Dumitru Simulescu (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
  • Minister of Health and Social Provisions
Voinea Marinescu (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
Ilie G. Murgulescu (March 21, 1961 - April 16, 1963)
Ștefan Bălan (April 16, 1963 - March 17, 1965)

Minister Secretaries of State

  • President of the State Committee for Culture and Arts (with ministerial rank)
Constanța Crăciun[9] (June 9, 1962 - March 17, 1965)
  • President of the State Planning Committee (with ministerial rank)
Gheorghe Gaston Marin (March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965)
  • President of the Committee for Local Administration Issues (with ministerial rank)
Mihai Gere (December 10, 1961 - March 17, 1965)

Sources

  • (in Romanian) Final Report of the Presidential Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania
  • Luminița Banu, Florian Banu, "Securitatea, bancherul și vânătoarea — o acțiune de 'lobby cinegetic' în anii '70", in Caietele CNSAS, Vol. VIII, Issue 1, 2015, pp. 213–266.
  • Florica Dobre, Liviu Marius Bejenaru, Clara Cosmineanu-Mareș, Monica Grigore, Alina Ilinca, Oana Ionel, Nicoleta Ionescu-Gură, Elisabeta Neagoe-Pleșa, Liviu Pleșa, Membrii C.C. al P.C.R. (1945–1989). Dicționar. Bucharest: Editura Enciclopedică, 2004. ISBN 973-45-0486-X
  • Horia Dumitrescu, "Ștefan Voitec și Țara Vrancei", in Cronica Vrancei, Vol. I, 2000, pp. 313–330.
  • (in Romanian) Constantin Grigore and Miliana Șerbu, Miniștrii de interne (1862–2007) Archived 2020-10-17 at the Wayback Machine, Editura Ministerului Internelor și Reformei Administrative, Bucharest, 2007. ISBN 978-97374-504-8-7
  • Stelian Neagoe - "History of Romanian governments from the beginning - 1859 to our days - 1995" (Ed. Machiavelli, Bucharest, 1995)
  • RompresArchived 2007-02-11 at the Wayback Machine
  • Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism, University of California Press, 2003, ISBN 0-52-023747-1

References

  1. ^ Final Report, p. 43 n. 32
  2. ^ Tismăneanu, Stalinism..., p.293
  3. ^ George H. Hodos, Show Trials: Stalinist Purges in Eastern Europe, 1948-1954, Praeger/Greenwood, Westport, 1987, p.99. ISBN 0-275-92783-0
  4. ^ Bogdan Cristian Iacob, "Avatars of the Romanian Academy and the Historical Front: 1948 versus 1955", in Vladimir Tismăneanu (ed.), Stalinism Revisited: The Establishment of Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe, p.273. Central European University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-9639776630
  5. ^ (in Romanian) Dan Drăghia, Biography at the 1990 Mineriad section of the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile site; accessed April 3, 2012
  6. ^ Grigore and Șerbu, p. 311; S. Neagoe, p. 249
  7. ^ (in Romanian) Galeria Şefilor SMG, at the Romanian Defense Ministry site; accessed April 2, 2012
  8. ^ Banu & Banu, p. 246; Dobre et al., p. 505
  9. ^ "Nomenclatura - membrii I (A - C)". Comunismul în România - (in Romanian).
Preceded by Cabinet of Romania
March 21, 1961 - March 17, 1965 		Succeeded by