Vasile Marin

Vasile Marin (Bucharest, January 29 1904 - Majadahonda, January 13 1937) was a Romanian politician, public servant and lawyer. A member of the National Peasants' Party until 1932, Vasile Marin become a prominent member of the Iron Guard.

Biography

His law thesis, finished in 1932 at the University of Bucharest was entitled: "The Fascism".

Marin Vasile married, after asking for approval from Codreanu, Ana Maria Ropala in February 1933, the daughter of a Romanian army officer and a Jewish woman who converted Christianity. His wife was a medical doctor (Keene, pgs. 226-227).

In 1936-1937 along with Ion Moţa, led a force of Legionnaires into Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Moţa and Marin died (January 13 1937) during the first day of fighting at Majadahonda on the Madrid front. Their funerals in Bucharest (February 13 1937) were an immense and orderly procession (see Funerals of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin) attended by the Ministers of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Francisco Franco's Spain, representatives of Portugal, the Japan of the early Shōwa period, and delegates of the Polish Patriotic Youth.

A memorial monument was erected at Majadahonda, on September 13 1970, with support of Franco's government.

References

• Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain During the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 by Judith Keene and Gabriel Jackson (Leicester University Press, 2003)
• The Green Shirts and the Others: A History of Fascism in Hungary and Rumania by Nicholas M. Nagy-Talavera (Hoover Institution Press, 1970).
• "Romania" by Eugen Weber, in The European Right: A Historical Profile edited by Hans Rogger and Eugen Weber (University of California Press, 1965)
• "The Romanian Legionary's Mission in Spain" (Part III, A., xi Romania, 116.) in Fascism (Oxford Readers) edited by Roger Griffin (Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0192892495).
• Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890 by Philip Rees (Simon & Schuster, 1991, ISBN 0130893013).

External links

• Leadership of the Iron Guard and Culture and Cultural Policy at Claremont McKenna College.