Chivu Stoica
| Chivu Stoica | |
|---|---|
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| President of the State Council | |
| In office 24 March 1965 – 9 December 1967 | |
| Prime Minister | Ion Gheorghe Maurer |
| Preceded by | Ion Gheorghe Maurer (Acting) Ştefan Voitec (Acting) Avram Bunaciu (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Nicolae Ceauşescu (as President of Romania) |
| Prime Minister of Romania | |
| In office 21 October 1955 – 21 March 1961 | |
| President | Petru Groza Mihail Sadoveanu (Acting) Anton Moisescu (Acting) Ion Gheorghe Maurer |
| Preceded by | Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej |
| Succeeded by | Ion Gheorghe Maurer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 August 1908 Smeeni, Romania |
| Died | 18 February 1975 (aged 66) Bucharest, Romania |
| Political party | Communist Party |
Chivu Stoica (8 August 1908 – 18 February 1975) was a leading Romanian Communist politician.
Stoica was born in Smeeni, Buzău County, the sixth child of a ploughman.[1] 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, Lemaitre, and Malaxa companies. There he met Gheorghe Vasilichi, who recruited him into the Communist Party.[1]
In spring 1931, Stoica started working for the Griviţa Railway Yards, where he met Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Vasile Luca, and Constantin Doncea; together, they started organizing a strike.[1] On August 20, 1934, he was sentenced to 15 years of prison for his role in the Griviţa Strike of 1933.[2] At Târgu Jiu prison, 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 Worker's Party from 1945 to 1975, and of the Politburo. He served as 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.
In his later years, he fell out of favour with Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena. His death, by a hunting rifle bullet to the head, was ruled a suicide.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 (Romanian) Paula Mihailov Chiciuc, "Din înaltul ordin al partidului", Jurnalul Naţional, July 18, 2006
- ↑ (Romanian) Stelian Tănase, Dej - omul resentimentului, from Magazin Istoric
- ↑ (Romanian) http://www.iiccr.ro/ro/istoria_comunismului_in_romania/biografiile_nomenklaturii/#Stoica%20Chivu
- (Romanian) Final Report of the Presidential Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania, pp. 649–50
- (Romanian) Lavinia Betea, "Zvonurile 'epocii de aur'" ("Rumours from the 'Golden Age'"), Jurnalul Naţional, January 15, 2007
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej |
Prime Minister of Romania 1955–1961 |
Succeeded by Ion Gheorghe Maurer |
| Preceded by Ion Gheorghe Maurer Acting |
President of the Council of State of Romania 1965–1967 |
Succeeded by Nicolae Ceauşescu |
| Preceded by Ştefan Voitec Acting | ||
| Preceded by Avram Bunaciu Acting | ||
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