Constantin Agiu
Constantin Agiu | |
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President of the Great National Assembly | |
In office June 1948 – December 1948 | |
Preceded by | Gheorghe Apostol |
Succeeded by | Constantin Pârvulescu |
Personal details | |
Born | Cetate, Dolj, Kingdom of Romania | 5 November 1891
Died | 19 February 1961 Gura Humorului, People's Republic of Romania | (aged 69)
Political party | Communist Party of Romania |
Constantin Agiu (November 5, 1891, Dolj County – February 19, 1961, Gura Humorului) was a Romanian Communist politician; he was also President of the Great National Assembly, the unicameral legislature of the Romanian People's Republic.
Biography
[edit]He was a carpenter. A member of the Communist Party of Romania (PCR), he was noted by Ștefan Foriș and appointed a party instructor for Oltenia (1941), and from June 1943 he was a member of the Romanian Communist Party Central Committee.[citation needed] During World War II, together with Foriș, Remus Koffler, Iosif Rangheț, Constantin Pîrvulescu, and Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, he belonged to the small clandestine party faction that was active inside Romania.[1] Even after April 4, 1944 (when Foriș was removed from the office of general secretary), he held important positions. For example, he was in charge of revenue control by the Central Financial Commission of the PCR, or conducting negotiations with the PSD for the realization of the Unique Workers' Front.
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Agiu served as Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Agriculture from March 6, 1945 to April 14, 1948 in the governments headed by Petru Groza, and served as the President of the Great National Assembly from 11 June to 27 December 1948. In 1958, he joined the leadership committee of the Association of Former Inhabitants and deported anti-fascist politicians.
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References
[edit]- ^ Dennis Deletant, Romania under Communist Rule, p. 26. Center for Romanian Studies, 1999, ISBN 978-97-398-3928-0