Voitec, Ştefan
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Name (Latin)
Voitec, Ştefan
Date of birth
1900-06-19
Date of death
1984-12-04
Place of birth
Corabia (Romania)
Place of death
Bucharest (Romania)
Associated country
Romania
Occupation
Politicians
Associated Language
rum
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Dobrogeanu-Gherea, C. Opere complete, 1976- :v. 8, t.p. verso (Ștefan Voitec)
- Voitec, Ştefan:(A handwritten letter from 1946 in ARC. 4* 1976 - Collection of Jewish Romanian Intellectuals' Private Papers.)
- Wikipedia February 9th, 2017:"Ştefan Voitec (June 19, 1900 - December 4, 1984) was a Romanian socialist and communist journalist, politician, and statesman of Communist Romania. Born in Corabia, Voitec and was active in the Socialist Party of Romania, the Social Democratic Party (PSDR), and, after 1928, in Constantin Popovici's Unitary Socialist Party.Trained as a schoolteacher, he also worked on PSDR newspapers, before retiring from political life during World War II and Ion Antonescu's dictatorship (see Romania during World War II). An advocate of the union between the PSDR and the Romanian Communist Party (PCR), he was Minister of Education - appointed with communist backing in Constantin Sănătescu's post-war government, and remaining in office through subsequent cabinets until the official disestablishment of the Kingdom of Romania. His mandates were marked by an officially-endorsed Stalinist campaign in education, as well as by measures taken to remove and replace non-communist teachers and professors. In 1946-1947, he was a member of the Gheorghe Tătărescu-led Romanian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, and, in fact, one of the signatories of the Peace Treaty with Romania. Together with Lothar Rădăceanu, he led the wing of the PSDR that called for an alignment with PCR policies, causing the split with Constantin Titel Petrescu's Independent Socialist Party in March 1946; the main PSDR was absorbed by the PCR in November 1947. Together with Constantin Ion Parhon, Mihail Sadoveanu, Gheorghe Stere, and Ion Niculi, Voitec was a member of the People's Republic Presidium - created by Law No. 363 after the forced abdication of King Michael I on December 30, 1947. He served as Deputy Prime Minister in Petru Groza's second cabinet, but was sidelined after falling out of favor with the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Returning to prominence after 1953, he occupied important positions ...".