Nicu Ceaușescu

Nicu Ceauşescu ( born September 1, 1951 in Bucharest, † September 26, 1996 in Vienna, Austria ) was a Romanian politician.

Life and political career

As the youngest child of the Romanian head of state Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena Ceauşescu Nicu was early chosen the " crown prince " and systematically built. So he quickly became head of the Communist Youth League in Romania and was from December 1983 to October 1987 Youth Minister of the country. End of 1987, Ceauşescu appointed his son to then Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party in Sibiu County and a candidate for the Politburo of the Party. As a next step, Nicu Ceauşescu should be appointed as foreign minister.

In the population of the offspring of the Ceausescu clan was feared for his escapades and hated at the same time. Nicu Ceauşescu loved luxury, like organized nocturnal carousing and did not shrink especially against brute force. Narrated are countless rapes and assaults on guests of nightclubs. During the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he gave as district secretary of Sibiu firing order to the security forces, resulting in the deaths of 91 people result. He gave instructions, " ... without call on the protesters to fire ". In the further course of the political upheavals in Romania he was arrested and later found in Bucharest before a tribunal. Like its sister Zoia Ceauşescu, he was sentenced; on 21 September 1990, he received a sentence of 20 years in prison.

Nicu Ceauşescu had been suffering at the time of his alcoholism. From prison, he was released in November 1992 due to cirrhosis of the liver, of which he died on 26 September 1996 at the General Hospital of Vienna.