Valentin Ceaușescu

Valentin Ceauşescu ( born February 17, 1948) is a Romanian physicist, former sports official and son, and not reported as partially adopted son, of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and Elena married couple.

Life

Unlike other members of the Ceausescu clan Valentin did not look at political life in the communist Romania. He successfully completed a physics degree at the University of Bucharest. This study, he continued in London and then worked as a research assistant at the University of Bucharest.

In 1970 he married Iordana ( Dana ) Borila, the daughter of a party functionary. Nicolae Ceauşescu was expressly against this wedding and ordered even the subsequent emigration of Borila and in the meantime the children born from the marriage with Valentin to Canada on.

One of the great hobbies of Valentin Ceauşescu was the football. In the 1980s, he took over the management of Steaua Bucharest, which, in addition to numerous championships in the home, even the victory in the European Cup of Champions 1985/86 succeeded. Steaua Bucharest in Romania was at the time as a private association of Ceausescu and enjoyed special privileges.

After the outbreak of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 warrant was issued against him as. Against his siblings Zoia Ceauşescu Nicu Ceauşescu and He was arrested and sat nine months in custody, but was released because it could not be detected offenses. His extensive collection of books with pictures and some rarities, however, was confiscated by the Romanian state.