Emil Bodnăraș

Emil Bodnaras ( born February 10, 1904 in Iaslovat; † January 24, 1976 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian politician, member of the Romanian Communist Party ( RCP ), and from 1947 to 1955 Romanian defense minister. In 1954, he was also Deputy Chairman of the State Council.

Life

Emil Bodnaras had been interested in early for the ideas of communism and emigrated in 1932 to the USSR. With this move, he finished at the same time a course already taken military training and officer's career in the Romanian army.

Faced with the actual conditions in the war-torn Soviet Union, he resigned and lived in Germany, in Switzerland, and Czechoslovakia. Upon his return to Romania, in 1934, he was arrested and sentenced to ten years of forced labor. As a result, he was contacted by imprisoned cadres of the Romanian Communist Party and later entry, prepared in this party, which took place in 1940.

As a leading member of the group that organized the overthrow of the conducted by Ion Antonescu Romanian fascist government on April 23, 1944, Bodnaras influence and recognition among the party leaders of the RCP acquired. This paved the way to him after the war in the circle around Gheorghiu -Dej and the highest party and government offices. From 27 December 1947 to October 3, 1955 Bodnaras who had not completed his military training was, Romanian Minister of Defense. From 1954 to 1957 he was also elected Deputy Council of State.

Honors

In communist Romania Milişăuţi and Bădeuţi formed together with the adjacent town Iaslovat a church that was named after the recently deceased functionary Emil Bodnaras 1976. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, carried out in 1996 to rename the in Milişăuţi.

In his capacity as minister of a fraternal socialist state, he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union during a state visit in Moscow.