Romanian politician
Ion N. C?m?r??escu
(January 27, 1882 – March 25, 1953) was a
Romanian
politician.
He was born in
Bucharest
, the son of Nicolae C?m?r??escu, who owned a 2,500 ha (6,200 acres) estate in the
B?r?gan Plain
.
[1]
He completed high school in his native city, and then studied at the
University of Paris
, taking a degree in law. After returning home, he practiced law in the Bucharest bar.
[2]
[1]
He married in 1909
Yvonne Blondel
[
ro
]
, the daughter of
Camille Blondel
[
ro
]
, the French ambassador to Romania; the couple would divorce in 1918.
[3]
Afterwards, he married Zoe, nee Bengescu (1896–1987), with whom he would have two sons, Ion I. (born 1927) and Nicolae (born 1929).
[4]
C?m?r??escu developed a keen interest in sports, being one of the founders (together with
George Valentin Bibescu
) of the
Romanian Automobile Club
[
ro
]
in 1904
[1]
and of the
Romanian Olympic Committee
on March 27, 1914.
[1]
[5]
He himself practiced several sports: tennis, horse riding, skiing, and
bobsleigh
, being in 1909 the first Romanian participant in a
Winter Olympics
(in the bobsled competition in
Stockholm
). He was the organizer of the first cycling tour of Romania in 1910, the year in which he also participated in the automobile competition on the Bucharest–
Targovi?te
route, which he won with an hourly average of 100 km/h (62 mph), a European record at the time.
[1]
C?m?r??escu began his political career in the
Conservative Party
, serving as cabinet director for
Constantin G. Dissescu
,
Religious Affairs and Public Instruction Minister
in 1906–1907. In 1908, he was a founding member of
Take Ionescu
's
Conservative-Democratic Party
.
[2]
In September 1913, after the
Second Balkan War
ended, he was named as
prefect
of the newly formed
Durostor County
. He served in this position until September 1916, after Romania entered
World War I
and
Bulgaria
regained the province.
[1]
He then served as liaison to the
Imperial Russian Army
in
Western Moldavia
. After the war, he was first elected to the
Assembly of Deputies
in 1919,
[2]
representing Durostor there until 1933.
[6]
He was named
Interior Minister
in Ionescu's short-lived government, which lasted from December 1921 to January 1922.
[2]
Later in 1922, C?m?r??escu joined the
Peasants' Party
.
[2]
When this evolved into the
National Peasants' Party
in 1926, he remained part of the new formation. From 1928 to 1930, he presided over the Union of Agricultural Chambers. When the
Little Entente
's Economic Council was created in 1933, he was selected as head of the Romanian delegation. In 1937, he was named by the
Agriculture Ministry
to the Higher Economic Council, joining the Higher Agricultural Council later that year.
[7]
He refused to collaborate with the
National Renaissance Front
royal dictatorship of
King
Carol II
.
[6]
In In the early 1940s he was living in a grand villa (which now bears his name), located near
Pia?a Unirii
, in downtown Bucharest.
[8]
In March 1949, the
communist regime
nationalized his farm in
Dalga
and assigned C?m?r??escu and his family to forced residence in
Curtea de Arge?
.
[1]
Arrested together with other former dignitaries by the
Securitate
in May 1950, he died at
Sighet Prison
three years later, and was buried in a mass grave.
[6]
[1]
Notes
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a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
Ionela St?nila (August 21, 2020).
"Boierul de la Dalga care a murit s?rac. Povestea trist? a lui Ion C?m?r??escu, mo?ier in B?r?gan, inchis de comuni?ti la Sighet"
.
Adev?rul
(in Romanian)
. Retrieved
April 6,
2024
.
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a
b
c
d
e
Grigore and ?erbu, p. 211
- ^
"Autochromiste amateur. Yvonne Blondel et son entourage"
.
www.ader-paris.fr
(in French). Maison de Ventes Ader
. Retrieved
April 7,
2024
.
- ^
Br?garu, Carmen (2023).
"Printre litera?i. Scrisori inedite primite sau trimise de Zoe C?m?r??escu"
.
Romania Literar?
(in Romanian). No. 36
. Retrieved
April 7,
2024
.
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"Romanian Olympism celebrates 103 years"
.
www.anocolympic.org
.
Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee
. March 29, 2017
. Retrieved
April 7,
2024
.
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a
b
c
(in Romanian)
Cicerone Ioni?oiu
[
ro
]
,
"Victimele terorii comuniste. Aresta?i, tortura?i, intemni?a?i, uci?i. Dic?ionar C"
- ^
Grigore and ?erbu, p. 212
- ^
"Vila C?m?r??escu"
.
Forbes Romania
. June 9, 2022
. Retrieved
April 7,
2024
.
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