Ioan Totu
Ioan Totu | |
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Nicolae Ceauşescu | |
President of the State Planning Committee | |
In office November 4, 1989 – December 22, 1989 | |
President | Nicolae Ceaușescu |
Personal details | |
Born | Otetelișu, Vâlcea County, Kingdom of Romania | May 14, 1931
Died | April 21, 1992 Bucharest, Romania | (aged 60)
Cause of death | Suicide by hanging |
Political party | Romanian Communist Party |
Profession | Economist |
Ioan Totu (Romanian pronunciation:
Life and political career
Born in Otetelișu, Vâlcea County, Totu attended the Commercial High School in Craiova from 1949 to 1950 and then studied at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, which he graduated in 1953. After being an assistant at the Nicolae Bălcescu Institute for Agricultural Sciences between 1953 and 1954, he became a lecturer at the Chair of Political Sciences and Secretary of the Union of Communist Youth Committee at the Institute for Mining. He was also a propagandist for the Communist Party Committee in Sector 1 of Bucharest and was accepted as a member of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) in 1955. In 1957 he moved to the University of Bucharest as a lecturer. After completing a course at the Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy in 1958, he became inspector of the department for teaching social sciences at the Ministry of Education and later, in 1962, instructor of the Central Committee's Department of Education, before becoming Head of the Higher Education Section of the Central Committee of the PCR in 1967.[1]
In the
Totu was a member of the Romanian Politburo. He also served as the head of the Romanian mission to East European Common Market (CEMA). He was generally known for his toughness, especially in his comments to the
Totu was appointed Vice Prime Minister of Romania on November 3, 1982 and served in this post until March 28, 1985.[4] On August 26, 1986 he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania replacing a less experienced diplomat Ilie Văduva.[5][6] As Minister of Foreign Affairs, Totu re-established Romania's relations with Israel with the purpose to expand trade and economic relations, and to play an international role in the Middle East peace process.[2] His term in office ended on November 2, 1989 and he was appointed the President of the State Planning Committee on November 4 which he held until December 22, 1989.[7]
Imprisonment and death
Totu was arrested on January 10, 1990, days after the
See also
References
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