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Petru Groza
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Constantin Ion Parhon
- Succeeded by
- Mihail Sadoveanu and Anton Moisescu (acting), Ion Gheorghe Maurer
- Monarch
- Michael I (1945–1947)
- President
- Constantin Ion Parhon , (1947–1952)
- Deputy
- Gheorghe Tătărescu , (1945–1947) , Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1948–1952)
- Prime minister
- Constantin Sănătescu , Nicolae Rădescu
- Born
- ( 1884-12-07 ) 7 December 1884, Bácsi, Hunyad County , Transleithania , Austria-Hungary (now Băcia , Romania)
- Died
- 7 January 1958 (1958-01-07) (aged 73), Bucharest , Romanian People's Republic
- Party
- Romanian National Party , (1918–1920) , People's Party , (1920–1933) , Ploughmen's Front , (1933–1953) , Independent , (1953–1958)
- Alma mater
- University of Budapest , Leipzig University
- Profession
- Lawyer
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Petru
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Romanian People's Republic
- Place of birth
- Băcia
- Place of death
- Bucharest
- Occupation
- banker
- Educated at
- Eötvös Loránd University
- Political party
- Ploughmen's Front
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Participant in
- Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia
- Image
- Petru Groza Anefo.jpg
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- 1958-01-07
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Encyclopedic overview
Petru Groza (7 December 1884 – 7 January 1958) was a Romanian politician, best known as the first Prime Minister of the Communist Party-dominated government under Soviet occupation during the early stages of the Communist regime in Romania, and later as the President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly (nominal head of state of Romania) from 1952 until his death in 1958.
Groza emerged as a public figure at the end of World War I as a notable member of the Romanian National Party (PNR), preeminent layman of the Romanian Orthodox Church, and then member of the Directory Council of Transylvania. In 1925–26 he served as Minister of State in the cabinet of Marshal Alexandru Averescu. In 1933, Groza founded a left-wing Agrarian organization known as the Ploughmen's Front (Frontul Plugarilor). The left-wing ideas he supported earned him the nickname The Red Bourgeois.
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