Grigore Preoteasa
| Grigore Preoteasa | |
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| Foreign Affairs Minister of Romania | |
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In office October 4, 1955 – July 14, 1957 |
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| Preceded by | Simion Bughici |
| Succeeded by | Ion Gheorghe Maurer |
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| Born |
August 25, 1915 Bucharest, Romania |
| Died | November 4, 1957 (aged 42) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Romanian Communist Party |
| Spouse(s) | Ecaterina Preoteasa |
| Children | George and Ilinca |
| Residence | Bucharest |
| Occupation | journalist |
Grigore Preoteasa (August 25, 1915 – November 4, 1957) was a Romanian communist activist, journalist, and politician, who served as Communist Romania's Minister of Foreign Affairs between October 4, 1955 and the time of his death.
Born in Bucharest as the son of a worker for the Romanian Railways (CFR), he attended the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters during the 1930s, and began his association with the Romanian Communist Party (PCR or PCdR) during the Griviţa Strike. First arrested the following year, he was repeatedly sentenced to prison terms (in Jilava, Doftana, Craiova, Miercurea-Ciuc, and Caracal).
After 1936, Preoteasa joined the leadership of the Democratic Students' Front (Frontul Studenţesc Democrat or Frontul Democratic Universitar), an anti-fascist organization created by the PCR in opposition to Iron Guard influence and headed by Gheorghe Rădulescu, Miron Constantinescu, and Constanţa Crăciun. He was consequently one of the most important cadres involved in agitprop, but, like his fellow activists Ion Popescu-Puţuri, Alexandru Iliescu, and Grigore Răceanu, appears to have been occasionally critical of guidelines imposed on the PCR by the Soviet Union and the Comintern.
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