Mihai Antonescu

Mihai Antonescu
Vice President of the Council of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 29 June 1941 – 23 August 1944
Monarch	Mihai I
Prime Minister	Ion Antonescu
Preceded by	Ion Antonescu
Succeeded by	Grigore Niculescu-Buzești
Personal details
Born	18 November 1904 Nucet, Dâmbovița
Died	1 June 1946 (age 41) near Jilava (executed by firing squad)
Resting place	unknown
Nationality	Romanian
Cabinet	Antonescu

Mihai Antonescu (18 November 1904 – 1 June 1946) was a Romanian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister during World War II.

Born in Nucet, Dâmbovița County, went to school in Pitești, and then at the Saint Sava National College in Bucharest. From 1922 to 1926 he attended the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest. Antonescu made his living as an attorney before becoming Prime Minister Ion Antonescu’s (to whom he was not related) Minister of Propaganda in 1940. Antonescu was initially not an extremist or supporter of the Iron Guard, whose leaders held prominent positions in Ion Antonescu’s government in 1940-1941 (see National Legionary State); in the 1930s, he was a member of the National Liberal Party-Brătianu.

As minister, he drifted to the far right, and established contacts with the German Nazi Party. Antonescu subsequently became one of Ion Antonescu’s most trusted advisors, especially when the Iron Guard's leader, Horia Sima (who was also deputy prime minister), became increasingly uncooperative. He was effective in censoring governmental critics and enforcing blatant Anti-Semitism in the media.

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