First Stoica cabinet explained

Cabinet Name:	First Stoica cabinet
Cabinet Number:	98th
Jurisdiction:	Romania
Flag:	Flag of Romania.svg
Flag Border:	true
Government Head Title:	President of the Council of Ministers
Government Head:	Chivu Stoica (PCR)
Deputy Government Head Title:	First Vice President of the Council of Ministers
Deputy Government Head:	Emil Bodnăraș (PCR) Petre Borilă (PCR) Alexandru Drăghici (PCR) Miron Constantinescu (PCR)
State Head Title:	President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly
State Head:	Petru Groza
Members Number:	41
Total Number:	55
Political Parties:	PCR
Legislature Status:	Great National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Romania
Election:	1952
Legislature Term:	2nd Great National Assembly
Successor:	Stoica II

The First Stoica cabinet was the government of Romania from October 4, 1955 to March 19, 1957.

Ministerial changes in the government

- January 10, 1956 - The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry was divided as follows: Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Forestry and Ministry of State Farming.

- January 10, 1956 - The Ministry of Wood, Paper and Pulp Industry was reorganized, becoming the Ministry of Wood Industry.

- January 21, 1957 - The Ministry of Health merged with the Ministry of Social Welfare to form the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.

- January 21, 1957 - The Ministry of Collections was abolished.

- February 19, 1957 - The Ministry of Communal Households and Local Industry was abolished.

Composition

Source:^[1]

• Presidents of the Council of Ministers

Chivu Stoica (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• First Vice-President of the Council of Ministers

Emil Bodnăraș^[2] (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• First Vice-President of the Council of Ministers

Petre Borilă^{[3] [4]} (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• First Vice-President of the Council of Ministers

Alexandru Drăghici^[5] (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• First Vice-President of the Council of Ministers

Miron Constantinescu (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Vice-President of the Council of Ministers

Dumitru Petrescu (October 4, 1955 - May 26, 1956)

Gheorghe Hossu (26 May 1956 - 19 March 1957)

• Vice-President of the Council of Ministers

Simion Bughici^[6] (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Vice-President of the Council of Ministers

Alexandru Moghioroș (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Vice-President of the Council of Ministers

Alexandru Bârlădeanu^{[7] [8]} (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Vice-President of the Council of Ministers

Ștefan Voitec^[9] (November 24, 1956 - March 19, 1957)

Ministers

• Minister of the Interior

Pavel Ștefan (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of Foreign Affairs

Grigore Preoteasa (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of Justice

Gheorghe Diaconescu (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of National Defence

Leontin Sălăjan^[10] (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of Finance

Manea Mănescu (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Ministry of Metallurgy and Machine Construction

Gherasim Popa (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of Chemical Industry

Mihail Florescu (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of the Petroleum Industry

Ion Dumitru (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of Coal

Ioan Mineu (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of Electricity and Electrotechnical Industry

Gheorghe Cioara (October 4, 1955 - February 19, 1957)

Nicolae Gheorghiu (19 February - 19 March 1957)

• Minister of Constructions

Gheorghe Hossu (4 October 1955 - 10 January 1956)

Ștefan Bălan (January 10, 1956 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of the Construction Materials Industry

Carol Loncear (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of Light Industry

Alexandru Sencovici (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of Agriculture (from January 10, 1956 the ministry was reorganized as the Ministry of Agriculture)

Constantin Popescu^[11] (October 4, 1955 - January 10, 1956)

Gheorghe Hossu (January 10 - May 26, 1956)

Marin Stancu (May 26, 1956 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of Wood, Paper and Pulp Industry (The Ministry was reorganized on January 10, 1956 under the name of the Ministry of Wood Industry)

Mihai Suder (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of Food Industry

Constantin Teodoru (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of State Agricultural Households

Bucur Șciopu (January 10, 1956 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of communal households and local industry (on February 19, 1957 the ministry was abolished)

Anton Vladoiu (October 4, 1955 - March 23, 1956)

Filip Geltz (March 23, 1956 - February 19, 1957)

• Minister of Forestry

Constantin Popescu (January 10, 1956 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of Collections (on January 21, 1957, the ministry was abolished)

Mihai Dalea (October 4, 1955 - May 11, 1956)

Constantin Doncea^[12] (May 11, 1956 - January 21, 1957)

• Minister of Internal Trade

Ștefan Voitec^[13] (October 4, 1955 - November 24, 1956)

• Minister of Foreign Trade

Marcel Popescu (October 4, 1955 - November 24, 1956)

Gheorghe Rădulescu (24 November 1956 - 19 March 1957)

• Minister of Railways

Ionel Diaconescu (October 4, 1955 - September 24, 1956)

Ion Cosma (September 24, 1956 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of Naval and Air Transport

Gheorghe D. Safer (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of Posts and Telecommunications

Dumitru Simulescu (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of Social Provisions (on January 21, 1957 the ministry was abolished)

Octavian Berlogea (October 4, 1955 - January 21, 1957)

• Minister of Health (on January 21, 1957 merged with the Ministry of Social Provisions)

Voinea Marinescu (October 4, 1955 - January 21, 1957)

• Minister of Health and Social Provisions

Voinea Marinescu (January 21 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of Education

Ilie Murgulescu (October 4, 1955 - November 24, 1956)

Miron Constantinescu (November 24, 1956 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of Culture

Constanța Crăciun^[14] (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• Minister of Religions

Petre Constantinescu-Iași^[15] (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

Ministers Secretaries of State

• President of the State Planning Committee (with the rank of minister)

Alexandru Bârlădeanu (October 4, 1955 - May 26, 1956)

Gheorghe Gaston Marin (26 May 1956 - 19 March 1957)

• President of the State Control Commission (with the rank of minister)

Dumitru Coliu (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

• President of the State Committee for Architecture and Systematization (with the rank of minister)

Nicolae Badescu (October 4, 1955 - March 19, 1957)

Source

• Stelian Neagoe - "History of Romanian governments from the beginning - 1859 to our days - 1995" (Ed. Machiavelli, Bucharest, 1995)
• Rompres

Notes and References

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3. Tismăneanu, Stalinism..., p.293
4. George H. Hodos, Show Trials: Stalinist Purges in Eastern Europe, 1948-1954, Praeger/Greenwood, Westport, 1987, p.99.
5. Grigore and Șerbu, p. 311; S. Neagoe, p. 249
6. Web site: Foreign Affairs Commission . 2010-08-20 . 2012-02-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120226110631/http://www.osaarchivum.org/files/holdings/300/8/3/text/48-6-98.shtml . dead .
7. Bogdan Cristian Iacob, "Avatars of the Romanian Academy and the Historical Front: 1948 versus 1955", in Vladimir Tismăneanu (ed.), Stalinism Revisited: The Establishment of Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe, p.273. Central European University Press, 2010,
8. Dan Drăghia, Biography at the 1990 Mineriad section of the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile site; accessed April 3, 2012
9. http://www.cnsas.ro/documente/2004%20-%20Membrii%20CC.pdf
10. Galeria Şefilor SMG, at the Romanian Defense Ministry site; accessed April 2, 2012
11. Ion Alexandrescu, Enciclopedia de istorie a României, vol. 2, pp. 121-23. Bucharest: Editura Meronia, 2000.
12. Dobre, p.224
13. Dobre et al., p. 627; Dumitrescu, p. 328
14. Web site: Nomenclatura - membrii I (A - C) . Comunismul în România - . 11 March 2015 . ro.
15. Web site: Pena . Cătălin . Azi era ziua unui comunist român din 1921, conducător al Uniunii Patrioților . 2022-11-12 . www.evenimentulistoric.ro . 25 November 2019 . ro-RO.