Grigore C. Crăiniceanu Explained

Honorific-Prefix:General
Grigore C. Crăiniceanu
Order:13th
Office:Chief of the Romanian General Staff
Term Start:1 April 1907
Term End:1 November 1909
Primeminister:Dimitrie Sturdza
Ion I. C. Brătianu
Office1:33rd Minister of War of Kingdom of Romania
Primeminister1:Ion I. C. Brătianu
Term Start1:1 November 1909
Term End1:28 December 1910
Successor1:Nicolae Filipescu
Birth Date:9 July 1852
Birth Place:Bucharest, Wallachia
Nationality:Romanian
Branch:Romanian Land Forces
Rank:divisional general
Battles:Romanian War of Independence
World War I

Grigore C. Crăiniceanu (9 July 1852, Bucharest  - 1 October 1935) was a Romanian military officer.

He participated in the Romanian War of Independence.[1] From 1904 to 1907, he was inspector general of military engineers. From 1907 to 1909, Crăiniceanu was Chief of the Romanian General Staff. In 1909, he was promoted to divisional general. From November 1909 to December 1910, he served as War Minister in the cabinet of Ion I. C. Brătianu.[2] In 1911, he was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy.[3]

From 1911 to 1913, he commanded the Second Army Corps. Sent into reserve in 1913, he was recalled to active duty upon Romania's entry into World War I, commanding the Second Army during the Battle of Transylvania, from August 25 to September 25, 1916. Then, from 1916 to 1917, Crăiniceanu was inspector general of the army. His son, Lieutenant colonel, was allegedly recruited by the German secret service while he was the Romanian military attaché in Vienna (1914–1916) and was executed for treason in April 1917 after he had attempted desertion to the Germans, as part of a plot masterminded by Colonel, the son of the former prime minister Dimitrie Sturdza.[4]

Crăiniceanu founded two magazines, Revista Armatei and Cercul publicațiilor militare.[2]

Notes and References

  1. [Nicolae Iorga]
  2. [Alexandru Averescu]
  3. Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent at the Romanian Academy site
  4. Web site: Alexandru Sturdza, un trădător din convingere. Manuel. Stănescu. Historia. ro. October 28, 2020.