Ion Codreanu | |
Office: | Member of the Moldovan Parliament |
Term Start: | 1917 |
Term End: | 1918 |
Birth Date: | 14 April 1879 |
Birth Place: | Ștefănești, Florești, Soroca County |
Death Place: | Bucharest |
Profession: | Landlord |
Party: | Bessarabian Peasants' Party |
Otherparty: | National Moldavian Party |
Ion Stepanovici Codreanu (born 14 April 1879 Ștefănești, Florești, Soroca County; died 15 February 1949 Bucharest) was a Moldovan politician.
In 1917, Codreanu was a founding member of the National Moldavian Party. Soon after, he was elected as a member of the Moldovan Parliament.
After the Soviet invasion of Bessarabia in 1940, he became a political prisoner in USSR, but in May 1941, he was exchanged for the Communist Ana Pauker.[1]