Second Stoica cabinet

Second Stoica cabinet
99th Cabinet of Romania
Date formed	20 March 1957 (1957-03-20)
Date dissolved	20 March 1961 (1961-03-20)
People and organisations
President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly	Petru Groza until January 7, 1958, Ion Gheorghe Maurer from January 10, 1958
President of the Council of Ministers	Chivu Stoica (PCR)
Vice President of the Council of Ministers	Emil Bodnăraș (PCR) Petre Borilă (PCR) Miron Constantinescu (PCR) Gherasim Popa  [ ro ](PCR) Alexandru Moghioroș (PCR) Alexandru Bârlădeanu (PCR) Ștefan Voitec (PCR) Athanase Joja  [ ro ](PCR)
No. of ministers	41
Total no. of members	34
Member party	PCR
Status in legislature	One-party state
History
Election	1957
Legislature term	3rd Great National Assembly
Predecessor	Stoica I
Successor	Maurer I

The second Stoica cabinet was the government of Romania from March 20, 1957 to March 20, 1961.

Changes in the government

• December 5, 1958 - The Ministry of Mines was abolished, becoming a department within the Ministry of Heavy Industry.

• May 4, 1959 - The State Committee for Construction, Architecture, and Systematization was established.

Composition

The ministers of the cabinet were as follows: ^[1]

• President of the Council of Ministers:

• Chivu Stoica (March 20, 1957 – March 20, 1961)

• Vice Presidents of the Council of Ministers:

• Emil Bodnăraș ^[2] (March 20, 1957 – March 20, 1961)
• Petre Borilă ^{[3] [4]} (March 20, 1957 – March 20, 1961)
• Miron Constantinescu (March 20, 1957 – July 15, 1957)
• Gherasim Popa  [ ro ] (October 10, 1957 – March 20, 1961)
• Alexandru Moghioroș (March 20, 1957 – March 20, 1961)
• Alexandru Bârlădeanu ^{[5] [6]} (March 20, 1957 – March 20, 1961)
• Ștefan Voitec ^[7] (March 20, 1957 – March 20, 1961)
• Athanase Joja  [ ro ] (February 8, 1958 – March 20, 1961)

• Minister of the Interior:

• Alexandru Drăghici ^[8] (March 20, 1957 – March 20, 1961)

• Minister of Foreign Affairs:

• Grigore Preoteasa (March 20, 1957 – July 15, 1957)
• Ion Gheorghe Maurer (July 15, 1957 – January 23, 1958)
• Avram Bunaciu ^[9] (January 23, 1958 – March 20, 1961)

• Minister of Justice:

• Gheorghe Diaconescu (March 20, 1957 – December 31, 1957)
• Avram Bunaciu (December 31, 1957 – January 23, 1958)
• Gheorghe Diaconescu (January 23, 1958 – March 20, 1961)

• Minister of National Defense:

• Leontin Sălăjan ^[10] (March 20, 1957 – March 20, 1961)

• Minister of Finance:

• Aurel Vijoli  [ ro ] (March 20, 1957 – March 20, 1961)

• Minister of Heavy Industry:

• Gherasim Popa  [ ro ] (March 20, 1957 – April 27, 1959)
• Carol Loncear  [ ro ] (April 27, 1959 – July 1, 1960)
• Constantin Tuzu  [ ro ] (July 1, 1960 – March 20, 1961)

• Minister of Mines:

• Ioan Mineu (March 20, 1957 – March 20, 1961)

• Minister of Petroleum and Chemistry:

• Mihail Florescu  [ ro ] (March 20, 1957 – March 20, 1961)

• Minister of Consumer Goods Industry:

• Ștefan Voitec ^[11] (March 20, 1957 – April 27, 1959)
• Alexandru Sencovici  [ ro ] (April 27, 1959 – March 20, 1961)

• Minister of Construction and Building Materials(on May 4, 1959, the ministry was abolished):

• Gheorghe Hossu  [ ro ] (March 20, 1957 – December 5, 1958)
• Mihai Suder  [ ro ] (December 5, 1958 – May 4, 1959)

• Minister of Agriculture and Forestry:

• Ion Cosma (March 20, 1957 – March 20, 1961)

• Minister of Forestry Economics:

• Mihai Suder  [ ro ] (December 17, 1959 – March 20, 1961)

• Minister of Trade:

• Marcel Popescu (March 20, 1957 – August 17, 1959)
• Gheorghe (Gogu) Rădulescu ^[12] (August 17, 1959 – March 20, 1961)

• Minister of Transport and Telecommunications:

• Emil Bodnăraș (March 20, 1957 – April 27, 1959)
• Dumitru Simulescu  [ ro ] (April 27, 1959 – March 20, 1961)

• Minister of Health and Social Provisions:

• Voinea Marinescu  [ ro ] (March 20, 1957 – March 20, 1961)

• Minister of Education:

• Miron Constantinescu (March 20, 1957 – July 15, 1957)
• Athanase Joja  [ ro ] (July 15, 1957 – January 16, 1960)
• Ilie G. Murgulescu (January 16, 1960 – March 20, 1961)

Minister Secretaries of State

• President of the State Planning Committee(with ministerial rank):

• Gheorghe Gaston Marin ^[13] (March 20, 1957 – March 20, 1961)

• President of the State Control Commission(with ministerial rank):

• Dumitru Coliu ^{[14] [15]} (March 20, 1957 – March 20, 1961)

• President of the Committee for the Issues of Local Organs of State Administration(with ministerial rank):

• Petre Costache (March 20, 1957 – May 4, 1959)

• President of the State Waters Committee(with ministerial rank):

• Ion S. Bernacki (March 20, 1957 – December 5, 1958)
• Gheorghe Hossu  [ ro ] (December 5, 1958 – March 20, 1961)

• Ceremonial Head of State(with ambassadorial rank):

• Dionisie Ionescu (February 8, 1958 – March 20, 1961)

Sources

• (in Romanian) Final Report of the Presidential Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania
• Luminița Banu, Florian Banu, "Securitatea, bancherul și vânătoarea — o acțiune de 'lobby cinegetic' în anii '70", in Caietele CNSAS, Vol. VIII, Issue 1, 2015, pp. 213–266.
• Florica Dobre, Liviu Marius Bejenaru, Clara Cosmineanu-Mareș, Monica Grigore, Alina Ilinca, Oana Ionel, Nicoleta Ionescu-Gură, Elisabeta Neagoe-Pleșa, Liviu Pleșa, Membrii C.C. al P.C.R. (1945–1989). Dicționar. Bucharest: Editura Enciclopedică, 2004. ISBN   973-45-0486-X
• Horia Dumitrescu, "Ștefan Voitec și Țara Vrancei", in Cronica Vrancei, Vol. I, 2000, pp. 313–330.
• (in Romanian) Constantin Grigore and Miliana Șerbu, Miniștrii de interne (1862–2007) , Editura Ministerului Internelor și Reformei Administrative, Bucharest, 2007. ISBN   978-97374-504-8-7
• Stelian Neagoe - "History of Romanian governments from the beginning - 1859 to our days - 1995" (Ed. Machiavelli, Bucharest, 1995)
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• Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism, University of California Press, 2003, ISBN   0-52-023747-1

References

1. Stelian Neagoe - "Istoria guvernelor României de la începuturi - 1859 până în zilele noastre - 1995" (Ed. Machiavelli, Bucharest, 1995)
2. Final Report, p. 43 n. 32
3. Tismăneanu, Stalinism..., p.293
4. George H. Hodos, Show Trials: Stalinist Purges in Eastern Europe, 1948-1954, Praeger/Greenwood, Westport, 1987, p.99. ISBN   0-275-92783-0
5. 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, ISBN   978-9639776630
6. (in Romanian) 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
7. Dobre et al., p. 627. See also Dumitrescu, p. 329
8. Grigore and Șerbu, p. 311; S. Neagoe, p. 249
9. Khrushchev, Nikita; Khrushchev, Sergey; Shriver, George; Shenfield, Stephen (2007). Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Statesman, 1953–1964. United States: Pennsylvania State University. p. 292. ISBN   978-0-271-02935-1 . Retrieved 2010-08-17.
10. (in Romanian) Galeria Şefilor SMG, at the Romanian Defense Ministry site; accessed April 2, 2012
11. Dobre et al., p. 627. See also Dumitrescu, p. 329
12. Banu & Banu, p. 246; Dobre et al., p. 505
13. "A murit Gaston Marin, "dirijorul" electrificării României". Jurnalul Național (in Romanian). Archived from the original on December 11, 2013. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
14. (in Romanian) [http://www.crimelecomunismului.ro/ro/biografiile_nomenklaturii/ Biografiile nomenklaturiiArchived March 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine , at the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile site; accessed May 22, 2012
15. Tismăneanu, p.102

External links

• Acad. Ilie MURGULESCU (1902 – 1991) Chimist, inventator, presedinte al Academiei Romine

Preceded by First Stoica cabinet

Cabinet of Romania March 20, 1957 - March 20, 1961

Succeeded by First Maurer cabinet