Ion N. Manolescu-Strunga (12 May 1889 in

Strunga Strunga () is a commune in Iași County, Western Moldavia, Romania. It is situated 55 km from Iași city. It is composed of eight villages: Brătulești, Crivești, Cucova, Fărcășeni, Fedeleșeni, Gura Văii, Hăbășești and Strunga. At ...

Iași County Iași County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Western Moldavia, with the administrative seat at Iași. It is the most populous county in Romania, after the Municipality of Bucharest (which has the same administrative level as that of a cou ...

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– 19 April 1951 in

Sighetu Marmației Sighetu Marmației (, also spelled ''Sighetul Marmației''; or ''Siget''; , ; ; ), until 1960 Sighet, is a city in Maramureș County near the Iza River, in northwestern Romania. Geography Sighetu Marmației is situated along the Tisa river o ...

) was a

n liberal

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. He studied economics in

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and afterwards obtained his doctor's degree at the

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. He was undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture in 1933–1934, and again in 1936. He also was Minister of Industry and Commerce from 5 October 1934 to 1 August 1935 and Minister, secretary of state from 17 November 1937 to 28 December 1937. Under the

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he was arrested on 6 May 1950. He was sentenced to 2 years of hard labor and sent to the Sighet Prison, where he died on 19 April 1951. His first wife was actress

Elvira Popescu Elvira Popescu (; in French, Elvire Popesco; 10 May 1894 – 11 December 1993) was a Romanian- French stage and film actress and theatre director. During the 1930s and 1940s, she starred in a number of French comedy films. Life and career Popes ...

. After his death, his second wife, Irina Manolescu-Strunga (''née'' Filotti), was arrested on 15 April 1952; sentenced to two years, she was detained at

Dumbrăveni Dumbrăveni (before 1945 ''Ibașfalău''; ; Saxon dialect: ''Eppeschdorf''; ) is a town in the north of Sibiu County, in the centre of Transylvania, central Romania. The town administers two villages, Ernea (''Ehrgang''; ''Argung''; ''Szászerny ...

and Văcărești prisons, and liberated on 30 November 1953. Their daughter, Gina, had a child with the journalist

N. D. Cocea N. D. Cocea (common rendition of Nicolae Dumitru Cocea, , also known as Niculae, Niculici or Nicu Cocea; November 29, 1880 – February 1, 1949) was a Romanian journalist, novelist, critic and left-wing political activist, known as a major but c ...

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* 1951 deaths 1889 births People from Iași County Humboldt University of Berlin alumni 20th-century landowners Romanian landowners National Liberal Party (Romania) politicians Ministers of agriculture of Romania Ministers of industry and commerce of Romania Inmates of Sighet prison Romanian people who died in prison custody Prisoners who died in Securitate custody {{Romania-bio-stub