Ion C. Marinescu
Ion C. Marinescu (1886–January 15, 1956) was a Romanian lawyer, politician and industrialist.
A graduate of the Law faculty at the University of Bucharest, Marinescu was vice president of the industrialists’ union and headed the Concordia petroleum company. He was Minister of National Economy under Ion Antonescu from May 26, 1941 to August 14, 1942, and also served as Minister of Finance from April 8 to September 25, 1942.[1] On August 14, 1942 he became Justice Minister, serving in that position until King Michael's Coup of August 23, 1944. Arrested in October, he was charged with contributing to Romania's attack on the Soviet Union via his submissive policy towards Nazi Germany. Tried before the Romanian People's Tribunals, he was sentenced to twenty years at hard labor in May 1946. He spent time at the prisons in Jilava and Aiud, where he died nearly a decade later.[2]
In November 1941, Marinescu was awarded the Order of the Crown of Romania, Grand Cross class.[3]
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- ^ "Album miniștri de finanțe 1859–2020". mfinante.gov.ro (in Romanian). Ministry of Public Finance (Romania). Retrieved June 25, 2021.
- ^ Ottmar Trașcă, "Chestiunea evreiască" în documente militare române, p. 310. Bucharest: Institutul European, 2010, ISBN 978-973-611708-4
- ^ "Decretul Regal nr. 3.064 din 7 noiembrie 1941 pentru conferiri de decorații", Monitorul Oficial (in Romanian), vol. CIX, no. 266, p. I.6.996, 8 November 1941
- 1886 births
- 1956 deaths
- University of Bucharest alumni
- Romanian businesspeople in the oil industry
- Romanian Ministers of Justice
- Romanian Ministers of Economy
- People convicted by the Romanian People's Tribunals
- Inmates of Aiud prison
- Romanian people who died in prison custody
- Grand Crosses of the Order of the Crown (Romania)
- Romanian Ministers of Finance