24 Facts About Mihail Manoilescu

The Manoilescus moved to Iasi when Mihail was a child.

Soon, Mihail Manoilescu joined the People's Party, a populist force led by General Alexandru Averescu, becoming undersecretary of state in the latter's first cabinet.

Mihail Manoilescu was responsible for measures such as organizing the Industrial Exhibition, carrying out industrial statistics, and unifying legislation related to the industry.

Mihail Manoilescu became influential as an orator, and was a frequent presence in conferences hosted by the sociologist Dimitrie Gusti.

Mihail Manoilescu returned to high office with the second Averescu executive, and drafted innovative legislation concerning tariffs and salary amortization.

Mihail Manoilescu was then an advocate of the crowning of Carol Caraiman as King of Romania.

Mihail Manoilescu speculated that Ferdinand had endorsed a regency only for as long as Carol continued to behave irresponsibly, and had not wanted to exclude his son from the throne.

Mihail Manoilescu was elected to the Assembly of Deputies for the PNT in 1930, representing Caras County.

The incident contributed to PNT inner-conflict that caused Mihail Manoilescu to leave the grouping.

In 1931, Mihail Manoilescu was governor of the National Bank of Romania and began teaching political economy at the Polytechnic Institute.

Mihail Manoilescu argued that a national economy could develop only if it minimized its contacts with the world market and relied instead on cultivating internal demand for a local industry.

Mihail Manoilescu himself welcomed the antisemitic policies of the Alexandru Vaida-Voevod government.

Mihail Manoilescu's opinion that the engagement of productive forces in industry, seen as always more productive than agriculture and other raw materials, is a welcomed process constituted an influence on both Celso Furtado and Raul Prebisch.

Mihail Manoilescu influenced not only business circles in Brazil, but his arguments were referred to by the Lewiatan Group in Poland.

Mihail Manoilescu's works had some influence in Argentina, although not as much as in Brazil and Chile.

In July 1940, at the moment of crisis when Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina were ceded to the Soviet Union, Mihail Manoilescu was named foreign minister in the pro-fascist government headed by Ion Gigurtu.

Mihail Manoilescu, who was a supporter of the Axis alliance, attempted in vain to make use of his influence with Italian authorities.

Mihail Manoilescu did however continue to serve as Foreign Minister during the short-lived First Antonescu cabinet, bringing the overall duration of his 1940 term to 70 days.

On October 12,1944, as Romania signed an armistice with the United Nations, Mihail Manoilescu was jailed without trial for 14 months, during which time he was expelled from his position at the Polytechnic Institute.

Mihail Manoilescu was jailed by Communist Romanian authorities on December 19,1948, and was brought first to Jilava Prison, and then to the prison of Ocnele Mari.

Mihail Manoilescu was ultimately brought to Sighet Prison, where he died at the end of 1950.

Mihail Manoilescu's family was told of his death only in May 1958.

Mihail Manoilescu, who led the bank for several months in 1931, was among them.

Mihail Manoilescu's inclusion drew strong protests from the US Embassy in Romania and the Wiesel Institute, on the grounds of Mihail Manoilescu's advocacy of Fascist ideology and antisemitism before World War II.