Grigore C. Crăiniceanu (9 July 1852,

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– 1 October 1935) was a

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n military officer. He participated in the

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, ''Voința obștii românești'', p. 184. Bucharest: Editura Militară, 1983 From 1904 to 1907, he was inspector general of military engineers. From 1907 to 1909, Crăiniceanu was

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. In 1909, he was promoted to divisional general. From November 1909 to December 1910, he served as

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in the cabinet of Ion I. C. Brătianu.

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. From 1911 to 1913, he commanded the Second Army Corps. Sent into reserve in 1913, he was recalled to active duty upon Romania's entry into

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, commanding the Second Army during the

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, from August 25 to September 25, 1916. Then, from 1916 to 1917, Crăiniceanu was inspector general of the army. His son, Lieutenant colonel , was allegedly recruited by the German secret service while he was the Romanian military attaché in Vienna (1914–1916) and was executed for treason in April 1917 after he had attempted desertion to the

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, as part of a plot masterminded by Colonel , the son of the former prime minister

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. Crăiniceanu founded two magazines, ''Revista Armatei'' and ''Cercul publicațiilor militare''.

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