
Ilie Lazăr (born December 12, 1895,
Giulești,
Maramureș County
Maramureș County () is a county (județ)
in Romania, in the Maramureș region. The county seat is Baia Mare.
Name
In Hungarian it is known as ''Máramaros megye'', in Ukrainian as Мараморо́щина, in German as ''Kreis Marmarosc ...
- d. November 6, 1976
Cluj-Napoca
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) was a Romanian jurist and politician, a leading member of the
National Peasants' Party
The National Peasants' Party (also known as the National Peasant Party or National Farmers' Party; ro, Partidul Național Țărănesc, or ''Partidul Național-Țărănist'', PNȚ) was an agrarian political party in the Kingdom of Romania. It w ...
in the interwar period and the right-hand man of
Iuliu Maniu
Iuliu Maniu (; 8 January 1873 – 5 February 1953) was an Austro-Hungarian-born lawyer and Romanian politician. He was a leader of the National Party of Transylvania and Banat before and after World War I, playing an important role in the U ...
.
Lazăr fought in
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...
to release
Cernăuți, then he and Moldavian troops participated in the liberation of
Sighet, where he would be imprisoned 34 years later. He was firstly a member of the Romanian National Party and in 1928 he won the seat of deputy for the National Peasants' Party.
In 1946, before the
parliamentary elections
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, he was arrested by the communist authorities on charges of treason, was imprisoned for seven months. His wife, Maria Lazăr, won the seat of deputy in his place, proving his popularity.
In 1947 is involved in
Tămădău Affair, the starting point of a lawsuit filed against personalities of National Peasants' Party (PNȚ). On November 12, 1947, after the trial, he was sentenced to 12 years hard imprisonment, 5 years loss of citizenship, confiscation of property, and 50,000
lei costs of the proceedings. Lazăr was first sent to a prison in
Galați
Galați (, , ; also known by other alternative names) is the capital city of Galați County in the historical region of Western Moldavia, in eastern Romania. Galați is a port town on the Danube River. It has been the only port for the most pa ...
; in 1951 he was transferred to the notorious
Sighet Prison, and in 1956 he was sent to a prison in
Râmnicu Sărat.
Family
His parents were descendants of old Romanian families of gentry, his father was a descendant of the family Lazăr of
Purcareț,
[National Archives of Romania, Sălaj County Branch, Lazăr of Purcăreț family fund, inventory number 131 (1720-1945)] and his mother was descended from the family Ivașcu from Apșa de Jos. His grandfather, Vasile Lazăr, was priest and law degree, was archpriest of Sighet, and he descended from seven generations of priests.
References
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1895 births
1976 deaths
People from Maramureș County
National Peasants' Party politicians
20th-century Romanian politicians
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania)
20th-century Romanian lawyers
Romanian anti-communists
Inmates of Sighet prison
Representatives of the Alba Iulia National Assembly