Ion C. Marinescu

Ion C. Marinescu (November 10, 1886 – January 15, 1956) was a Romanian lawyer, politician and industrialist.

Ion C. Marinescu
Minister of National Economy
In office
26 May 1941 – 14 August 1942
Prime MinisterIon Antonescu
Preceded byGheorghe Potopeanu
Succeeded byIon I. Fințescu
70th Minister of Finance
In office
8 April 1942 – 25 September 1942
Prime MinisterIon Antonescu
Preceded byNicolae Scarlat Stoenescu
Succeeded byAlexandru D. Neagu
Minister of Justice
In office
14 August 1942 – 23 August 1944
Prime MinisterIon Antonescu
Preceded byConstantin C. Stoicescu
Succeeded byLucrețiu Pătrășcanu
Personal details
Born(1886-11-10)November 10, 1886
Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
DiedJanuary 10, 1956(1956-01-10) (aged 69)
Aiud Prison, Romanian People's Republic
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest
OccupationLawyer, industrialist
AwardsOrder of the Crown of Romania, Grand Cross class

Born in Bucharest,[1] Marinescu graduated from the law faculty at the University of Bucharest. He was vice president of the General Union of Industrialists in Romania[1] and headed the Concordia petroleum company. In 1922 he commissioned architect Paul Smărăndescu to design and build an apartment building with two floors and a mansard roof on Tudor Arghezi Street, in Bucharest.[2]

Marinescu 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 Minister of Justice, 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 during the Post-World War II Romanian war crime trials, he was sentenced to twenty years at hard labor on May 17, 1946.[1] He spent time at the prisons in Jilava and Aiud, where he died nearly a decade later.[3]

In November 1941, Marinescu was awarded the Order of the Crown of Romania, Grand Cross class.[4]

Notes
  1. "Miniștri de Finanțe (1859–2022)" (PDF). mfinante.gov.ro (in Romanian). Ministry of Public Finance (Romania). p. 149. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  2. "Imobilul avocat Ion C. Marinescu (1922) (București)" [Attorney Ion C. Marinescu building (1922) (Bucharest)] (in Romanian). Wikimapia. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  3. Ottmar Trașcă, "Chestiunea evreiască" în documente militare române, p. 310. Bucharest: Institutul European, 2010, ISBN 978-973-611708-4
  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
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