Ion Antonescu

prime minister of Romania during World War II, executed for war crimes (1882–1946)

OverviewAI-generated

Ion Antonescu (1882–1946) was a Romanian politician, military personnel, and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Romania. Born in Pitești, he held the rank of marshal in the Romanian Land Forces and commanded the Romanian Armed Forces. He participated in World War I, the 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt, the Second Balkan War, and the Hungarian-Czechoslovak-România War. Antonescu was educated at the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr and spoke Romanian and French.

He received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, the Order of Michael the Brave, and the Order of the German Eagle. His works include *Catre români*, *Antonescu-- Hitler*, *Citiți, judecați, cutremurați-vă*, and *Epistolarul Infernului*. Antonescu was convicted of war crimes, treason, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace. He died in Jilava from a gunshot wound following capital punishment.

Synthesized by Vinony from 41 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Wikiquote, Open Library, VIAF, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born: 1882
Died: 1946
Works: 7

Top works

Catre români
Antonescu-- Hitler
Antonescu-- Hitler
Citiți, judecați, cutremurați-vă
Epistolarul Infernului

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 10
Total plays: 11

via Last.fm · Ion Antonescu

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

StringTie enables improved reconstruction of a transcriptome from RNA-seq reads
· 2015 · cited 13,192x
A view of cloud computing
· 2010 · cited 6,827x
Versatile and open software for comparing large genomes
· 2004 · cited 5,006x
Chord
· 2001 · cited 3,623x
The landscape of somatic copy-number alteration across human cancers
· 2010 · cited 3,538x

via Crossref · CC0

Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan: 1882–1946
Nationality: RO
Role / Field: Politycy i polityczki, Politicos, Militares
Language: rum
Gender: Male

Recorded by 16 libraries

via VIAF · OCLC

Quotes

“„I'm honoured that I could fight in four wars for your honour, my dear people, for your rights and your freedom.””
“„Be humane, be just and recognise that, over all ambitions, intrigues and hatred, there is the Motherland, the eternal of the people, and we always have to meet there, even though we disagree sometimes.””
“(letter adressed to Mihai Antonescu, 6 september 1941) „We must all understand that this is not a fight against Slavs, but against the Jews. It's a battle for life and death. Either we win and the world will purify, or they'll win and we'll become their slaves. Both the war in general and the battles at Odessa, especially, have made the proof that the Jew is Satan.””
“(transcripts from Council of Ministers meeting 13 noiembrie 1941) I. Antonescu: „I'd like you to remove all Jews from Odesa immediately, because the resistence at Sevastopol makes us think that we can expect a landing at Odesa. I thought Sevastopol will fall earlier. Yet today, because the Russian fleet has the possibility to use Sevastopol, it can make us an unpleasent surpirse.””

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Romania
Place of birth: Pitești
Place of death: Jilava
Spouse: Maria Antonescu
Occupation: diplomat
Educated at: École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr
Political party: independent politician
Languages spoken: French
Participant in: The Holocaust
Conflict: 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt
Military branch: Romanian Land Forces
Military rank: marshal
Image: Ion Antonescu 1941.jpg
Convicted of: war crime
Significant event: The Holocaust
Political ideology: national conservatism

Show 12 more facts

Commons category: Ion Antonescu
date of birth: 1882-06-02
date of death: 1946-06-01
cause of death: gunshot wound
manner of death: capital punishment
name in native language: Ion Antonescu
commander of (DEPRECATED): Romanian Armed Forces
last words: Vous ne m'avez pas tué, messieurs, tirez encore !
significant person: Adolf Hitler
end of work period: 1944-00-00
P12749: Albert I, Prince of Monaco
nickname: Câinele Roșu

Sources (9)

via Wikidata · CC0

~40 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Chief of the Romanian General Staff In office 1 December 1933 – 11 December 1934 MonarchCarol II Preceded byConstantin Lăzărescu [ro] Succeeded byNicolae Samsonovici

Personal details Born(1882-06-14)14 June 1882 Pitești, Argeș County, Romania

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ion Antonescu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.