Averescu, Alexandru

Averescu, Alexandru

▪ premier of Romania
born April 22, 1859, Izmail, Moldavia [now in Ukraine]
died Oct. 3, 1938, Bucharest, Rom.

      military leader and politician who three times served as premier of Romania and was the country's national hero in World War I.

      After serving in the Romanian war of independence against Turkey (Russo-Turkish War, 1877–78), Averescu was sent to Italy for military training. As an army general and newly appointed minister of war during the peasant uprising of March–April 1907, he ruthlessly suppressed the uprising at the cost of several thousand peasant lives. As Romanian chief of staff, he directed military operations against Bulgaria in the Second Balkan War (1913); and during World War I he conducted the successful resistance to the Germans at Mărăști (1917).

      The idol of the soldiery, Averescu was appointed premier in March 1918 to conclude peace with the Central Powers (the coalition of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey), but he resigned before the Treaty of Bucharest was concluded with them in May 1918. Later, as head of the newly created People's Party, he again served as premier (March 1920–December 1921), introducing a much diluted measure of the long-awaited land redistribution. Between March 1926 and June 1927, Averescu again formed a government. His domestic policies were generally conservative and authoritarian. He sought to undermine the power of the dominant Liberals but failed. When forced to resign as premier in 1927, his role as a major political figure ended.

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