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Ion Antonescu

1882 - 1946

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Ion Antonescu (; Romanian: [i'on antoˈnesku] ; 14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1882 – 1 June 1946) was a Romanian military officer and marshal who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II. Having been responsible for facilitating the Holocaust in Romania, he was tried for war crimes and executed in 1946. A Romanian Army career officer who made his name during the 1907 peasants' revolt and the World War I Romanian campaign, the antisemitic Antonescu sympathized with far-right and fascist politics. He was a military attaché to France and later Chief of the General Staff, briefly serving as Defense Minister in the National Christian cabinet of Octavian Goga as well as the subsequent First Cristea cabinet, in which he also served as Air and Marine Minister. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ion Antonescu has received more than 2,112,263 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Ion Antonescu is the 722nd most popular politician (down from 678th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Romania (down from 12th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Romanian Politician.

Antonescu was a Romanian military officer who served as the country's Prime Minister and Conducător during World War II. He presided over Romania's transition from a democracy to a dictatorship and was responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Jews, Roma, and other Romanian civilians.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ion Antonescu ranks 722 out of 19,576. Before him are Yitzhak Shamir, Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Sigismund II Augustus, Pedro I of Brazil, and Peter I of Serbia. After him are Jair Bolsonaro, Justin Trudeau, Edvard Beneš, Alexander Kerensky, Charles IX of Sweden, and John III of Sweden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Ion Antonescu ranks 13. Before him are Georges Braque, Max Born, Sigrid Undset, Georgi Dimitrov, Emmy Noether, and Abdullah I of Jordan. After him are Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Günther von Kluge, Kurt von Schleicher, Abd el-Krim, Mohammad Mosaddegh, and Percy Williams Bridgman. Among people deceased in 1946, Ion Antonescu ranks 10. Before him are Joachim von Ribbentrop, H. G. Wells, Alfred Rosenberg, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Hans Frank. After him are Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Mikhail Kalinin, Gerhart Hauptmann, Alexander Alekhine, Gertrude Stein, and Wilhelm Frick.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Ion Antonescu ranks 13 out of 844. Before him are Stephen Báthory (1533), John Hunyadi (1407), Emil Cioran (1911), Elena Ceaușescu (1916), Tristan Tzara (1896), and Béla IV of Hungary (1206). After him are Mircea Eliade (1907), Theodoric I (393), Leo I the Thracian (401), Carol II of Romania (1893), Béla Kun (1886), and Stephen III of Moldavia (1433).

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Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Ion Antonescu ranks 8. Before him are Michael I of Romania (1921), Alaric I (376), Stephen Báthory (1533), John Hunyadi (1407), Elena Ceaușescu (1916), and Béla IV of Hungary (1206). After him are Theodoric I (393), Leo I the Thracian (401), Carol II of Romania (1893), Béla Kun (1886), Stephen III of Moldavia (1433), and Ion Iliescu (1930).

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