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Petru Groza

1884 - 1958

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Petru Groza (7 December 1884 – 7 January 1958) was a Romanian politician, best known as the first Prime Minister of the Communist Party-dominated government under Soviet occupation during the early stages of the Communist regime in Romania, and later as the President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly (nominal head of state of Romania) from 1952 until his death in 1958. Groza emerged as a public figure at the end of World War I as a notable member of the Romanian National Party (PNR), preeminent layman of the Romanian Orthodox Church, and then member of the Directory Council of Transylvania. In 1925–26 he served as Minister of State in the cabinet of Marshal Alexandru Averescu. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Petru Groza has received more than 300,150 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Petru Groza is the 3,999th most popular politician (up from 4,250th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Romania (up from 78th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Romanian Politician.

Petru Groza was a Romanian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Romania from 1945 to 1952 and again from 1955 to 1958. He is most famous for implementing a series of reforms that were meant to modernize the country.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Petru Groza ranks 3,999 out of 19,576. Before him are Ban Kulin, Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure, Omar Torrijos, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, Marie Anne de Mailly, and Alain Poher. After him are Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Sancho I of León, Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Emperor Go-Komatsu, Gérard Genette, and Rudolf Slánský.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Petru Groza ranks 40. Before him are Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland, Panait Istrati, Otto Rank, Étienne Gilson, and Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh. After him are Antonín Zápotocký, Hugo Gernsback, Zinaida Serebriakova, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Maria Spiridonova, and Empress Teimei. Among people deceased in 1958, Petru Groza ranks 29. Before him are Alfred Weber, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, André Bazin, Kim Tu-bong, Tyrone Power, and Edna Purviance. After him are Ole Kirk Christiansen, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Duncan Edwards, Pál Maléter, Nuri al-Said, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Petru Groza ranks 70 out of 844. Before him are Elisabeth of Romania (1894), Nicu Ceaușescu (1951), Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899), Clara Haskil (1895), Petre Dumitrescu (1882), and Gabriel Bethlen (1580). After him are Jean Negulesco (1900), Dositej Obradović (1742), Ștefan Kovács (1920), László Rajk (1909), Mihnea cel Rău (1462), and Dinu Lipatti (1917).

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Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Petru Groza ranks 34. Before him are Chivu Stoica (1908), Ana Pauker (1893), Sigismund Báthory (1572), Nicu Ceaușescu (1951), Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899), and Gabriel Bethlen (1580). After him are László Rajk (1909), Mihnea cel Rău (1462), Mircea II of Wallachia (1422), Nicolae Iorga (1871), Pertevniyal Sultan (1812), and Horia Sima (1907).

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