Petru Groza

Petru Groza

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 276,313 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Petru Groza is the 4,261st most popular politician (down from 4,026th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Romania (down from 70th in 2019) and the 36th 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.