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Valter Roman (also spelled Walter Roman) was born Ernst Neulander (also spelled Ernő Neulander) on October 9, 1913 at Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (today Oradea, Romania). He died on November 11, 1983 in Romania. Valter Roman was a major activist of the Romanian Communist Party.


Early years

Jewish origin.

Electrotechnical engineering degree obtained in Brno (Czechoslovakia).

Communist activist

Valter Roman has been a member of four Communist Parties: Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, French Communist Party, Spanish Communist Party, and Romanian Communist Party. Roman has been a volunteer in an Romanian artillery unit of the International Brigades, where he was wounded twice before going to the Soviet Union.

According to Jurnalul National, Roman worked at the Kaliningrad plane factory (1938-1941), at one of the Comintern sections, and then at the Institute for Scientific Research (1941 – 1945). According to the Tismaneanu Report, Roman directed the Romanian-language radio station of the Comintern "Romania Libera".

Valter Roman returned to Romania in July 1945 as political locum tenens of general Mihail Lascăr, the commander of the Soviet-organized Horia, Cloşca şi Crişan Division.

Communist Romania

In Romania, Roman became a Romanian Army general with political attributions. According to the Tismaneanu Report, Roman was epurated from his Army position in the early 1950s, but was later rehabilitated and named by Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej director of the publishing house of the party.


Various political positions held by Valter Roman:

  • Jul 24, 1965 - Nov 11, 1983:Member of the CC of PCR
  • 1947 - 1951: Chief of the Superior Political Direction of the Romanian Army
  • 1954 - 1983: Director of the Political Editing House
  • Mars 29, 1951 - Jan 24, 1953: Minister of the Post and Telecommunications
  • 1946: Chief of the Army Direction for Education, Culture, and Propaganda
  • 1951: Vice-president of the SRSC

Valter Roman has been implicated in the negotiations concerning Imre Nagy's detainment in Romania after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was defeated.

Becomes a Major General (General Maior?) on May 1, 1948.

Hero of the Socialist Work (Erou al muncii socialiste).

University professor.

Publications

Sociology of the science:

  • Revolutia industriala in dezvoltarea societatii (The Industrial Revolution in the Development of the Society)
  • Eseuri despre revolutia stiintifica si tehnica (Essays on the Scientific and Technical Revolution)

Memorialistics:

  • Sub cerul Spaniei (Under the skies of Spain)

References

  1. Raportul Tismaneanu
  2. Raportul Tismaneanu
  3. ^ Template:Ro icon Moscow's Figures among Romanian Communists
  4. Raportul Tismaneanu
  5. The book on Hungarians, which references other books.
  6. http://www.kappa.ro/news/dimineata/dm-220.html

Bibliography

  • Gheorghe CRIŞAN. Piramida puterii (The Pyramid of the Power). Second edition. Bucharest, Pro Historia publishing house, 2004. ISBN 978-973-85206-9-1.
  • Mic dictionar enciclopedic.
  • Andreea ANDREESCU, Lucian NASTASĂ, and Andrea VARGA, editors. Minorităţi etnoculturale. Mărturii documentare. Maghiarii din România (1945-1955). EN: Ethnocultural minorities. Documents. The Hungarians of Romania (1945-1955). Cluj, CRDE Publishing House, 2002, 920 p., ISBN 973-85305-4-7.

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