Ion Gheorghe Iosif Maurer (September 23, 1902 - February 8, 2000) was a Romanian communist politician and lawyer.
Born in Bucharest to an (Alsatian-)French father and a French mother, he completed studies in Law and became an attorney, defending in court members of the illegal leftist and Anti-fascist movements. Occasionally, as in the 1936 trial of Romanian Communist Party (PCR) activists, including Ana Pauker, Alexandru Drăghici, and Alexandru ...
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Ion Gheorghe Iosif Maurer (September 23, 1902 - February 8, 2000) was a Romanian communist politician and lawyer.
Born in Bucharest to an (Alsatian-)French father and a French mother, he completed studies in Law and became an attorney, defending in court members of the illegal leftist and Anti-fascist movements. Occasionally, as in the 1936 trial of Romanian Communist Party (PCR) activists, including Ana Pauker, Alexandru Drăghici, and Alexandru Moghioroş in Craiova, he assisted Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu).
Before 1937, he was briefly active in the Radical Peasants' Party, formed by Grigore Iunian as a splinter group of the National Peasants' Party; however, he was by then already a member of the illegal Communist Party and active in the Agitprop section.
In 1942-1943, during World War II he was imprisoned for his political activity (notably, in the camp at Târgu Jiu), and, as a member of a paramilitary grouping, played a secondary part in the events of August 23, 1944 that led to the...
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