Alexandru Averescu was a prominent Romanian military leader and politician during World War 1 and the interwar period. As a general in the Romanian army during WWI, he led successful offensives in 1916-1917 that halted German advances. His leadership abilities and care for soldiers made him a beloved and popular figure among troops. After the war, he entered politics as the leader of the People's Party and served multiple terms as Prime Minister in the 1920s and 1930s. Though his political career was less successful than his military career, Averescu made important contributions such as carrying out agrarian reform and remains a national hero for his role in defending Romania during WWI.
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1. UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE BUCHAREST FACULTY OF
MANAGEMENT, ECONOMIC ENGINEERING IN AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Alexandru Averescu
(1859-1938)
2. • Alexandru Averescu (born April 3, 1859, Babele, United
Principalities - d. October 2, 1938, Bucharest, Romania) was
Marshal of Romania, Army General and Commander of the
Romanian Army during the First World War, being often
credited for the few military successes of Romania. He was
also Prime Minister of Romania in three separate cabinets
(being an Interim Minister of Foreign Affairs during January-
March 1918). Averescu was the author of 12 works on
military issues (including a volume of memoirs on the front
line) , honorary member of the Romanian Academy in June
1923 and decorated with Mihai Viteazul order.
3. • It is remarkable by the strategic thinking of a large scale, in this sense
memorable remains the offensive from Flămânda in the autumn of
1916 and from Marasti in the summer of 1917. The general is a good
organizer, a man who loves and takes care of the soldiers a strategist
with a vision, and especially a man whom the country can rely on in
the mercenary moments, as the circumstances of 1917, when, if
desired, Averescu could have taken power by a coup. On the contrary,
he proved to be a wise man, resisting temptations, at a time when the
Romanian state was weakened.
4. • "He had always been able to cope even with desperate situations" All these
qualities turned him into the most beloved and most popular general of
the Romanian army from the 1916-1919 era. This is how the myth of
Averescu was born, a myth that propelled him to the head of the
government at the end of the war. A fine analyst and wellknown of the
Romanian realities of the interwar period, Constantin Argetoianu described
in his memoirs the key in which the general's popularity can be interpreted
among the people: "Among the peasants, Averescu's name was on all lips;
in him the hopes were crystallized, only the expectation of the miracle of a
livelihood without need and worry ... The popularity of General Averescu
was a psychosis of the front, and the demobilization took her to the villages
as if bringing any other illness. The origin of this psychology must be sought
in the fact that whenever a weight was on the front, General Averescu had
been sent to handle things and managed to face even the desperate
situations ... "
5. Political career
• After the war, Averescu launches himself into politics: he establishes
the People's Party, he is appointed prime minister (1920-1921, 1926-
1927), but at the zenith, General Averescu's star begins to descend. If
at the military level he was able to dominate the enemy of Ion I.C.
Bratianu, in political terms, did not resist the same Bratianu who
helped him lead the government in 1926-1912, but who put his point
on the political career in 1927 when disputes arose between him and
the general. The death of Bratianu, King Ferdinand, the crisis of the
monarchy were the factors that brought Alexandru Averescu into
politics in the early 1930s.
6. • In 1938, although suffering from heart, he holds the last public
positions - royal counselor and minister of state in the government of
Patriarch Miron Cristea. He died in the same year on October 3, being
buried with great honors in the crypt of the Mărășești heroes.
7. • As a politician, Alexander Averescu did not rise to the expectations of
his contemporaries, his myth proved to be part of the imaginary born
in the front of the front, but the political career gave him the
opportunity to wash away his shameful deeds and the whole political
class - the revolt of 1907. Averescu was the one who carried out the
agrarian reform. Other achievements of its political activity were
monetary unification, financial reform. In his entire personality,
Alexander Averescu remains in national history, mainly through his
military achievements. He is one of our great commanders and
heroes in the First World War. And to Alexander Averescu we owe him
an eternal gratitude for his important contribution to Romania today!
