ALEXANDRU MARGHILOMAN

1. Faculty of Management, Economic
Engineering in Agriculture and Rural
Development
Alexandru Marghiloman

2. Alexandru Marghiloman (4 July 1854 – 10 May 1925) was a
Romanian conservative statesman who served for a short time in
1918 (March–October) as Prime Minister of Romania, and had a
decisive role during World War I.

3. Born in Buzău, he entered the Saint Sava National College in Bucharest, and
then studied Law in Paris. Marghiloman was elected to the Romanian
Parliament in 1884, and joined the government in 1888.
A member of the Conservative Party, he supported cooperation with the
German Empire and in the Triple Alliance, and, at the beginning of World War
I, he favoured neutrality. Romania remained neutral until 1916, when she
entered on the Allied side and this was the reason he refused a seat in the Ion
Brătianu's liberal government.

4. After the Germans occupied Bucharest, he remained there as the president of
the Romanian Red Cross, and acted as a mediator between the German
occupation authorities and the Romanian population. He rejected the ideas of
the German side of forming a parallel administration to King Ferdinand I's
government that was moved to Iaşi.

5. In his private life, Marghiloman was also an enthusiastic horse breeder:
horses owned by him won the Romanian Derby 28 times. His large estate, the
Albatros Villa (named after one of his horses) in Buzău, was for a long time a
meeting place for Conservative politicians.
Marghiloman gave his name to Marghiloman coffee, Turkish coffee boiled in
brandy.

6. Bibliografie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru_Marghiloman