Aurel A. Vlad was a Romanian lawyer and politician who played an important role in Transylvania's union with Romania in 1918. He was a member of the Romanian National Party and later founded and led the Romanian National Christian Party. Vlad held several ministerial positions, including Minister of Finance from 1919-1920 and later Minister of Labor. In 1950, at age 75, he was arrested by the Securitate and imprisoned, where he died in 1953.

2. Aurel A. Vlad
(biographical
was a lawyer, a
lawyer, a
the Union since
a member of
Conducting
a member of
Romanian
Party and then
founder and
the PNT. He
Romania's
of Finance 1919-
later Minister of

3. • By his mother, he was a
nephew of Gheorghe
Bariţiu.
• The primary school and
then the Hungarian
Reformed High School
"Kún" in Orastie
followed, achieving the
best results in all
classes. He was
inclined towards
mathematics and Latin.
His teachers included
Elie Cristea, the future
Patriarch of Romania.

4. He was the second director of the
"Ardeleana" Bank and director and owner of
the newspaper "Solia Dreptăţii" from
Orastie.
Attending the parliamentary elections,
Aurel Vlad, entered as a deputy in the
Budapest Parliament in 1903 after winning
the official candidate of the government in
Dobra.
Aurel Vlad played a special role in
the autumn revolution of 1918, being
elected president of the Romanian
National Council in Orastie.
Following the Great National
Assembly in Alba Iulia on December
1, 1918, Aurel Vlad was elected a
member of the Congressional
Council, distributing his financial
resources

5. He was arrested by the Securitate in
Sibiu on the night of 5/6 May 1950,
the night of the dignitaries at the
age of 75 was brought to the Sighet
Prison on 7 May, being "interned" for
24 months. It was subsequently
included in the M.A.I. no. 334/1951.
Although he had already died in the
Sighet penitentiary on July 2, 1953,
according to the M.A.I. No 559 of 6
August 1953, his sentence was
increased by 60 months.