About Lothar Rădăceanu
Lothar or Lotar Rădăceanu (born Lothar Würzer or Würzel; May 19, 1899 – August 24, 1955) was a Romanian journalist and linguist, best known as a socialist and communist politician. == Biography == === Early life and politics === Born to an ethnic German family in Rădăuți, Bukovina (part of Austria-Hungary at the time), he trained in German studies and eventually became a professor at the University of Bucharest. From early on, Rădăceanu was a member of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSDR), one of its main ideologists and representatives in the Chamber of Deputies, as well as a regular contributor to the socialist journals Libertatea and Lumea Nouă. In the early 1930s, he shared his party's concerns regarding the predominant agricultural character of Romanian economy. He contributed to the Poporanist paper Viața Românească an article which stated that: Working in community and cooperative farming are the conditions for survival in peasant-based agriculture.The Social-Democratic Party [...] commits itself to carrying out a campaign of enlightenment in this direction and appeals to all enlightened peasants and all village intellectuals for help in this respect. He supported his party's alliance with the National Peasantists (PNȚ) during the late 1920s, and their collaboration in the 1928 election, but later criticized the PNȚ government for "proceeding with too little energy with the abolition of reactionary institutions". Like his fellow PSDR member Șerban Voinea, Rădăceanu advocated the thesis of Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea regarding the special conditions for socialism inside the Romanian economical framework; he accepted the views on Romanian economic history as formulated by Ștefan Zeletin, an advocate of economic liberalism, but disagreed with his conclusions regarding the fundamental role of the bourgeoisie. In late January 1933, the pro-democracy Rădăceanu had criticized the steps taken by King Carol II to institute a more authoritarian regime after the fall of Iuliu Maniu's PNȚ cabinet. Alluding to the event which had been used by Carol — the disagreement between Gavrilă Marinescu, the police prefect of Bucharest and a favourite of the king, and Ion Mihalache, the Minister of the Interior —, he stressed that: [The Maniu cabinet] was toppled by a police prefect, whom it could not remove from his office. It is not therefore the government who had the power to nominate and recall state officials, but an occult and irresponsible power, of which the Constitution makes no mention.
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