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Nicolae M. Nicolae
Former Ambassador
Born: November 3, 1924, Silistra, Durostor County (today
in Bulgaria)
Family: the father, Petru Nicolae Marin, was a
merchant and the owner of "Cristalul" Restaurant, Silistra. Part of
the first generation born in Cadrilater of the shepherd Petru Nicolae, from
Marginimea Sibiului (Tilisca). Mother, Louiza, was the daughter of a
Romanian woman from Bucharest and of a Bulgarian employee at the City of
Silistra. A sister, Stela Gheorghiu, used to be an employee at the
Institute of Hydro-Energetic Studies and Design in Bucharest
Married (1951) to Maria David, engineer (specialty
industrial chemistry), graduate of the Polytechnic Institute of Iasi, specialist
for electrotechnical materials
Studies
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1931-1935 - Primary School, Silistra
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1935-1940 - High School in Silistra. In 1940, evacuated from
Silistra, following the Treaty of Craiova, that was surrendered to
Bulgaria.
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1940-1943 - "Cantemir Voda" High School in
Bucharest. Attended also violin courses at the Royal Music Academy of
Bucharest, with prof. Alexandru Theodorescu
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1943-1948 -graduates the Polytechnic School of Bucharest as
an electromechanical engineer
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1950-1951 - one year specialization at High Voltage
Equipment Factory in Leningrad, former USSR
Career
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1948-1950 - engineer, Bucharest Trams Society
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1951-1953 - engineer, "Electroputere" Works,
Craiova
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1953-1957 - general director for Electrotechnical Industry,
Ministry of Electric Energy
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1957-1959 - director of "Electrotehnica" Factory,
Bucharest
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1959-1961 - director of "Tehnoimport" Foreign
Trade Enterprise, Bucharest
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1961-1966 - director of "Masinimport" Foreign
Trade Enterprise
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1966-1976 - successively deputy minister, first deputy
minister and finally minister secretary of state at the Ministry of Foreign
Trade
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1972-1976 - Romania's representative to COMECON Foreign
Trade Commission
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1972-1976 - head of the Romanian delegations to UNCTAD
Conferences of 1972 and 1976.
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1976 - participates at the G77 Conference in Manila,
Philippines
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1976-1978 - Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of
Romania to the United States of America, Washington D.C.
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1978-1984 - chairman of the planning and prognosis
Commission at the National Council for Science and Technology
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1984 - retired
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January 1990 - appointed minister of foreign trade, but
resigned shortly
Political Activity
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1944 - member of the Communist Youth Union of Romania
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1945-1989 - member of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP)
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1972-1974 - elected alternate member of the RCP Central
Committee
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1974-1979 - full member of the RCP Central Committee
Other Responsibilities
Affiliations
Publishing Activity
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an intense publishing activity in specialized magazines and
later on in the press, especially in "Revista Economica" (Economic
Review), on subjects concerning the developments and trends in the foreign
trade
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1987 - together with an expert team, elaborates a monograph
concerning the impact of the technical progress on the international trade
and, particularly, on the Romanian foreign trade, but due to the monograph
conclusions, it has never been published before 1989, but only after this
date, as a series in "Timpul 7 zile" Weekly.
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frequently publishes studies in "Magazinul Istoric"
(Historical Magazine)
"O lume asa cum am cunoscut-o. Amintirile unui fost
ambasador al Romaniei" (A world as I knew it. Memoirs of a former
ambassador of Romania), Pro Domo Publishing House, Bucharest, 2000
Hobbies
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