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Place of Birth: Arad County, Romania
About Iosif Rangheț
- Iosif Ranghe? (born Rangecz József; August 7, 1904 – September 1, 1952) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian communist activist and politician. Born into an ethnic Hungarian family, Ranghe? was a native of Olari, Arad County.
- A leather dresser by profession, he joined a trade union in 1920 and became a member of the banned Romanian Communist Party (PCR) in 1930.
- He sat on the party's Arad County committee from 1931 to 1932, was secretary of the Oradea regional committee from 1932 to 1933.
- He held a similar post for Cluj from 1933 to 1934; that year, he became head of the Banat and Jiu Valley regional committees.
- From 1943 until his death, he was a member of the party's central committee.During World War II, Ranghe? formed part of a small group of Romanian communists who were neither in exile in Moscow nor imprisoned.
- He participated at an April 4, 1944 meeting in the Târgu Jiu prison camp hospital where, according to an official version later disseminated by the party, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej demanded the removal of party general secretary Stefan Foris on the grounds that he was a police informer.
- Upon his removal, those present appointed a provisional secretariat to head the party; it consisted of Emil Bodnara?, Constantin Pîrvulescu and Ranghe?.
- This troika remained in office until September 1944, by which time the PCR had been legalized in the aftermath of the King Michael Coup.
- Beginning in April 1948, Ranghe?, together with Teohari Georgescu, Alexandru Draghici and, at times, Gheorghiu-Dej, belonged to a party commission charged with investigating the arrested communist and former Justice Minister Lucre?iu Patra?canu.From 1945 to 1948, Ranghe? headed the PCR's cadres section; from 1949 to 1950, he presided over the state combustibles committee.
- He was elected to the Assembly of Deputies for Timi?-Torontal County in 1946.
- In 1948, following the establishment of a Communist regime, he obtained an Arad seat in the Great National Assembly, holding it until his death.
- Also in 1948, he became an alternate member of the politburo.Ranghe? held a degree from the Moscow State V.
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- Lenin Pedagogical Institute.
- He was awarded the Order of the Star of the Romanian People's Republic, first class in 1948; the Defense of the Fatherland Order, second class and the Order of Labor, second class in 1949; and the medal for freeing the fatherland from the fascist yoke.
- He was married to Sanda Ranghe?, who survived him.
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