Teofil Sidorovici

Teofil Sidorovici
Born(1896-02-13)13 February 1896
Bucșoaia, Duchy of Bukovina, Austria-Hungary
Died22 November 1940(1940-11-22) (aged 44)
Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
AllegianceRomania
Service / branchStraja Țării
RankGeneral
RelationsAlexandra Sidorovici (sister)
Other workMinister of National Propaganda

General Teofil Gh. Sidorovici (13 February 1896 – 22 November 1940) was one of the commanders of the Straja Țării (Watchmen), a paramilitary youth organization in the Kingdom of Romania, created in 1935,[1] and Minister of National Propaganda in the sixth Gheorghe Tătărescu cabinet, after the resignation of Constantin C. Giurescu.

He was born in Bucșoaia village, part of the Duchy of Bukovina within Austria-Hungary at the time, now in Romania's Suceava County.

Sidorovici committed suicide in Bucharest on 22 November 1940.[2]

His sister was the Stalinist Alexandra Sidorovici, who became a public prosecutor of the People's Tribunals, an office which allowed her to ask for death sentences for many collaborators of the Ion Antonescu regime;[3] she was a member of the nomenklatura of the Communist government.[4][5]

  1. ^ John S. Wilson (1959), Scouting Round the World. First edition, Blandford Press. p. 116, 158
  2. ^ Argetoianu 2007, p. 520
  3. ^ (in Romanian) Vladimir Tismăneanu, "Dubioasa convertire a lui Silviu Brucan" ("Silviu Brucan's Dubious Conversion") Archived 2007-03-09 at the Wayback Machine, in 22, September–October 2006
  4. ^ (in Romanian) Ondine Gherguț, "Brucan, condamnat în procesul cu Vasile Lupu" ("Brucan, Sentenced in His Trial with Vasile Lupu") Archived 2007-10-13 at the Wayback Machine in Evenimentul Zilei, February 15, 2002
  5. ^ Victor Frunză, Istoria stalinismului în România ("The History of Stalinism in Romania"), Humanitas, Bucharest, 1990, p. 227, 302, 471