Ștefan Foriș
Hungarian politician from Romania (1892-1946) · Romania · On the map · Politicians · Died at 54
Ștefan Foriș was a Hungarian and Romanian communist journalist who served as general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party between December 1940 and April 1944. Born a Transylvanian Csángó and an Austro-Hungarian subject, he saw action with the Hungarian Landwehr throughout World War I.
Ștefan Foriș is read about 27 times a day, in 12 languages.
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Ștefan and Loti Foriș
Communists from the various Sectors of Bucharest, attending a National Peasants' Party rally (31 May 1936). On the left, the communist slogan: Vrem justiție populară / Jos justiția de clasă ("We demand popular justice / down with class justice"); on the right, National Peasantist signs celebrating Iuliu Maniu and the "Peasant State"
Union of Communist Youth manifesto against the National Renaissance Front and for "avoiding war", put out in Bessarabia in 1940
Mug shot of Petre "Zidaru" Gheorghe upon his arrest in April 1942
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (left) escaping from Târgu Jiu camp on 10 August 1944. Propaganda drawing from 1960
Skulls of Foriș, Nicolae Pârgariu, and another male victim (possibly Petre Melinte), dug up and photographed during the rehabilitation of 1968
Foriș and Victoria Sârbu, candid shot of ca. 1944About this person
While training in mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University, he affiliated with the Galileo Circle and, moving to the far-left, entered the Hungarian Communist Party in late 1918. During the brief existence of a Hungarian Soviet Republic, he joined the war against Romania (1919), but subsequently opted to settle in the Romanian Kingdom, at Brașov. Foriș emerged as a local leader of the Socialist Party, largely failing at convincing his subordinates to join the PCR upon its creation (1921). He took up underground work even before the PCR was formally outlawed, while establishing his public profile as an accountant and a correspondent for moderate left-wing newspapers - including Adevărul and Facla.
