“Among the greatest people in the history of Romania, he told me” son “

Maurer was at the peak of communist power in the mid -1960s and early 1970s and gave up functions due to a car accident.

“One of the greatest people I met in my life was Ion Gheorghe Maurer. A man of great quality. See a special quality, see a little and Sorbonne, and the education from which it came … but the vision that Maurer had … I remember when, in 1973, Maurer gave up in one day the positions of prime minister, secretary general of the Communist Party and the party.

He said, “The dust is chosen, look what Ceauseșcu does!” He said publicly, and Ceausescu did not have the courage to do anything. And on January 2, in 1990, when I saw Maurer, after 10 years, at his home, he had a cataract he did not operate. He was already the secretary of state of the United Kingdom. I apologized, I gave a good day, but he said, “Stay here, son, I haven't seen you for 10 years.” I witnessed the most beautiful political history lesson in this world.

Two phrases. What Gorbachev did for this world, I have been waiting for years and years, since 1968, since she was spring in Prague. Maurer was an example, the days and hunters spent with him opened my mind a little different ”, explained Ion Țiriac at Podcastul Sports School.

Ion Gheorghe Maurer and Nicolae Ceausescu

A bet with Maurer made Ion Țiriac to shave his mustache

One of Ion Tiriac's oldest friends, Gunther Bosch, tells that “I played tennis with the most important man in the state, Gheorghe Maurer. Then he came to play Ion Țiriac, my friend. Gradually his relationship with Maurer became very good, so he got to take my place.

Maurer learned Tiriac to hunt. Witnesses of those times claim that at a hunting party, in 1968, Maurer and Tiriac bet at the age of a broken bear. The first one won and put on Tiriac to laugh at his famous mustache. The former tennis player did not confirm the event, although it appears in a few photos of the time and without a mustache, along with Maurer.

The relationship with Maurer, one of the most powerful communist leaders of the 1950s -70s brought many advantages to Tiriac, held 10 years ago Jean Maurer, the son of the former prime minister, in an interview for “Freedom”.

Tiriac kept his passport and after returning from traveling abroad and could change the currency in lei at a more advantageous course. Dad was a mentor for iaciriac, who turned out to be a big profiter. Benefited from the relationship with my father to gain immunity. When my father aged, after the Revolution he took the collection of 32 weapons for only 60,000 brands, although it was worth ten times more. He also took paintings from my parents' house through his sister, Rodica Țiriac
– Jean Maurer

What do historians say about Ion Gheorghe Maurer

Jean Georges Maurer, as he passed in the birth certificate, was born in 1902, died in 2000 and was a convinced Marxist until the end of his life. He was the “right hand of Dej”, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania (1957-1958), president of the Great National Assembly (1957-1958) and the longest prime minister (1961-1974).

In 1974, following a car accident, Ion Gheorghe Maurer was retired, but he kept all the privileges, such as the pension of 15,000 lei and the protocol villa in Aviatorilor Boulevard, from no. 104, notes HotNews.ro.

Tenacity, iron will, non -unpunished and non -inducing nature, ideological intransigence, skillful through the superficial bourgeois polythete, these were the attributes of the political personality called Ion Gheorghe Maurer. A pernicious combination of fanaticism and hedonism. He played a decisive role, together with Emil Bodnaras and Chivu Stoica, in the installation of Nicolae Ceausescu in March 1965. He woke up late and did nothing to limit the aberrations imposed by Ceausescu. The maximum delimitation was that he applauded less enthusiastically than others. I do not deny that, between 1963 and 1968, he supported some internal reforms, that he was not a maniac of forced industrialization and that he respects cultural values. It did not have the painful inhibitions of unusual activists when traveling in the west and encouraged a foreign policy with some autonomous aspects. He played a remarkable role in conceiving the April 1964 statement. He met Mao Zedong and Nikita Khrusciov, he knew how to defend the Romanian neutrality in the conflict between the two communist super-users. He had real diplomat qualities, a mediator.
– Vladimir Tismaneanu, in a portrait on contributors.ro

Dej told me about Ceausescu as a work man. Others .. the others were drinking. Dej told me that Ceausescu didn't drink, he works, he sees the job, he told me well. I proposed Ceausescu, seeing him younger, more stupid and, in my imagination, controllable as general secretary of the PCR (…). I did not hate Ceausescu, but I despised him. Human speaking, I loved three things: women, hunting and good wines. But I realized on my own skin as Ceausescu is dangerous and that it goes on a dictatorial leadership line, that he is not a man of conviction. He then agreed to leave, to resign, because he could say that I left as a result of the accident, that I could no longer work. So I went out to retire
– Ion Gheorghe Maurer in a discussion with the historian Marius Oprea, March 1996

Ion Țiriac's terminals

• Date of Birth: May 9, 1939, Brașov

• Debut in professional tennis tournaments: 1968

• Year of withdrawal: 1979

• Simple victories/defeats: 151/159

• Best Slam Sland Slam performance: “quarters” Roland Garros (1968)

• Double victories/defeats: 293/140

• Number double titles: 22

• Best Grand Slam double performance: Roland Garros winner (1970, with Ilie Nastase)

• Between 1958 and 1964 he was a member of the Romanian ice hockey team, with whom he participated in the Innsbruck winter and CM

• He played three Davis Cup finals, all lost in front of the US, with Ilie Nastase Partner: 1969, 1970, 1972

• He was manager and coach of great tennis players: Ilie Năstase, Guillermo Vilas, Henri Leconte, Boris Becker, Marie Joe Fernandez, Steffi Graf, Marat Safin, Anke Huber, Goran Ivanisevici

• He became the first Romanian in history whose wealth has exceeded the barrier of one billion euros in the Forbes top