Dumitru Cernicica

Who was Dumitru Cernicica?

Dumitru Cernicica was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian and Hungarian communist politician and engineer, who served in various economic-financial positions in the Romanian Communist government. Being associated with Vasile Luca, Minister of Finance, Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and vice-Premier, he eventually became a victim of communist repression. A member of the PCR before and after World War II, he was also clandestinely active within the Communist Party of Hungary in Northern Transylvania and Budapest between 1940 and 1944. In 1952, he was arrested and charged with being one in Luca's "right-wing deviationist", stripped of all positions, and incarcerated.