HEADS OF THE GALAȚI REGIONAL SECURITY DIRECTORATE (1948–1968) AND COMMANDERS OF THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR AND SECURITY – GALAȚI COUNTY (1968–1989). BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Abstract

35 years after the collapse of the communist regime in Romania, there is a need to compile a complete list of officers who worked within the feared communist political police, the Securitate. The author of this article has researched the documents existing within the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives for many years and compiled thousands of biographical sheets of officers who worked within the political police. In this article, the author presents the biographies of the commanders who headed the Galați Regional Security Directorate, which covered a large area of ​​southeastern Romania (which also included a large number of forced labour camps and areas with compulsory residence), but also the biographies of those who led the branches of the Securitate and the Ministry of the Interior in Galați County, after the administrative reform of 1968 was applied in Romania, when the regions were replaced with smaller administrative units in terms of area, the counties.