George Macovescu

George Macovescu (; 28 May 1913 – 20 March 2002) was a Romanian writer and communist politician who served as the General Secretary of Ministry of Information of Romania and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania.

Life and political career He was born in Joseni, Buzău County. In the 1930s, George Macovescu wrote articles for several left-wing newspapers, such as Adevărul and Dimineața. In 1939, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Law School. In 1936, he joined the then illegal Communist Party of Romania, and after World War II started, he supported the anti-Nazi forces in German-aligned Romania. Around this time he also married a Jewish wife, Teri Ungar (Tereza). In 1961, upon his return to Romania, he was appointed the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and in 1967 he became the First Deputy Minister subsequently becoming the Minister of Foreign Affairs on 18 October 1972. As the deputy minister and later minister, he took part in establishing better relations with Israel and tried to increase mediating role of Romania in Israeli–Egyptian conflict. Macovescu served as Minister until 1978. At the time, he was married to his second wife, Emilia Marinela Macovescu.

Macovescu also headed the Writers' Union of Romania from 1978 until 1982. It was in this role in 1979, as a delegate to the XII Romanian Communist Party Congress representing the Writers' Union, that Macovescu rose to discredit a dissident speech by Constantin Pîrvulescu which denounced Nicolae Ceaușescu's leadership as party leader; Macovescu defended Ceaușescu and called on the delegates to "pretend that we didn't even hear what Comrade Pîrvulescu said." From 1949 until 1981, he also taught at Department of Romanian Language and Literature of the University of Bucharest.