Henri Cihoski

Henri Cihoski (October 2, 1871 – May 18, 1950) was a Romanian major general during World War I, and Minister of War from 1928 to 1930.

Biography Early days He was born on October 2, 1871, in Tecuci, the seat of Tecuci County, in a family of Polish origin. His mother was Eugenie, née Dobjansky, while his father was Alexandru Cihoski, an engineer who had fought as a cavalry officer in the Polish January Uprising of 1863 before emigrating to Romania. He had two sisters and two brothers, one of whom, Alexandru-Eugeniu, became a brigadier general, and the other, , became a professor and rector at the Academy of Commercial Studies.

After attending elementary school in his native city, Henri Cihoski pursued his studies at the Gheorghe Roșca Codreanu High School in Bârlad and then at high schools in Bucharest and Iași. He studied for two more years at the School of Artillery and Military Engineering and was promoted to lieutenant in January 1894, after which he moved to Focșani, where he worked on the fortifications of the Focșani–Nămoloasa–Galați line at the Focșani Gate. In 1895 he was admitted at the Higher War School, graduating in 1897 second in his class,

After the war he was promoted to major general and in 1919 he served as Deputy Chief of General Staff during the Hungarian–Romanian War.

The interwar In December 1920, two years after the Union of Transylvania with Romania, he was put in charge of reorganizing the army in Transylvania. The next year, he was tasked with supervising the coronation of King Ferdinand I of Romania and the construction of the Coronation Cathedral in Alba Iulia. He served as Minister of War in the First Maniu cabinet, from 10 November 1928 to 4 April 1930. On 5 March 1931 he resigned from the Army and was named lieutenant general in the Army Reserves the next day. After Cihoski was arrested in May 1950, his family was evicted from their house and their belongings were confiscated; in September 1950, Sofia Ferhat appealed for redress to the Interior Minister, Teohari Georgescu.