Iosif Ardeleanu

Iosif Ardeleanu (born Adler Döme, September 25, 1909 – July 26, 1988) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian communist activist and bureaucrat.

He was born into a Hungarian-Jewish family in Salonta. After World War I, he moved with his family to Oradea, where he completed his secondary studies. In 1928 he went to Timișoara, where he was employed for 6 years by an iron commerce firm. During that time he changed his name and married his first wife, Gherghina. During World War II, Ardeleanu was detained at the Târgu Jiu internment camp for political prisoners, together with Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, and also at the Vapniarka concentration camp and in Grosulovo. He retired in 1973 and died in 1988 in Bucharest.