Dictionar biografic
Biographical Dictionary

Summary/Abstract: Victor Ion Kreissl was bom on January 10, 1931 in Cemauti and attended the first grades at the Ion Heliade Radulescu High School. Beginning in June 1940, the Kreissls were forced to seek refuge at Câmpina. After the occupier had changed, in the autumn of 1944, they were harassed because of the father’s German origin. The young Victor Ion Kreissl enrolled in sixth grade at the Ion Maiorescu High School, wherefrom he graduated in 1949. On September 2, 1949 he was arrested, questioned at the headquarters ofthe political police in Giurgiu and then transferred to the Uranus military prison in Bucharest. By the ruling no. 1354 of December 21, 1949, the Bucharest Military Court sentenced Victor Ion Kreissl to six years in prison for sedition. He spent his prison term at the jails of Jilava, Targsor, Peninsula and Aiud. He was released on August 31, 1955. Leonte Tismăneanu (Leonid Tisminetski by his real name) was born in 1913 at Soroca. He joined the Communist Party in 1933. In 1935, Leonte Tismăneanu was expelled from university because of his communist activism and sent to prison together with Grigore Preoteasa, who would later be foreign minister of Romania (October 4, 1955 - July 16, 1957). When his term in prison ended, Leonte Tismăneanu participated in the war in Spain and later sought refuge with his wife in the USSR, becoming an editor with Radio Moscow in 1941. Returning to Romania in March 1948, he was appointed editor-inchief of the Publishing House for Political Literature (set up in October 1944) and head of the Marxism chair. Toward the end of the ‘50s, he fell out with Gheorghiu-Dej and was expelled from the Romanian Workers Party in 1960, only to be readmitted on February 18, 1964.

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