FUNCŢIONARII PUBLICI „REGĂŢENI” ÎN NOILE PROVINCII ALE ROMÂNIEI MARI, 1918-1925
THE CIVIL SERVANTS FROM THE OLD KINGDOM IN THE NEW PROVINCES OF GREATER ROMANIA, 1918–1925

Summary/Abstract: After the Great Union, the temporary institutions of Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transylvania chose through decree-laws to keep the legislation of the previous state authorities, with the laws of the Old Kingdom introduced to different degrees, being more limited in Bukovina and Transylvania and more pronounced in Bessarabia. This first step in the administrative unification process, which ended on January 1st, 1926 (once the June 14th, 1925 law came into effect), was not accompanied only by assigning public offices to certain locals, but also to Romanians of the Old Kingdom. Indeed, as early as the first months after the Union, public opinion and the local elites expressed their dissatisfaction with the entry of Romanians from the Old Kingdom (regățeni) into the local administration, as well as of certain administrative practices considered to be characteristic of Bucharest (corruption, nepotism, politicization, excessive centralization to the detriment of autonomy). Our study proposes a general and concise exposition of the historical context, main characteristics, as well as causes and institutional or personal motivations which led to the assigning of some Old Kingdom civil servants to the new provinces of Greater Romania between 1918 and 1925. We will attempt to determine the significance, scale and consequences of this process.

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