Alexandru Vaida Voevod: From Spa Medicine to First Prime Minister of Greater Romania - 150 Years Since His Birth

Abstract

Alexandru Vaida Voevod, a physician and politician who served three times as prime minister of Romania (1919–20, 1932, 1933), was a leading spokesman for the union of Transylvania with the Old Romanian Kingdom (Moldavia and Wallachia). In 1896 he was a member of the Committee of the Romanian National Party, representing the pro-Habsburg group. Between 1906 and 1918 he was a deputy in the Budapest Parliament. After 1918, he became a member of the Governing Council and Prime minister on December 9, 1919. During the Interwar period, he held the position of Prime minister as well as Minister of internal and foreign affair in several governments and President of the Council of Ministers. He died in Sibiu on March 19, 1950