Vasile Marin

Vasile Marin (Bucharest, January 29 1904 - Majadahonda, January 13 1937) was a politician, public servant and lawyer. Member of the National Peasants' Party until 1932, Vasile Marin become a prominent member of the Iron Guard.

Biography

His law thesis, finished in 1932 at the University of Bucharest was entitled: "The Fascism". In 1936-1937 along with Ion Moţa, led a force of Legionnaires into Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Moţa and Marin's forces died (January 13 1937) during the first day of fighting at Majadahonda on the Madrid front. Their funerals in Bucharest (February 13 1937) were an immense and orderly processionFact|date=July 2007 attended by the Ministers of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Francisco Franco's Spain, representatives of Portugal, the Japan of the early Shōwa period, and delegates of the Polish Patriotic Youth.

An monument was erected at Majadahonda, on September 13 1970, with support of Franco's government.

References

*"The Green Shirts and the Others: A History of Fascism in Hungary and Rumania" by Nicholas M. Nagy-Talavera (Hoover Institution Press, 1970).
*"Romania" by Eugen Weber, in "The European Right: A Historical Profile" edited by Hans Rogger and Eugen Weber (University of California Press, 1965)
* "The Romanian Legionary's Mission in Spain" (Part III, A., xi Romania, 116.) in "Fascism" (Oxford Readers) edited by Roger Griffin (Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0192892495).
*"Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890" by Philip Rees (Simon & Schuster, 1991, ISBN 0130893013).

External links

* [http://hist.academic.claremontmckenna.edu/jpetropoulos/ironguard/leaders.htm Leadership of the Iron Guard] and [http://hist.academic.claremontmckenna.edu/jpetropoulos/ironguard/culture.htm Culture and Cultural Policy] at Claremont McKenna College.