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| Birth Name(s) : Iosif Constantin Dragan |
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Full Iosif Constantin Dragan Biography
Iosif Constantin Drăgan (born June 20, 1917) is a Romanian and Italian businessman, writer and historian. In 2005, he was the second wealthiest Romanian, according to the Romanian financial magazine Capital, having a wealth estimated at $850 million. According to the same financial magazine, in 2006, he became the wealthiest Romanian, at $ 1.3-1.6 billion.
Born in Lugoj, he graduated from Law School at the University of Bucharest, and earned a scholarship at the University of Rome, where he studied political science and economics, earning a Ph.D. in law. At the time, Drăgan was attracted to fascist ideals and the Iron Guard, representing a corporatist trend inside the latter. In 1941, he started a company which exported Romanian petroleum products to Fascist Italy.
After World War II, in 1948, he established a gas distribution company in Italy, Butan Gas. After the war, with the Romanian Communist Party gaining power in Romania, he was not allowed for 30 years to return to Romania.
He has written many historical works associated with the Protochronism nationalist movement in Romanian history, which was later promoted by Nicolae Ceauşescu's regime. Despite being a sympathiser of the Iron Guard, Drăgan became a semi-official collaborator of Ceauşescu and the Communist regime, and as a result, he had access to some documents never published before on Ion Antonescu, using them in a four volume-book which put him in a good light.
After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he supported financially Eugen Barbu and Corneliu Vadim Tudor to launch their far right România Mare (România Mare) newspaper. Together with Vadim Tudor, he was the founder of "Liga Mareşal Ion Antonescu" in 1990, later renamed to "Liga Mareşalilor" following the changes in the Romanian legislation which disallowed the praise of the pro-Nazi dictator.
At age 78, Drăgan married Daniela Veronica Guşe, aged 22 at the time, the daughter of Ştefan Guşe, a Romanian Army General who disappeared in strange circumstances after the 1989 Revolution. Drăgan also has an older son, Mike Fink, born in 1971, who, in 2005, announced he could not contact by any means his father in the previous three years. Ziua reached the conclusion that Drăgan was being held captive by his younger wife and his business partners. However, he was seen dining in a restaurant only a few days later in Bucharest, together with his wife. |
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