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Jan 21, 1871 Bogdănești, Suceava County, Romania Died on 16 Jul 1936 (aged 65)
Romanian general
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About Nicolae Alevra
- Nicolae Alevra (21 January 1871, Bogdane?ti, Baia County, Romania – 16 July 1936, Palanca, Bacau County, Romania) was a Romanian brigadier general and politician who held was Minister of Communications in the first government of Iuliu Maniu. Alevra's military education started at ?coala Fiilor de Militari, in Ia?i, and continued in Bucharest, where he graduated in 1891 from ?coala militara de Artilerie (Artillery Military School) with the rank of second lieutenant.
- He studied at Gratz, then at the Upper School of War.Alevra served during the First World War, appointed in 1917 to brigadier general, and served as the head of the General High Command.
- In 1922 he withdrew from the army to dedicate himself to writing, in December 1927 becoming a member of the National Peasants' Party, which propelled him to serve as communications minister.In that capacity, he went to the site of the railway accident at Boboc, where in April 1929 a derailed train caused the deaths of 20 people and injured a few dozen others.He was a proponent of Romanian military doctrine and arts.
- He appreciated that the national military doctrine must be developed by affirming the principle of the "armed nation." Appreciating that after the achievement of the Great Union of Transylvania, Bessarabia, and Bukovina with the Kingdom of Romania in 1918, Romania would continue to have enemies, Alevra considered that the only war that could be accepted or envisaged was a defensive war.
- Alevra was elected to the Romanian Academy of Sciences on 21 December 1935.
