Grigore C. Crăiniceanu

General Grigore C. Crăiniceanu
Crăiniceanu as War Minister in 1910
13th Chief of the Romanian General Staff
In office 1 April 1907 – 1 November 1909
Monarch	Carol I
Prime Minister	Dimitrie Sturdza Ion I. C. Brătianu
Preceded by	Nicolae Tătărăscu [ro]
Succeeded by	Ioan Istrati [ro]
33rd Minister of War of Kingdom of Romania
In office 1 November 1909 – 28 December 1910
Prime Minister	Ion I. C. Brătianu
Preceded by	Toma Stelian [ro]
Succeeded by	Nicolae Filipescu
Personal details
Born	(1852-07-09)July 9, 1852 Bucharest, Wallachia
Died	October 1, 1935(1935-10-01) (aged 83)
Nationality	Romanian
Children	Constantin Crăiniceanu [ro]
Military service
Branch/service	Romanian Land Forces
Rank	divisional general
Battles/wars	Romanian War of Independence World War I

Grigore C. Crăiniceanu (9 July 1852, Bucharest – 1 October 1935) was a Romanian military officer.

He participated in the Romanian War of Independence.^[1] From 1904 to 1907, he was inspector general of military engineers. From 1907 to 1909, Crăiniceanu was Chief of the Romanian General Staff. In 1909, he was promoted to divisional general. From November 1909 to December 1910, he served as War Minister in the cabinet of Ion I. C. Brătianu.^[2] In 1911, he was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy.^[3]

From 1911 to 1913, he commanded the Second Army Corps. Sent into reserve in 1913, he was recalled to active duty upon Romania's entry into World War I, commanding the Second Army during the Battle of Transylvania, from August 25 to September 25, 1916. Then, from 1916 to 1917, Crăiniceanu was inspector general of the army. His son, Lieutenant colonel Constantin Crăiniceanu [ro], was allegedly recruited by the German secret service while he was the Romanian military attaché in Vienna (1914–1916) and was executed for treason in April 1917 after he had attempted desertion to the Germans, as part of a plot masterminded by Colonel Alexandru D. Sturdza [ro], the son of the former prime minister Dimitrie Sturdza.^[4]

Crăiniceanu founded two magazines, Revista Armatei and Cercul publicațiilor militare.^[2]

Notes

1. Nicolae Iorga, Voința obștii românești, p. 184. Bucharest: Editura Militară, 1983
2. Alexandru Averescu, Notițe zilnice din război: 1916-1918, p. 113. Bucharest: Editura Militară, 1992, ISBN 978-973-320-261-5
3. (in Romanian) Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent at the Romanian Academy site
4. Stănescu, Manuel. "Alexandru Sturdza, un trădător din convingere". Historia (in Romanian). Retrieved October 28, 2020.