Iancu Flondor on a 2018 stamp of Romania

Iancu Flondor (3 August 1865 – 19 October 1924) was a Romanian politician who advocated Bukovina's union with the Kingdom of Romania.

He was born in the town of Storozhynets (Romanian: Storojineṭ) in Northern Bukovina (now in Ukraine). His parents were Gheorghe Flondor (1828–1892) and Isabella von Dobrowolski-Buchenthal (1835–1890). Married to Elena de Zotta, he fathered three sons: Șerban (1900–1971), Neagoe (1901–1952), and Mircea (1908–1928).

After graduating in 1884 from the German High School in Czernowitz with a baccalaureate degree, he studied at the Faculty of Law in Vienna (1885–1888), and obtained the *le of Doctor of Law from the University of Vienna in 1894.

During the winter of 1918, Flondor clashed with his rival Aurel Onciul over the political future of Bukovina, a dispute which culminated in the November request by the National Council of Bukovina, headed by Flondor, for an intervention by the Romanian Army into what had become a chaotic Bukovina at the end of World War I. Under those cir*stances, the Romanian government in Iași, wishing to protect the population, decided to send to Bukovina the 8th Division under the command of General Iacob Zadik, who entered Cernăuți, on 9 November 1918. On 12 November, the National Council of Bukovina effectively took the helm of Bukovina, forming a cabinet headed by Iancu Flondor. On 15/28 November 1918, the debates of General Congress of Bukovina opened at the Metropolitan Palace in Cernăuți and decided: "The unconditional and eternal union of Bukovina — within its old boundaries up to the rivers Ceremuș, Colacin, and Dniester — to the Kingdom of Romania".

Flondor's tomb in Storojineṭ

He died in Cernăuṭi (now Chernivtsi), and was buried in Storojineṭ.

A bust of Flondor, sculpted by Marcel Mănăstireanu:, was unveiled in Rădăuți in 2009. A street in Sector 2 of Bucharest bears his name.

References

Further reading

• (in Romanian) Cezar Vasiliu, "Dulce Bucovină, veselă grădină", Observatorul, 15 November 2003

Figures

• Ferdinand I of Romania (King)
• Marie of Romania (Queen)
• Ion I. C. Brătianu (Prime Minister)
• Alexandru Averescu
• Iancu Flondor
• Pan Halippa
• Iuliu Maniu

AccomplishmentDisestablishment

• Soviet occupation of Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region
• Second Vienna Award
• Treaty of Craiova
  • Population exchange between Bulgaria and Romania
• Recovery attempt of Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and Hertsa
  • Transnistria Governorate
• Paris Peace Treaties, 1947
• Moscow Protocol of 1948

Aftermath