Jean Pangal : documente inedite 1932-1942 : contribuții la analiza rețelelor sociale istorice

Abstract

Related by marriage or a direct descendant of three W Wallachian noble families of tertiary rank - Brătășanu (17th century), Djuvara (18th century) and Pangal (19th century) - who together gave modern Romania at least two ministers, an undersecretary of state and six deputies or senators, Jean Pangal is the central character of this volume. A politician, diplomat and absolute leader of Romanian Freemasonry in the inter-war period, Jean Pangal is the main subject of the 474 informative notes, published for the first time in full in this book, and compiled between 1932-1942 by the Secret Intelligence Service of the Romanian Army and the Security Police of the Ministry of the Interior. Jean Pangal, nicknamed the Sovereign Prince of Romanian Freemasonry by the press of the time, is little known today, but he was extremely controversial and influential in the interwar period, especially due to his personal relationships and direct contacts with the entire political, social, economic and diplomatic elite of Romania, and even of Europe.