OMUL DĂNILĂ PAPP: ASPECTE ȘI SECVENȚE DIN VIAȚA PERSONALĂ (SOCIAL-COMUNITARĂ) ÎNTRE 1900-1950
THE MAN DĂNILĂ PAPP: ASPECTS AND SEQUENCES OF HIS PERSONAL LIFE (SOCIAL-COMMUNITY) BETWEEN 1900-1950

Summary/Abstract: In the next study that we submit to your attention, we present brief sequences from the life of the Transylvanian Romanian officer Dănilă Papp. He served in the Austro-Hungarian imperial army, and since the fall of 1918 we find him in the service of the Governing Council of Transylvania. Thenafter, on the background of the intercalation in the Royal Army of Great Romania, the former commander of the Papp Brigade on the fronts of the First World War in Galicia, Bucovina and Northern Italy advanced hierarchically in the service of the Romanian state. He held in the inter-war periode command positions in Sibiu at the head of the Transylvanian 18th Infantry Brigade, which he lead in the Romanian Army's Tisa campaign, and then from 1923, at the head of the I and VI Army Corps of Roamnian Army from Craiova and Cluj. In 1930 he was transferred to the reserve position of the army corps he commanded. Between 1930-1937 General Papp was active in the General Association of United Romanians, in the Cultural League and also in the Transylvanian Association. We find him a Senior advisor in the service of the Superior Council of the Ministry of National Defense, offering his services at the request of the Romanian sovereign Carol II for the fortification of the western front, generically called the "Carol II fortified line". He served in the dignity of royal resident in Alba Iulia at the head of the Mureș Province during the reign of sovereign Charles II between August 18, 1938 and September 13, 1940. Close friend of the Romanian Greek-Catholic prelates: Î.P.S. Alexandru Nicolescu and P.S. Valer Traian Frențiu, at the proposal of the new leader of the Romanian state I. Antonescu, was appointed minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of the Kingdom of Romania to the Vatican. From September 1943, he returned to Sibiu and participated in the activity of the AGRU, of which he was acting president since 1937. In 1947, he was promoted to the rank of general of the army corps. He lived the last years of his life in Sibiu and Cluj, in great privations and under the careful monitoring of the new authorities of the Romanian state. He died in March 1950 and was buried in the Central Cemetery in Cluj.

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