Primii funcționari din Vechiul Regat în Basarabia (27 martie − 27 noiembrie 1918)
THE FIRST CIVIL SERVANTS FROM THE OLD KINGDOM IN BESSARABIA (27 MARCH − 27 NOVEMBER 1918)

Summary/Abstract: The present study proposes an analysis of assignments in various State departments, including in magistracy, within Bessarabia immediately after the union with Romania, covering a time frame of eight months, which was, however, defining for the following status of this province within Greater Romania. During this period of regional autonomy, some individuals from the Old Kingdom were rapidly appointed in the administration, magistracy, the police and security forces by the Romanian government, in spite of the ensuing objections of the local populace and elites. Our research details the first stage of entry of civil servants from the Old Kingdom into various public posts in Bessarabia and tries to find an answer as to why the Alexandru Marghiloman cabinet chose this solution, as well as the reasons Romanian dignitaries and magistrates accepted or desired to be transferred to the east of the Pruth river before 27 November 1918. As a result, the intensity of this process was not only caused by the lack of administrative experience of the Romanian populace, rather we believe it is due to reasons pertaining to internal conditions and conditionings of the Romanian state, the international context, and not least to the fact that, for many of the dignitaries, magistrates and civil servants of the Old Kingdom, this stage was an advancement.

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