Ana Pauker

Ana Pauker
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
30 December 1947 – 9 July 1952
PresidentConstantin Ion Parhon
Petru Groza
Prime MinisterPetru Groza
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Preceded byGheorghe Tătărescu
Succeeded bySimion Bughici
Personal details
BornHannah Rabinsohn
(1893-12-28)28 December 1893
Died3 June 1960(1960-06-03) (aged 66)
PartyRomanian Communist Party
Other political
affiliations
Social Democratic Party of Romania
Socialist Party of Romania
French Communist Party
Spouse
(m. 1921; div. 1930)
Domestic partnerEugen Fried
ChildrenTanio, Vlad, Tatiana, Masha (Maria), Alexandru (adopted)
OccupationCommunist activist
ProfessionTeacher
ParentsSarah and (Tsvi-)Hersh Kaufman Rabinsohn
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Ana Pauker (born Hannah Rabinsohn; 28 December 1893 – 3 June 1960) was a Romanian communist leader and served as the country's foreign minister in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Ana Pauker became the world's first female foreign minister when entering office in December 1947. She was also the unofficial leader of the Romanian Communist Party immediately after World War II, and oversaw the Pitești Experiment, called by Nobel Laureate and Gulag survivor Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn "the most terrible act of barbarism in the contemporary world". After the purging of Pauker, the experiment was halted because the Romanian communist regime was sidelining its hardline Stalinist leaders.