page_title: Alexandru Marghiloman
section_title: Cabinet and later years
hierarchical_section_title: Alexandru Marghiloman / Cabinet and later years
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Unterzeichnung des Friede von Bukarest zwischen den Mittelmächten und Rumänien am 7. Mai 1918: Der rumänische Ministerpräsident Marghiloman und seine Delegation bei der Unterzeichnung des Friedensvertrages, dahinter Vertreter der Mittelmächte. English: Romanian Prime Minister Marghiloman signing the Bucharest Peace Treaty with the Central Powers, 1918. Español: El primer ministro rumano, Alexandru Marghiloman, firmando el Tratado de Paz de Bucarest, 1918.
context_page_description: Alexandru Marghiloman was a Romanian conservative statesman who served for a short time in 1918 as Prime Minister of Romania, and had a decisive role during World War I.
context_section_description: However, since Bolshevist Russia withdrew from the war and the Germans could occupy the rest of Romania, King Ferdinand requested Marghiloman to become a Prime Minister, hoping that with a pro-German Prime Minister it would be easier to make peace with the Germans, and knowing that Germany would consider the Western Front to be much more important.
  Indeed, Marghiloman negotiated and signed a peace treaty (known as the Treaty of Bucharest) with the Central Powers on May 7, 1918, which proved to be very punitive and restrictive for Romania. However, this treaty was never ratified. Marghiloman's cabinet fell after the Compiègne armistice, and it was replaced quickly with the pro-Allied General Constantin Coandă on November 6, under whose cabinet Romania re-entered the war against Germany on November 10, a day before the end of the war. Retired from public life following the collapse of Conservative politicians in post-war Greater Romania, Marghiloman died in his native town.
caption: Alexandru Marghiloman signing the Treaty of Bucharest on May 7, 1918
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