George Mârzescu George G . Mârzescu ( also known as Gheorghe Gh . Mârzescu ; July 4 , 1876 – May 12 , 1926 ) was a Romania n lawyer , journalist and politician . A member of the National Liberal Party ( PNL ) , he was Minister of Agriculture ( 1916 – 1918 ) , Interior ( 1918 – 1919 ) , Labor and Social Protection ( 1922 – 1923 ) and Justice ( 1923 – 1926 ) in successive cabinets of Ion I . C . Brătianu . Biography . Descended from a Iaşi clerical family , his great - grandfather was the Romanian Orthodox archimandrite Gherasim Mârzescu , while his father Gheorghe Mârzescu was a prominent member of the city ' s liberal circles . He attended high school in his native city , began studying Law at the University of Iaşi , obtained his degree in the field from the University of Bucharest and studied for but did not complete a Law doctorate at the University of Paris . In 1896 , he worked as chief of staff at the Religious Affairs and Education Ministry headed by his father , and himself entered the PNL in 1901 . Between 1901 and 1904 , he was administrative director of Sfântul Spiridon Hospital and a substitute professor of civil law at the University of Iaşi . From 1904 to 1906 , he headed the liberal newspaper " Liberalul " . Elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1907 , he was also named deputy prefect of Iaşi County . In 1909 , he established the political newspaper " Mişcarea " . Elected mayor of Iaşi in 1914 , he served for two years . In November 1916 , he became vice president of the Chamber of Deputies . From December 1916 to January 1918 , he was Agriculture Minister in the cabinet of Ion I . C . Brătianu , whom he supported consistently . This was a coalition government between the PNL and the Conservative - Democratic Party , and was headquartered in Iaşi , where the government had withdrawn due to the occupation of Bucharest in World War I . Seeing food production as essential to the war effort , he and those around him took special measures : creating agricultural advisers with enhanced powers and county - level military structures ; directing agronomists to draw up harvest plans at the commune and county level ; ordering the land owned by mobilized troops to be farmed without pay by those left behind ; buying up with state funds all excess grain in order to combat speculation ; ordering all agricultural laborers , regardless of age or sex , to be requisitioned for farm work . In November 1918 , he was made Interior Minister , serving until the following September . His term coincided with worsening economic conditions that gave rise to social unrest that forces under his command were tasked with controlling . In On December 13 , 1918 , a typesetters ' protest in front of the National Theatre in the capital clashed with " Vânători de munte " troops , leaving six dead and numerous injured . The government blamed the incident on " Bolshevik elements " inspired by " anarchists in Russia " and " revolutionaries in Pest " ; among the socialist leaders arrested was I . C . Frimu . The following month , the government permitted socialist newspapers to publish again and their offices to reopen , while most of those detained were freed . From 1922 to 1923 he was Labor and Social Protection Minister , and Justice Minister from 1923 to 1926 . In that capacity , he pushed through a number of laws ; among the subjects these dealt with were acquisition and loss of Romanian citizenship ; combating offenses against public order ; simplifying legal procedures for speedier trials ; reorganizing courts , particularly in the territories acquired at the end of the war ; restricting firearm ownership ; simplifying procedures for heirs of those killed in action during the war ; reforming the High Court of Cassation and Justice ; and setting up a Legislative Council — the last two in pursuance of the new 1923 Constitution . The citizenship law allowed for the naturalization of Jews , which made Mârzescu a leading target for assassination by far right activist Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and his allies . Finally , Mârzescu championed a proposal that became known as the " Mârzescu Law " , adopted in February 1924 , that banned " extremist " parties and organizations . The law targeted the Romanian Communist Party , which was banned that April . It was motivated by an increased activity of the party and its support for self - determination to the point of secession of Bessarabia , Dobruja and Transylvania . The law , which effectively reduced the Communist group to a base of committed activists , was advocated by all the major political forces , ever since the party had publicized its pro - Comintern platform . He died of a serious illness in 1926 in Bucharest ; at the time , he was president of the Iaşi PNL chapter . He had two daughters and a son , and was buried alongside his father in the Eternitatea cemetery . A primary school in Iaşi bears his name .