Pantelimon Erhan

Pantelimon Erhan
Prime Minister of Moldova^1
In office 21 December 1917 – 30 Januuary 1918
President	Ion Inculeţ
Preceded by	formation of the Republic
Succeeded by	Daniil Ciugureanu
Director General for Agriculture
In office 1917–1918
Succeeded by	Emanoil Catelli
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 1917–1918
Personal details
Born	1884 Tănătari, Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire (now Moldova)
Died	1971 Bucharest, Communist Romania
Religion	Eastern Orthodoxy
1. The name was President of the Council of Directors General.

Pantelimon Erhan (1884–1971) was a Moldovan politician and prime minister of the Moldavian Democratic Republic (1917–1918).

Biography

Pantelimon Erhan was born in 1884 in Tănătari, Căușeni District. He died in 1971 in Bucharest.

Prime minister

He was the first prime minister of the Moldavian Democratic Republic (21 December [O.S. 8 December] 1917 - 30 January [O.S. 17 January] 1918).

On 21 December [O.S. 8 December] 1917, Sfatul Ţării elected the Pantelimon Erhan Cabinet (named the Council of Directors General), with nine members and with Pantelimon Erhan as President of the Council of Directors General and Director General for Agriculture. The Agrarian reform was a cornerstone priority of the Moldavian Democratic Republic government.

The presence of the Romanian army in Moldavian Democratic Republic has caused tension within the Council, with some of its members, Pantelimon Erhan protesting against it.^[1] In particular they feared that big land owners-dominated Romanian Government could use the troops to prevent the envisaged Agrarian reform, a cornerstone priority of the Moldavian Democratic Republic government.^[2]

See too

• Pantelimon Erhan Cabinet

Notes

1. Charles Upson Clark, "Bessarabia", Chapter XIX, New York, 1926, available online here
2. P.Halippa, A.Moraru, Testament pentru urmasi, 2nd edition, Hyperion, Chisinau, 1991, p.85-87