Gavril Olteanu (1888–1946) was a leader of a Romanian paramilitary militia group, part of the Maniu Guards during World War II, which became notorious for the killing and deportation of ethnic Hungarians in Transylvania.
[2] After Northern Transylvania was ceded by Romania to Hungary in 1940, as a result of the Second Vienna Award, he moved to Brașov, where he took command of a paramilitary unit of the Iron Guard.
During World War II, this unit was active in Trei Scaune, Ciuc, Odorhei, and Mureș counties.
On 26 September 1944, in reprisals against attacks on Romanian troops by the local population, members of the paramilitary Maniu Guard led by Olteanu massacred a number of Hungarian civilians in Aita Seacă village; 9 were shot, 2 decapitated, and 2 later died of their wounds.
[3][4] At the request of Soviet representatives Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Vyshinsky and Vladislav Petrovich Vinogradov on behalf of the Allied Control Commission,[5] Romanian authorities disbanded the Maniu Guard, arrested Olteanu, and sentenced him to imprisonment.