Iosif Ardeleanu (born Adler Döme, September 25, 1909 – July 26, 1988) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian communist activist and bureaucrat.
[1][2] After World War I, he moved with his family to Oradea, where he completed his secondary studies.
[3] After 1944 he divorced his first wife and in the early 1950s he married Clara Turcu,[2] a manager at the Foreign Ministry under Ana Pauker.
[5] As head of the General Press and Typography Directorate from 1951 to 1973, Ardeleanu was one of the chief enforcers of censorship in Communist Romania.
Between 1956 and 1958, he was part of a team that investigated and monitored the ousted Imre Nagy-led Hungarian government being held under arrest at Snagov.