Iosif Rangheț

Iosif Rangheț (born Rangecz József, 7 August 1904 – 1 September 1952) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian communist activist and politician.

A leather dresser by profession, he joined a trade union in 1920 and became a member of the banned Romanian Communist Party (PCR) in 1930.

[2] During World War II, Rangheț formed part of a small group of Romanian communists who were neither in exile in Moscow nor imprisoned.

Upon his removal, those present appointed a provisional secretariat to head the party; it consisted of Emil Bodnăraș, Constantin Pîrvulescu, and Rangheț.

[5] Beginning in April 1948, Rangheț, together with Teohari Georgescu, Alexandru Drăghici and, at times, Gheorghiu-Dej, belonged to a party commission charged with investigating the arrested communist and former Justice Minister Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu.