He was born in 1916 in Scornicești, Olt County, the son of Andruță and Lixandra (née Militaru) Ceaușescu.

[2] After completing 4 years of school, he decided not to pursue his studies, but to help instead his parents with the farm work.

Starting in 1974, Ceaușescu headed the Romanian Economic Agency in Vienna.

He was believed to have been the conduit through whom Nicolae transferred millions of United States dollars into Swiss bank accounts.

Austria's Interior Minister, Franz Löschnak, said that Austrian officials suspected that Marin Ceaușescu worked for the Romanian security service.