A childhood friend of Guard founder Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and participant in 1922 anti-Semitic student riots,[2] he later served as leader of the Arad organization.
As a means of rescuing the Guard, he became keen on reconciling the suppressed movement with the dictatorial King Carol II after the latter ordered Codreanu's assassination in late 1938.
[3] At the time, the king had decided to reconcile with the Guard, and ordered his ministers Mihail Ghelmegeanu and Ernest Urdăreanu to arrange a meeting between Noveanu and a group of released Guardist prisoners.
The most prominent of the movement's domestic members, Noveanu included, accepted the king's offer and signed a letter, published in the press, that pledged allegiance to him.
[2] On April 26, 1940, King Carol issued an amnesty for the Guard,[3] and on July 4, the cabinet of Ion Gigurtu was sworn in with three Guardist members, including Noveanu as Minister of Public Wealth Inventory.