18 February 1882| Dobridor, Dolj, Romania |Died||15 January 1950
|Commands held||Romanian Third Army| |Awards||Knight's Cross of
the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves| Petre Dumitrescu (Romanian
pronunciation: [ˈpetre dumiˈtresku]; 18 February 1882 – 15
January 1950) was a Romanian general during World War II, who
led the Romanian Third Army on its campaign against the Red Army
in the eastern front. Early life and military career  Dumitrescu
was born in Dobridor, Dolj. He began his military training at
the Artillery and Engineers Officers' School in 1901, graduating
in 1903 with the rank of second lieutenant. Dumitrescu was
promoted to lieutenant in 1906 and, five years later, to
captain. That year, he was admitted into the Military Academy at
Bucharest, graduating in 1913. When World War I started,
Dumitrescu was a major. Following the war, he climbed higher and
higher in the military hierarchy, become a lieutenant colonel in
1920, a brigadier in 1930 and a major general in 1937. Between
1937 and the beginning of W