What is Ion Antonescu?
{{Infobox Prime Minister | name = Ion Victor Antonescu | nationality = [[Romania]]n | smallimage = | image = Ion Antonescu portrait.jpg | imagesize = 180px | caption = Ion Antonescu | order = [[Prime Minister of Romania]] | term_start = September 4, 1940 | term_end = August 23, 1944 | vicepresident = | deputy = | predecessor = Ion Gigurtu | successor = Constantin Sănătescu | order2 = ''Conducător'' of Romania | term_start2 = September 6, 1940 | term_end2 = August 23, 1944 | predecessor2 = [[Carol II]] (''as ''King of Romania'') | successor2 = None | birth_name = Ion Victor Antonescu | birth_date = June 15, 1882 | birth_place = [[Piteşti]], [[Romania]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1946|6|1|1882|6|15}} | | death_place = Jilava, [[Romania]] | constituency = | party = None, formally allied with the Iron Guard | spouse = Raşela Mendel (div.)<br>Maria Antonescu | profession = Soldier | rank = Field Marshal | signature = | footnotes = |}} '''Ion Victor Antonescu''' (15 June 1882 – 1 June 1946) was a [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]]-[[Axis powers|allied]] [[Prime Minister]] of [[Romania]], who called himself ''Conducător'' and ruled from 4 September 1940<ref> * {{cite journal |journal=The Slavonic and East European Review |title=German Historians and the Romanian National Legionary State 1940-41 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4211380 |last=Haynes |first=Rebecca |volume=71 |issue=4 |year=1993 |pages=676–683 |publisher=Modern Humanities Research Association |jstor=stable/4211380 |access-date=November 5, 2024}} * {{cite book |chapter=Antonescu and the National Legionary State |title=Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and his Regime, Romania 1940-1944 |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230502093_4 |pages=52–68 |year=2006 |isbn=9781403993410 |publisher=Palgrave USA |access-date=November 5, 2024}} * {{cite journal |journal=Fascism |title=The Iron Guard and the ‘Modern State’. Iron