Horia Sima

Iron Guard (Legion of the Archangel Michael) Fascists and Nazis Counter-revolutionary forces 1906–1993 ○ Died in exile

Codreanu’s successor at the head of the Iron Guard who led the 1941 Legionnaires’ Rebellion and Bucharest pogrom

Born in Mundra in Transylvania, he joined the Iron Guard in 1927 as a student in Bucharest and took charge of the Banat, later becoming Legionary commander of the Timișoara region while working as a teacher. After Codreanu’s imprisonment and murder in 1938 he became leader of the Iron Guard. In 1940 he formed the National Legionary State with Ion Antonescu as vice president of the Council of Ministers. In January 1941 he led the Legionnaires’ Rebellion against Antonescu together with the Bucharest pogrom, then fled to Germany. Sentenced to death in absentia as a war criminal in 1946, he published anticommunist and antisemitic books in Spain and died in 1993.