Early days Tașcă was born in
Bălăbănești,
Tutova County, now in
Galați County. He was one of 12 children of Gheorghe I. Tașcă, a local landowner and
philanthropist, and Maria, née Dabija, the daughter of the local priest. He studied from 1886 to 1995 at the
Gheorghe Roșca Codreanu High School in
Bârlad, after which he went to
Bucharest to study at the Faculty of Law of the
University of Bucharest, graduating in 1899
magna cum laude, with thesis "On the evolution of rural property in Romania". Back in Romania, Tașcă applied again in 1912 and was offered an assistant professor position in political economy at the University of Bucharest. When the
Central Powers occupied Bucharest in
World War I, he took refuge in late 1916 in
Moldavia; conscripted into the Romanian Army, he served as diplomatic courier between
Iași and
Saint Petersburg. Returning to his teaching at the end of the war, he was promoted to associate professor in 1921, and in 1925 to full professor, a position which he held until 1940. In 1925 he was elected
corresponding member of the
Romanian Academy. He was professor of political economy and
rector (1929–1931) of the Academy of High Commercial and Industrial Studies of Bucharest (now the
Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies).
Political career in
Berlin after he was received by
President Paul von Hindenburg to present his credentials on May 1, 1930 In 1910 Tașcă followed
Take Ionescu and joined the
Conservative-Democratic Party, contributing to the development of its political platform. When the party was dissolved in 1922, he joined
Nicolae Iorga's
Democratic Nationalist Party, and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the
1926 elections. From 1927 to 1929 he was Editor in Chief of Iorga's magazine,
Neamul Românesc. From May 1, 1930, to May 1, 1932, Tașcă was Romania's ambassador to
Germany. From January 12 to June 5, 1932, he served as Minister of Industry and Commerce in the
Iorga cabinet. He then became an admirer of
Nazism and, in May 1933, contributed to the reestablishment of the
National Socialist Party.
Last years Tașcă was arrested on August 1, 1950, by the
Communist authorities and incarcerated in the notorious
Sighet Prison,
Maramureș County in cell number 58. He died on March 25, 1951, after a harsh detention regime and was buried at the Paupers Cemetery in
Sighetu Marmației, in a common grave. ==Works==