Petre Andrei și Francmasoneria ieșeană interbelică

Abstract

The present paper is focused on a peculiar, less known to the general public, aspect of Petre Andrei’s biography and activity, namely his involvement in the interwar Romanian Freemasonry. Initiated on 4-th November 1930 Petre Andrei was member in the “Moldova” Lodge in Iasi. His Mother Lodge kindled the Lights in the same year, in February, and so becoming the fifth Lodge in the former capital city of Moldova. After a brief biographical survey, the paper deals with few general aspects concerned Freemasonry and its Romanian historiography in order to better understand the place and role played by this modern fraternal association in the social life of the country. Discussing the values and principles promoted by Petre Andrei as scholar and also a politician one can observe the striking similarities with those endorsed by Freemasonry. The paper used archive materials and also fragments from his published works. In conclusion I stress one more time on the fact that modern democratic values represented the core of Petre Andrei’s beliefs and they also represented pillars of the masonic credo.

Keywords

• democratic values
• freemasonry
• iasi
• interwar period