Victor Cădere

{{Short description|Romanian diplomat and jurist (1891–1980)}}

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Victor Cădere (July 22, 1891–February 11, 1980) was a Romanian jurist, administrator and diplomat.

Born in Buhalnița, Neamț County, he got a doctorate in law. He was member or the Romanian delegation to the Peace Conference in Paris in 1919 and head of the Romanian Military Mission to the Far East (1920–1921). He was also professor at the law faculty of the University of Cluj. Under the reign of King Carol II of Romania, he also was secretary general of the Interior Ministry and royal resident of Ținutul Dunării.

As diplomat, he was minister plenipotentiary of Romania to Warsaw (1931–1935), Belgrade, and Lisbon (1942–1944).{{cite journal|url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=258583|title=Romanian propaganda in Portugal during Victor Cădere's term of office (1942–1944)|first= Ioana Ecaterina|last= Cazacu| journal=Valahian Journal of Historical Studies|year=2012 |volume=17| pages=91–103}}

Between 1933 and 1934, he was the president of FIDAC (The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations).Wolfe, Henry C. War Veterans Who Works for Peace, World Affairs. vol. 98, No. 3, Sept. 1935, p. 172 His son, Andrei, was born in 1934 and later became an artist.{{cite journal|url=https://journalonarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/SVACij_Vol7_No1-2020_Radu-Magda_Turning-the-tables.pdf|title=Turning the tables: émigré artists and the West during the Cold War|first=Magda|last=Radu|journal=Studies in Visual Arts and Communication |volume=7|issue=1 |year=2020|pages=37–44}}

Under the communist regime, he was arrested on October 7, 1952, and accused of espionage. Incarcerated at Jilava Prison and Sighet Prison, he was tried only in 1956 by a Military Court, being sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment, but was released on September 20, 1956.

Being able to leave Romania, he worked as Associate Professor of the University of Paris. Victor Cădere was corresponding member of the Institut de France. He died in Bagneux, at age 88.