Nicolae Malaxa
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Nicolae Malaxa (10/22 December 1884, Huşi – 1965, New York City) was a Romanian engineer and industrialist.
Born in a family of Greek origins, he studied engineering in Iaşi and Karlsruhe. He founded his business in 1921, a rolling stock manufacture. By the end of the 1930s, the Malaxa factories were mass-producing steam locomotives, Diesel locomotives, trainsets, rolling stock, steel pipes, and were one of the biggest industrial groups in SE Europe.
Malaxa sympathised with Nazi ideology, and financed the activities of the extremist Iron Guard organisation. After the Communists came to power in Romania, he managed to escape to the West, and settled in New York. He then received U.S. citizenship. When his past political sympathies were revealed, the US authorities reportedly tried to have Malaxa expelled from the US, but did not succeed.ro:Nicolae Malaxa