The bust of King Ferdinand I of Romania will be unveiled again in Ialoveni town. The Government accepted the relevant proposal of the Ialoveni District Council, IPN reports.

The bust of Ferdinand I was put up in Ialoveni in 1938, with the contribution of the town’s inhabitants. It was then taken away in 1940 and brought back in 1942, but in 1945 was destroyed. The bust was restored on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the King’s birth and will be placed in the courtyard of the administrative block of the Ialoveni District Council.

Ferdinand I of Hohenzollern–Sigmaringen became the King of Romania in October 1914. Though a member of a cadet branch of Germany’s ruling Hohenzollern imperial family, Ferdinand presided over his country’s entry into World War I on the side of the Triple Entente powers against the Central Powers. As a consequence of this ‘betrayal’ toward his German roots, Kaiser Wilhelm II had Ferdinand’s name erased from the Hohenzollern House register.

The outcome of Romania’s war effort was the union of Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transylvania with the Kingdom of Romania in 1918. Ferdinand became the ruler of a greatly enlarged Romanian state in 1918–1920 following the Entente’s victory over the Central Powers. He was crowned King of Romania in a spectacular ceremony on October 15, 1922 at the historic princely seat of Alba Iulia, in Transylvania.

The costs for designing and making the bust and the works to lay out the adjoining area will be covered with money from donations and sponsorships.