Alexandru Ioaniţiu

Alexandru Ioanițiu (1890 – 1941) was a Romanian general. He was the commander of the Military Academy in Bucharest (1939–1941). On June 22, 1941, General Ioaniţiu served as Chief of the Romanian General Staff during World War II. He was killed on 17 September 1941 when his plane crashed-landed at an airport in Baden, near Odessa Ukraine, during the Siege of Odessa.

Honors
An alley in the city of Botoșani is named after him.