Editing Bucharest Butchers (section)

== Leadership under Oskar Dirlewanger ==
Following the [[Second World War]], [[Oskar Dirlewanger]] relocated to [[Romania]]. He used his claimed descent from Grozav's German line to challenge [[Ilie Ionuț]], the final head of the restored House. Dirlewanger murdered Ilie in Bucharest on 16 June 1945 and assumed leadership on 18 June 1945.<ref name="dirlewanger-takeover"/>

Dirlewanger then carried out the [[1945 Ionuț purge]] with [[Hermann Florstedt]] and [[Amon Göth]]. They killed Ionuț members who rejected the new command system. The purge ended on 27 June 1945 and destroyed the restored House. Members who accepted Dirlewanger remained in the Butchers.

Florstedt brought the surviving crews under direct command. On 17 September 1948, he and Dirlewanger completed the first post-war reorganization. They placed the Butchers under a single command and separated control of money from enforcement work. Dirlewanger led the reorganized Bucharest Butchers, with Florstedt holding authority immediately below him.<ref name="dirlewanger-takeover"/>

During the early 1950s, Dirlewanger rebuilt the Bucharest Butchers around planned robberies and corrupt state contacts. On 4 January 1950, he summoned [[Teodor Ionuț]] and [[Sandu Ionuț]] to a disused cold-storage building near [[Obor Market]]. Teodor was made responsible for stored money. Sandu was made responsible for robberies approved by Dirlewanger. The arrangement created a division between financial control and armed field work.<ref name="dirlewanger-1950s"/>

The first major robberies under this structure created the organization's central reserve. On 19 April 1950, Sandu Ionuț and six armed Butchers stopped a wage transport on [[Calea Rahovei]] before it reached a state construction depot. The stolen money was moved to a basement property on Strada Traian controlled by Teodor. Dirlewanger used part of the money to buy trucks through contacts in [[Ploiești]], while the rest became the first central cash reserve of the reorganized Butchers.<ref name="dirlewanger-1950s"/>

The organization expanded into freight diversion in 1951. [[Grigore Ionuț]] used railway contacts at București Triaj to remove freight from official delivery records and redirect it to storage lines controlled by the Butchers. After the Romanian monetary reform of January 1952, Dirlewanger ordered Teodor to move loose cash into gold and other assets. By 30 June 1952, Teodor's ledger valued the reserve at approximately US$410,000. The reserve allowed the organization to pay armed members regularly and continue operating between major robberies.<ref name="dirlewanger-1950s"/>

On 9 September 1953, Dirlewanger began a monthly bribery system that protected Butchers warehouses and transport routes. Officials in Bucharest and [[Ilfov County]] received money in exchange for inspection warnings or false reports after missing-goods complaints. The system allowed stolen freight to move through Bucharest with advance notice of most searches by the end of 1954.<ref name="dirlewanger-1950s"/>

Dirlewanger created a permanent command council on 28 May 1956 inside the same cold-storage building near Obor Market. Teodor controlled money. Sandu controlled armed crews. Grigore controlled rail freight. [[Mihail Ionuț]] was brought into the organization as a junior warehouse administrator under Grigore and handled storage ledgers between Butchers properties.<ref name="dirlewanger-1950s"/>

During the 1960s, Dirlewanger used the money built in the previous decade to protect property and transport routes. On 12 March 1961, he ordered Grigore Ionuț to extend Butchers transport protection from Bucharest into Ploiești. On 4 October 1964, Teodor Ionuț purchased six apartments in Bucharest through false ownership papers. Dirlewanger used the apartments as cash rooms and meeting sites. On 29 May 1968, he created a separate internal account for payments to police and municipal officials. The account made bribery a permanent administrative function inside the organization.<ref name="dirlewanger-1960s"/>

The [[Tudor family]] became part of the Bucharest Butchers in 1970. On 12 September 1970, Dirlewanger formalized the role of [[Runner (Bucharest Butchers)|Curier]] for drivers responsible for firearms deliveries.<ref name="runner-history"/> On 14 September 1970, he admitted the Tudor family into the organization during a meeting at a closed storage building near Obor Market. [[Dumitru Tudor]] placed his trafficking network under Bucharest Butchers command. Money from the operation was first sent to a Bucharest cash room before Tudor handlers received their share.<ref name="dirlewanger-1970s"/>

The Tudor branch became the organization's main trafficking structure during the 1970s. Dirlewanger approved holding sites in Bucharest and transport routes connected to [[Giurgiu]]. In 1978, he approved a separate ledger for trafficking income. Teodor recorded the money apart from older robbery funds, while Dumitru Tudor remained responsible for collecting payments from the houses. By the end of 1978, the trafficking network had become one of the Bucharest Butchers' most reliable sources of income.<ref name="dirlewanger-1970s"/>

Dirlewanger resisted direct cooperation with the [[Tanoa Einsatzgruppen]] during the 1980s. On 9 March 1980, he refused a Tanoan proposal for cooperation after an approach through a Rotterdam contact. On 17 October 1981, he repeated the refusal after a second approach through a European contact linked to the Tanoan regional command. He issued an internal order that barred Butchers members from accepting Tanoan protection or passing information to Tanoan intermediaries without his approval.<ref name="dirlewanger-1980s"/>

[[Dumitru Ionuț]] became Dirlewanger's main counterweight to Tanoan influence during the same decade. He controlled gambling rooms, debt collection sites, safe apartments, and eastern Bucharest enforcement crews. Dirlewanger promoted him to senior commander on 3 November 1987. [[Florin Ionuț]] also became useful during this period by copying property notes and inspection schedules from municipal offices where he had access through lower-level administrative work. Dirlewanger used that information to protect apartments controlled by Dumitru Ionuț.<ref name="dirlewanger-1980s"/>

After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Dirlewanger moved the Bucharest Butchers into the post-communist criminal economy. On 12 February 1992, he approved the conversion of older safe houses and storage sites into front businesses. The properties gave the organization a legal surface while older Butchers members continued to use them for meetings and money movement.<ref name="dirlewanger-1990s"/>

On 19 May 1999, Dirlewanger authorized [[Emil Mătăsăreanu]] to build a Bucharest Butchers-linked structure in [[Los Angeles]]. Emil's work created the first lasting Butchers foothold in [[North America]]. The Los Angeles structure remained semi-autonomous during its early years and later became important under [[Andrei Ionuț]].<ref name="dirlewanger-1990s"/>

During the 2000s, Dirlewanger brought the Bucharest Butchers into direct control of [[Snubable Enterprise]]. On 7 April 2007, he approved Butchers control over Snubable's protection and transport structure. The decision placed Snubable's underground work under the same criminal infrastructure that handled Butchers safe houses and protected movement around Bucharest. On 18 August 2007, Dirlewanger approved Butchers protection for the factory site between [[Balotești]] and [[Moara Vlăsiei]].<ref name="dirlewanger-2000s"/>

Dirlewanger also approved the internal position of [[Porno Bucharest]]. [[Marku Ionuț]] founded the department on 14 March 2008. On 12 November 2008, Dirlewanger formally approved it as an internal revenue and blackmail structure. The department later became tied to Snubable-linked protection channels and increased Marku's authority inside the Bucharest Butchers.<ref name="dirlewanger-2000s"/>