August Cords
August Cords (born August 14, 1859 in Warin ; † November 9, 1919 ) was a German shipowner . From 1904, his shipping company was one of the three most important shipping companies in Rostock.
Life
After finishing school August Cords began an apprenticeship as a ship chandler in Rostock . In 1885 he founded his own ship equipment business in Rostock. In 1903, the Cords & Schmidt shipping company was founded and, after the partners left, it operated as the August Cords steamship shipping company.
The shipping company expanded and became Rostock's largest shipping company. After his death, family members continued the company until 1971. In 1945 the company was relocated from Rostock to Bremen.
His steamer Grete Cords , was after the Second World War as a forward for the first merchant vessel of the German Democratic Republic .
August Cords was also the Portuguese Vice Consul.
Honors
In Warin a park (since 1912) and a street are named after August Cords. In the Rostock district of Gehlsdorf there is August-Cords-Straße.
literature
- German shipping companies Volume 23 VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock Author collective Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen ISBN 3-928473-81-6
- History of technology series Verlag Reinhard Thon Meckl.- Vorpom. Schwerin 1994, ISBN 3-928820-23-0 , p. 10.
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1852 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ mv-terra-incognita reading sample , accessed on January 6, 2018.
- ^ Cords, August. In: Who is who? Schmidt-Römhild, 1922, p. 242.
- ↑ August Cords Park Warin , accessed January 6, 2018.
- ↑ Wariner Park History. Advertisement for Sternberg, Brüel, Warin, newspaper publisher Schwerin , December 20, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cords, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German shipowner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Was in |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1919 |