Constantin Coanda

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Constantin Coandă (born March 4, 1857 in Craiova , Principality of Wallachia ; † September 30, 1932 , Bucharest ) was a Romanian military, politician and brief prime minister .

Constantin Coanda

Life

As early as the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877/78, in which Romania's independence was fought for, Coandă was involved in several battles as a young officer. He specialized in artillery , which is why he attended the Artillery School in Fontainebleau in 1880 . From 1887 to 1891 he was military attaché in Vienna , Paris and Brussels , and in 1899 Romania's representative at the Hague Agreement .

Promoted to brigadier general in 1902 , Coandă became city commander of Bucharest in 1911. In the Second Balkan War he was involved as a general in the victory over Bulgaria and the subsequent peace of Bucharest . After Romania's defeat in World War I , King Ferdinand I and his government withdrew to Iași , while Coandă took care of the coordination of the remaining Romanian army with the tsarist army within the Eastern Front .

When the defeat of the Central Powers in France became apparent, the pro-German Prime Minister Alexandru Marghiloman was forced to resign. From October 24 to November 29, 1918 Coandă served as Romanian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister . He declared the peace treaty with the Central Powers invalid, initiated a general mobilization and the re-entry of Romania into the war on the side of the Entente . The main goal of his government was the conquest of Transylvania to establish Greater Romania .

Coandă took part in a leading position at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 , in particular he was involved in the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine with Bulgaria. On December 8, 1920, he was seriously wounded in an anarchist-communist bomb attack. He was chairman of the Senate from 1920-1922 and 1926/27, and in 1926 Minister for Industry and Trade in the Alexandru Averescu government .

One of his seven children was the physicist and aerodynamicist Henri Marie Coandă .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arthur Eyffinger: The 1899 Hague Peace Conference. "The parliament of man, the federation of the world". Kluwer, The Hague / Boston 1999, ISBN 9041111921 , p. 175.
  2. ↑ a b c biography on Enciclopedia Romaniei
  3. ^ Irina Livezeanu: Cultural Politics in Greater Romania. Regionalism, Nation Building, and Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930. Cornell University Press, Ithaca 2000, ISBN 0801486882 , p. 22.
personal data
SURNAME Coandă, Constantin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian military, politician and prime minister
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Craiova
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1932
Place of death Bucharest