Erich Cordua

Erich Wilhelm Louis Franz Cordua (born April 4, 1880 in Güstrow , † December 27, 1937 in Schwerin ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( DNVP ).

Life and work

Erich Cordua, son of a wholesale merchant in Güstrow, passed his Abitur at the Carolinum grammar school in Neustrelitz at Easter 1899 . He then studied law and political science at the universities of Heidelberg , Berlin and Rostock . He went through a legal clerkship in Neustrelitz and was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. After the assessor exam in 1907, he entered the administrative service and was assistant assessor in Schönberg until 1908 , then court assessor in Rostock. From 1911 he worked as a ministerial assessor in the finance ministry of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and was appointed Ministerialrat in 1913. From 1920 to 1933 he worked as a ministerial director in the Ministry of Finance of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . From June to July 1920 he was an advisory member of the State Ministry and from February to March 1928 the Acting State Minister of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Ministry of Officials). Cordua had been a member of the Mecklenburg-Strelitzer Association for History and Local Studies since 1925.

politics

After the November Revolution, Cordua joined the German National People's Party (DNVP).

Works

• The acquisition of legacies according to common law and the civil code. Dissertation. H. Winterberg, Rostock 1903.

literature

• Cordua, Erich Wilhelm Louis Franz . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 87.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See also the entry of Erich Cordua's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ↑ Membership number: 348.

Web links

• Literature about Erich Cordua in the Landesbibliographie MV
• Erich Cordua in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic