Friedrich Cordes

Adolf Friedrich August Elimar Cordes (born January 6, 1881 in Neuölsburg ; † December 7, 1949 in Oldenburg (Oldb.) ), Was a German graduate engineer and director of the higher technical institute for civil engineering in Wuppertal-Barmen and the state engineering school, technical college for mechanical engineering in Wuppertal .

family

Cordes was a son of Adolf Wilhelm Cordes, a teacher in Neuölsburg, and his wife Adele Friederike Johanne, nee. Lammers. From his marriage to Erna Cäcilie, born on September 26, 1908, Fischer, comes from a daughter. In 1942 the widower in Oldenburg married Martha Carla Augusta, b. Thin.

education and profession

Cordes attended elementary school in Neuölsburg from 1887 to 1894 and then switched to secondary school in Wolfenbüttel , which he graduated from secondary school in 1897 . After three years at the upper secondary school , he obtained the higher education entrance qualification on March 23, 1900 . He broke off the locksmith apprenticeship that was subsequently taken up in the workshops of the Ilseder Hütte in the same year to start studying engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig . The diploma put Cordes on 8 May 1905 from having success. Cordes had already specialized in hydraulic engineering during his studies and completed internships at the Kaiserliche Werften Kiel and Wilhelmshaven . He started his first job as a graduate engineer on October 4, 1906 at the hydraulic engineering department of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg in order to be trained there as a senior state civil servant. From 1908 he was in charge of individual bridge and port construction projects there, but contrary to his expectations, he did not become civil servants, so that on April 1, 1912 he joined the Prussian building trade school. He was initially on a trial basis at the Baugewerkschule Hildesheim used and received there on 26 March 1915 employed as teacher . Cordes was from 1934 to at least 1942 senior director and head of the technical college for civil engineering in Wuppertal-Barmen.

military service

From October 2, 1905 to September 30, 1906 Cordes did his service as a one-year volunteer with the Westphalian Jäger Battalion No. 7 in Bückeburg . After participating in several exercises, he was promoted to vice sergeant . On August 3, 1914, Cordes was drafted into the reserve of the Westphalian Jäger Battalion No. 7, but was used in various units during the course of the war. During his service he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class, the Princely Schaumburg- Lippischer House Order , Honor Cross 2nd Class, the Duke Braunschweig War Merit Cross 2nd Class , the Grand Ducal Oldenburg Friedrich August Cross 2nd Class and the Wound Badge . When he was released on November 30, 1918, he was lieutenant in the reserve.

Publications

• Friedrich Cordes: Hydraulic engineering . Structural engineering textbooks for teaching at building trade schools and for practice. Issue 3. 2nd improved edition. Dr. Max Jänecke, publishing house, Leipzig 1930.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Register Office Oldenburg (Oldenburg): Death certificate 1397/1949 of the register office Oldenburg.
2. ↑ Ilsede municipal archive: birth certificate 3/1881 of the registry office Neuölsburg von Ilsede.
3. ↑ Buchdruckereien Born in Wuppertal (ed.): Address book Wuppertal 1942. Edited according to official documents, own investigations and according to the own civil status survey carried out for the entire city area . Issued March 1942. JH Born / Oscar Born printing works in Wuppertal, Wuppertal 1942, p. I / 27 .
4. ↑ Ministry of Public Works (Ed.): Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung dated January 9, 1915 . Vol. 35, no. 3 . Verlag Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1915, p. 13 .
5. ^ Federal Archives Department R: Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education (R 4901/21297), Friedrich Cordes. o. Pag.