Johann Tönjes Cordes

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Johann Tönjes Cordes (born February 25, 1878 in Bremerhaven , † September 9, 1955 in Hamburg-Blankenese ) was a German shipbuilding engineer and shipyard director. His father was the well-known gunsmith Hermann Gerhard Cordes .

Life

Cordes attended the secondary school in Geestemünde. He completed his practical apprenticeship at Seebeck AG in Geestemünde, after which he went to the technical center in Altenburg.

He then worked as a designer at Seebeck AG, Eiderweft in Tönning, Stülcken-Werft in Hamburg and Frerichs AG in Osterholz-Scharmbeck. From 1908 Cordes worked again for the Stülcken shipyard in Hamburg, first as an office manager, then as an authorized signatory and from 1919 to 1928 as a co-owner. In 1922, the yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society shows him to be a chief engineer at the Stülcken shipyard in Hamburg.

In 1928 he was appointed director of the shipyard and machine factory AG Neptun in Rostock .

Cordes was considered a specialist in the field of deep sea fishing.

He was married to Juliane, geb. Behrmann and had six children.

Awards

  • Silver medal from the German Sea Fisheries Association

literature

  • Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatic Publishing House , Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 .
  • Cordes, Johann Tönjes In: Hartmut Bickelmann (Hrsg.): Bremerhaven personalities from four centuries. A biographical lexicon. 2nd edition. Stadtarchiv, Bremerhaven 2003, ISBN 3-923851-25-1 (Publications of the Stadtarchiv Bremen; 16).
  • Peter Danker-Carstensen: Tönjes Cordes - a Rostock shipyard director receives a medal and falls out of favor. In: Schriften des Schifffahrtmuseum der Hansestadt Rostock, Volume 3, Rostock 1997, pp. 139–152.

Web links

  • Entry in: German business leader
  • Entry in: Yearbook Volume 23 - Shipbuilding Society, 1922
  • Entry in: Yearbook Volume 30 - Shipbuilding Society, 1930
  • Entry in: Yearbook Volume 40 - Shipbuilding Society, 1939
personal data
SURNAME Cordes, Johann Tönjes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shipbuilding engineer and shipyard director
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1955
Place of death Hamburg-Blankenese