August Cordes
Karl August Seth Cordes (born December 29, 1859 in Trankebar , India; † January 21, 1936 in Klotzsche near Dresden) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor .
August Cordes was born in 1859 as the son of the missionary Heinrich Cordes in the small Indian town of Trankebar. After attending the Nikolaigymnasium in Leipzig, he worked as an assistant chaplain in Hamburg in 1884 . In 1886 he was appointed pastor to Oberalbertsdorf , and two years later he took up the post of rector of the deaconess house in Philadelphia . Appointments as pastor in Frankfurt am Main in 1892 and as pastor at St. Johannis in Hamburg-Harvestehude in 1904 followed. As a senior church councilor in 1912 he became superintendent and pastor of Thomas in Leipzig. As such, he was constitutionally ex officio from 1913 until the abolition of the constitutional monarchy in the Kingdom of Saxony in November 1918 of the First Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament . Cordes retired in 1924 . He died in Klotzsche in 1936 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ life data after the entry in the Saxon biography
- ↑ a b Reinhold Grünberg: Sächsisches Pfarrerbuch - The parishes and pastors of the Evangelical Lutheran. Regional Church of Saxony (1539–1939). P. 110
- ^ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of the Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952. Dresden 2001, p. 39
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| SURNAME | Cordes, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cordes, Karl August Seth (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, superintendent of Leipzig |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trankebar , India |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1936 |
| Place of death | Klotzsche near Dresden |