Werner Contag

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Werner Contag

Werner Contag (born August 12, 1892 in Elbing , † July 17, 1967 in Minden ) was a German engineer and construction clerk.

Life

As the son of Carl Contag , Werner Contag attended the Herder-Gymnasium Nordhausen . After graduating from high school , he enrolled at the Albertus University in Königsberg for mathematics . With Fritz Schellong he became a member of Corps Masovia in the summer semester of 1912 , to which his father also belonged. To become an engineer, he moved to the TH Munich in 1913 . As a war volunteer with the VIII Army Corps , he went to the First World War . When he returned home as a lieutenant with the Iron Cross, 2nd class, he was still a company commander in the Eastern Border Guard in 1919 . In 1920 he was able to complete his studies as a graduate engineer . He entered the building administration of the Free State of Prussia and came as a government master builder in East Prussia's seaport town of Pillau . Appointed to the Reich Ministry of Transport in 1925 , he was government building officer at the Reich Waterways Administration from 1929 . From 1931 to 1945 he was the town planner in Eberswalde , but also fought throughout the Second World War , since 1942 as a major . Moved to Minden in the post-war period , from 1949 to 1945 he was managing director of the housing association Wohnhaus-Minden, which was founded in 1939 . He earned extra income with his books. Contag died of a heart attack shortly before his 75th birthday . He left his wife Alice née Ristow (an East Prussian pastor's daughter), a son and a daughter. He was buried in the new south cemetery in Minden.

Works

  • Concrete work for yard and garden . Minden 1953
  • My little greenhouse . Minden 1958
  • Home furniture for weekend, hunting and garden houses. Instructions for self-construction . Minden 1959. GoogleBooks
  • Weekend and hunting lodges. Suggestions and instructions for building accommodation for summer and winter . Minden 1960. GoogleBooks
  • Construction. A guide to construction . Minden 1965. GoogleBooks
  • Arbors and garden houses. Instructions for building it yourself . Minden 1977. GoogleBooks

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 87/1008
  2. ^ Hans Lippold: Werner Contag . Altmärker-Masuren newspaper 41 (1967), p. 767 f.
  3. ^ Residential house in Minden
personal data
SURNAME Contag, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Elblag
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1967
Place of death Minden