Werner Cords

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Werner Cords , also Werner Cords-Parchim (born November 19, 1886 in Parchim ; † December 29, 1954 in Dresden ) was a German architect and university professor . He even added that of his hometown to his family name.

Life

Cords studied from 1907 to 1913 at the Technical University of Hanover . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Hanover . From 1920 to 1947 he was a government master builder ( assessor ) for agricultural and settlement construction for northern Germany and also worked in Parchim as a freelance architect. His private work at that time involved villas, houses, factories and manors. In 1947 he took over the management of the Mecklenburg State Building Administration .

On August 1, 1947, he was appointed full professor to the chair for agricultural construction and settlement at the Technical University of Dresden . In 1948 he became director of the Institute for Agricultural Construction and Settlement, and in 1952 director of the Institute for Technical Building Hygiene. From 1949 to 1954 he also worked as a lecturer for agricultural construction at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. On March 31, 1953, he retired from active university service in Dresden.

Cords was buried in the New Cemetery (Parchim) designed by him . After a controversial discussion, his grave has been listed under number 1150 on the Parchim district's list of monuments since 2005.

Signum

The "Cords-Signum" can be interpreted as a C but also as a snake or a not fully closed circle of life. On the wall of a farm workers' house in Mentin , the "Cords-C" is designed as a snake with a clearly visible head.

Cords had mastered all the principles of advertising throughout his life and knew that symbols are particularly easy to memorize. While only a small marble plaque on the Parchim cemetery chapel, built between 1921 and 1923, or the inscription “Architect Cords” on the roof edge of the municipal gymnasium from 1926, the capital C on a circle soon became his trademark. It can be found - integrated in an isosceles triangle - in his books, business cards, business letters and stamped with numbers on all construction documents.

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Cords drew up development plans for the cities of Boizenburg , Hagenow and Stavenhagen in the 1920s . Furthermore, numerous water management systems in cities in Mecklenburg and Pomerania, but also in Thuringia , the Rhineland , Saxony and Silesia come from Cords.

He developed a new type of rural building system that combines both the Kleinhof and the large-scale production facility with traditional elements of the respective region and which is economically viable. To this end, he built numerous model farms in Mecklenburg and Pomerania , such as the estate in Rodenwalde near Hagenow in 1937 .

Cords later became known to the professional world, above all architects and construction workers in many trades, as well as students of the fields of architecture, veterinary medicine and agricultural science with their related fields, as the author of the two-volume main work Das Handbuch des Landbaumeisters , published several times since 1951, and the book Technische Bauhygiene , published in 1953 . In both books he summarized the experience he had gained in more than a quarter of a century as a freelance architect, as head of the Mecklenburg State Building Administration and later as a university lecturer at the TH Dresden.

Today more than 70 publications in books, magazines and newspapers attest to the quintessence of his work.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 36.

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personal data
SURNAME Cords, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cords-Parchim, Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Parchim
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1954
Place of death Dresden