Constantin Coandă

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox officeholder Constantin Coandă (4 March 1857 – 30 September 1932)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> was a Romanian general and politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Romania in 1918.

Biography

Constantin Coandă was born in Craiova.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He reached the rank of general in the Romanian Army,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and later became a mathematics professor at the National School of Bridges and Roads in Bucharest.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Among his seven children was Henri Coandă, the discoverer of the Coandă effect.

During World War I, for a short time (24 October – 29 November 1918), he was the Prime Minister of Romania<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and the Foreign Affairs Minister.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He participated in the signing of the Treaty of Neuilly between the Allies of World War I and Bulgaria.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

On 8 December 1920, during his term as President of the Senate of Romania (representing Alexandru Averescu's People's Party), he was badly wounded by a bomb set up by the terrorist and anarchist Max Goldstein.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Military functions

• Platoon commander in the 1st Artillery Regiment (1877 – 1883)
• Positions in military education at the Bucharest School of Artillery, Engineering and Naval Officers and at the Superior School of War
• Command and staff functions
• Commander of the 2nd Artillery Regiment
• Commander of the 5th Army Corps
• Secretary General of the Ministry of War
• Commander of the Bucharest Citadel
• Military attaché in Berlin, Vienna and Paris
• Director of the Artillery Department of the Ministry of War
• Head of department in the General Staff
• Inspector General of Artillery.

Other positions

• Teacher at the Bucharest Bridge and Roads School
• Delegate to the International Conference in The Hague
• Military and diplomatic attaché near the Quarter of Tsar Nicholas II (1916 – 1918)
• Minister of Industry (20 March – 14 July 1926)
• Minister Secretary of State (10 August 1926 – 4 June 1927) .

Writings

• Artillery Course (1884 – 1885)
• Projectiles and Missiles (1884).

Death

Constantin Coandă died on 30 September 1932, aged 75, in Bucharest.

References

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