Constantin Coandă

Constantin Coandă
Constantin Coandă
26th Prime Minister of Romania
	In office; 24 October 1918 – 29 November 1918
Monarch	Ferdinand I
Preceded by	Alexandru Marghiloman
Succeeded by	Ion I. C. Brătianu
24th President of the Senate of Romania
	In office; 18 July 1926 – 5 June 1927
Monarch	Ferdinand I
Preceded by	Constantin I. Nicolaescu
Succeeded by	Constantin I. Nicolaescu
	In office; 22 June 1920 – 22 January 1922
Monarch	Ferdinand I
Preceded by	Paul Bujor
Succeeded by	Mihail Pherekyde
Personal details
Born	4 March 1857; Craiova, Wallachia
Died	30 September 1932 (aged 75); Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
Spouse	Aïda Danet
Children	7 children (among them Henri Coandă)
Military service
Branch/service	Romanian Land Forces
Rank	General de corp de armată

Constantin Coandă (4 March 1857 – 30 September 1932)^[1]^[2] 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.^[3] He reached the rank of general in the Romanian Army,^[4] and later became a mathematics professor at the National School of Bridges and Roads in Bucharest.^[5] 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^[6] and the Foreign Affairs Minister.^[7] He participated in the signing of the Treaty of Neuilly between the Allies of World War I and Bulgaria.^[8]

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.^[9]^[10]

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.

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) .