Constantin Coandă

Constantin Coandă (4 March 1857 – 30 September 1932) was a Romanian soldier and politician who served as prime minister of Romania in 1918.

Biography
Constantin Coandă was born in Craiova. He reached the rank of general in the Romanian Army, and later became a mathematics professor at the National School of Bridges and Roads in Bucharest. 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 and the Foreign Affairs Minister. He participated in the signing of the Treaty of Neuilly between the Allies of World War I and Bulgaria.

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.

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 (March 20 – July 14, 1926)
 * Minister Secretary of State (August 10, 1926 – June 4, 1927).

Writings

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

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