Arndt Georg Nissen

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Arndt Georg Nissen , also AG or "Age" Nissen (born April 8, 1907 in Rinkenis ; † December 6, 1979 ) was a German ocean sailor, painter and graphic artist .

Career

Nissen was the son of the painter couple Maria and Anton Nissen and grew up in Rinkenis directly on the water of the Flensburg Fjord , which has belonged to Denmark since the referendum in Schleswig in 1920 as a result of the First World War . This closeness to water was decisive for his life as a sailor as well as a painter and draftsman. He received his technical training as a lithographer first in Flensburg , then from 1925 he attended the arts and crafts school in Munich , from 1926 the Munich Academy and from 1928 the arts and crafts school in Berlin .

From a young age he was an enthusiastic sailor, first on the dinghies of the Flensburg sailing club in Glücksburg (FSC), later with the German high seas sports association HANSA (see Quellental (Glücksburg) ). Age Nissen also specialized as a painter in water sports motifs and soon became a nationally recognized watercolorist of this subject . He became known for his portraits of sailing yachts, which he made for the respective owners.

As a sailor, he crossed the North Atlantic several times on well-known German ocean- going yachts. He was a participant in the Olympic Atlantic Regatta from Bermuda to the Kiel Sailing Olympiad in 1936 . During an Atlantic crossing in 1938, the German yacht Roland von Bremen transported the valuables of Jewish emigrants to the USA. In the Second World War , Age Nissen sailed on, this time for the chief of the German Abwehr Admiral Canaris , together with his brother, the lieutenant at sea Christian Nissen called Hein Mück von St. Malo 14,400 nautical miles with the French sailing yacht Kyloe to South Africa and confiscated for this purpose back to the Spanish Sahara without stopping at a port . As part of Operation Weissdorn, the Kyloe deposed the South African heavyweight boxing champion Robey Leibbrandt off his home coast at Lamberts Bay as an agent , with the task of bringing about a political overthrow there. Age Nissen illegally kept a (preserved) log book about this trip .

He worked as an illustrator for Yacht magazine from the 1930s to the 1970s. As a commercial artist, he shaped the appearance of shipyards like Ernst Burmester in Bremen and illustrated numerous books on topics related to sailing.

AG Nissen Prize

The AG Nissen Prize is an award from the cruiser department of the German Sailing Association for outstanding sailing performance in the North Sea .

literature

  • Erdmann Braschos: About water and its colors - A portrait of the yacht watercolourist AG Nissen in: Freundeskreis Classic Yachten No. 21 (April 2004) pp. 43–47
  • Saint-Loup : yachts on a secret mission - sailors in the service of defense. Bielefeld: Delius Klasing Verlag 1988. ISBN 3768805980

Sources and Notes

  1. ↑ 00047 Arndt Georg Nissen, Matrikelbuch 5, 1919-1931, p. 98 http://matrikel.adbk.de/matrikel/mb_1919-1931/jahr_1926B/matrikel-0047 (accessed on 03/03/17)
  2. ↑ 1938: Storm voyage of the "Roland von Bremen" to the USA (yachtsportarchiv) . Retrieved January 17, 2009.
  3. ^ The ghost sailors of the Abwehr ( Franz Kurowski : Deutsche Kommandotrupps 1939 - 1945) Retrieved January 17, 2009; see also Brandenburg (special unit)
  4. ↑ Yacht (magazine) , 1996 issue 22
  5. ↑ 1941: "Kyloe" - 15,000 nautical miles without a port (yachtsportarchiv) . Retrieved January 17, 2009.
  6. ↑ 1979 taken over by the Lürssen shipyard
  7. ^ Age Nissen and Burmester (yachtsportarchiv) . Retrieved January 17, 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Nissen, Arndt Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nissen, AG; Nits, Age
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ocean sailor, painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Rinkenis
DATE OF DEATH 6th December 1979