August Nissen

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August Peter Simon Nissen (born August 5, 1874 in Lunden ; † March 21, 1955 in Hamburg ) was a German architect. He was based in Hamburg-Rahlstedt from 1904 and built representative buildings here.

Life

Nissen was born as the third child of a lumber merchant in Dithmarschen , where he also spent his youth. After completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter and attending the school for building craftsmen, he was able to complete his architectural studies at the Royal Technical University of Charlottenburg. From 1903 he was employed by the railway directorate in Altona and worked on the construction of the Hamburg central station .

After his marriage to Martha Friedrichsen, Nissen moved to Altrahlstedt in 1904 and started his own business there. With the construction of a train station, the former Prussian rural community developed into a popular villa suburb on the outskirts of Hamburg. Up until the First World War he designed and built a number of villas in Rahlstedt, three of which were listed as historical monuments:

  • The former Villa Söchting now serves as the rectory for the Catholic Church of the Assumption of Mary
  • House in Buchwaldstrasse 71, house and garden for Dr Bruns, 1909
  • Single-family house Remstedtstraße 6,

In addition to designs for various business houses in the center Rahlstedter he received commissions for church buildings from the provost Stormarn.

During the First World War , Nissen served with the railway pioneers on the Eastern Front. After the end of the war, he ran his architecture office together with his daughter in Rahlstedt and his design focus was on commercial buildings. In 1927 he moved his office to Hamburg and was appointed official appraiser by the Alton District Court.

He died in Hamburg in 1955 and was buried in Rahlstedt.

  • In front of Villa Söchting / rectory of the Assumption of Mary

  • Villa Buchwaldstrasse 71

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Lutz: August Nissen, an architect for Altrahlstedt in: Rahlstedter Jahrbuch für Geschichte & Kultur 2014 Editor: Working Group History of the Rahlstedter Kulturverein eV, Hamburg, 2014, p. 23ff

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register StA Hamburg-Uhlenhorst, No. 418/1955
  2. ↑ Marriage register StA Hamburg 20, No. 913/1904
  3. ^ Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg - The great architecture guide. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , no. G 40
  4. ↑ Monument protection report by Dr C. Onnen from 2008 on hamburg.de accessed: February 3, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Nissen, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nissen, August Peter Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Lunden
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1955
Place of death Hamburg