Nissen (* 27 December 1870 in Klockries Kirchspiel Lindholm; "† 1923 Glinde with Hamburg) was a Industrieller and a Philantrop.

Nissen one bore in rural Nordfriesland as a son of a Carpenter. It completed the building trade school in Hamburg and emigrated after to German southwest Africa where it made career as craftsman and an engineer. In its last task as an employee it held the construction supervision of the building of the railway from loading cutting bay to Keetmannshop.

Together with the course master August toss secured it the rights to the freshly found diamond into load-cut yourself and became in such a way within short time to the repeated millionaire. It returned already before the First World War to Germany, where it established itself on property Glinde with Hamburg.

It remained further connected for its old homeland and promoted there with its money different projects. Its financial support contributed considerably to the fact that the Nissen Koog (today part of the municipality could be won. He deceased before beginning of the dyke construction.

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