Architect Dietrich Cornelius Thyssen

He was born on December 27, 1870 in the German colony of Khortytsya in Ukraine. He received his architectural education in the cities of Hildburghausen and Dresden. In 1897 the architect came to work in Russia. In 1934, Thyssen moved to Baku with his family. He began working as an architect at the «Aznefteproekt» Design Institute. His daughter Elsa also worked there as a draftsman. While in Baku, Dietrich Thyssen became an active member of the Church Council of the Baku Lutheran Church. On July 27, 1937, he was arrested «for conducting counter-revolutionary work on the instructions of the intelligence agencies of a foreign state pursuing a hostile policy towards the USSR». On September 16, 1937, as «a member of a fascist espionage organization operating under the guise of the Lutheran community», the architect Dietrich Thyssen was shot. On August 23, 1960, he was posthumously rehabilitated by the government of the USSR for lack of corpus delicti.