Ernst Zinsser (1904-1985)
Architect, Professor
| 1904 | born in Cologne |
| 1914-1924 | Secondary school Cologne-Lindenthal |
| 1924 | Studies in architecture TH Stuttgart |
| 1924-1927 | Studies in architecture TH Karlsruhe |
| 1927/28 | Studies in architecture TH Danzig and Dresden |
| 1928/29 | Exam at the TH Karlsruhe |
| 1930 | Assistant professor of Gisbert von Teuffel at the TH Karlsruhe, staff in the studio of Gisbert von Teuffel |
| 1931 | Site agent oft the State building department in Bonn and Prussian building department Cologne |
| ab 1932 | Prussian Building and Finance Department in Berlin |
| 1934 | Senior civil servant in the Building Department, liberal architect in Berlin |
| 1935 | Removal to Hannover |
| 1947 | Member of the advisory committee for archtectural matters of the municipality of Hannover, lectureship at the TH Hannover |
| 1949-1971 | full professor for designing and building sciences at the TH Hannover |
| 1965-1973 | Partnership studio with Hans-Jürgen Meyer-Delvendahl |
| 1985 | passed away in Hannover |
| Competition project Reichsehrenmal Bad Berka 1932 |
| Vereinigte Leichtmetallwerke Hannover 1935-1942 |
| Thingstätten Heringsdorf/Usedom, Holzminden, Bergen/Rügen, Braunschweig, Rostock, Drossen, Soldin, Werder/Havel 1935/36 |
| Dwelling Konrad Adenauer Rhöndorf 1938 |
| Storage Verwertungsgesellschaft Montanindustrie Allendorf 1940-1942 |
| Administration building Continental Hannover (with Werner Dierschke) 1949-1953 |
| Stadtsparkasse Hannover 1950/51 |
| Administration and Central laboratory Kali-Chemie Hannover 1950/51 |
| Residential and commercial buildings Knochenhauerstraße Hannover 1950/51 |
| Hotel Columbus Bremen 1952 |
| Factory Edler & Krische Hannover1952/53 |
| Office and commercial building Stichweh Hannover 1954 |
| Reconstruction Friedenskirche Ludwigshafen 1955/56 |
| Ministry for feeding, agriculture and forestry Kiel 1955/56 |
| Factroy Geha Hannover 1955-1960 |
| Primary school Uhlandstraße Hannover 1957/58 |
| Fridtjof Nansen School Hannover 1960-1962 |
| Chancellery of the protestant churches in Germany Hannover 1964/65 |
| University children's hospital with nurses home Kiel 1971-1977 |
| Ralph Haas: Ernst Zinsser. Leben und Werk eines Architekten der fünfziger Jahre in Hannover. Hannover 2000 (Diss. Universität Hannover 1999) |