August Jachmund

August Jachmund, usually written August Jasmund in German sources, was a German architect and Prussian building official, born on 15 September 1859 in Sagard on the island of Rugen and died in 1911. After studying at the Berlin Bauakademie and the Technical University of Munich and working for the Prussian ministry of public works, he travelled in 1888 to Greece, Italy and Istanbul to study Ottoman and Byzantine architecture. In 1890 he entered Ottoman state service at the invitation of Sultan Abdulhamid II, won the competition for the new Sirkeci railway station terminal and worked on the Moltke monument at Tarabya. He taught at Ottoman schools of fine arts and engineering, chaired a commission on rebuilding after the 1894 earthquake and returned to Prussian service in 1897. He worked freelance from 1899 to 1911 and received the Ottoman Mecidiye Order second class in 1897.