Aage Hansen was city engineer in Skive from the establishment of the office in 1910 to 1946/7.
Aage Hansen was born in Nexø on Bornholm. Educated Cand. polyt.
In Skive, Hansen was hired to oversee technical developments, including the waste disposal system, which after the Typhus epidemic in 1909 had made it clear that it was necessary to secure water and waste from making the inhabitants sick.
In addition to sewage and waste disposal, Hansen was responsible for the city’s new gas and electricity plants, as well as the expansion of roads, harbor, etc.
Hansen was a private person and did not participate in the social life of the city. He was considered a skilled and proper municipal official.
After retirement, Hansen moved back to Nexø, where he died at the age of 84.
Sources
- Skive Folkeblad 20/3-1963
- Kjems, Rud, Social Democrat Hjalmar Kjems – Denmark’s first elected mayor, 2014, p. 193