His father, Johann Georg August Ernst von der Nonne (1798-1860) was a German nobleman originally from the city of Bodenwerder, Lower Saxony.
He is the author of a number of public and private construction projects, including the architect of the building of the Yerevan prison (built 1800, the prison has not survived), the Male gymnasium on Astafyevskaya (currently Abovyan street, built 1881), Iranian Consulate building (now on Republic Street), Male Gymnasium on Nazarovskaya (now - Amiryan Street), Profitable houses of Murtuzgulu Khan (built 1900), the Shustov Cognac Alcohol Production Plant (now Yerevan Ararat Brandy Factory, built 1907).
Later in 1898 he was elected to Yerevan City Duma, at the sametimehe was the Chairman of the Provincial Guardianship of Prisons Committee.
He died on 12 April 1919 from senile marasmus and buried in the Lutheran cemetery of Baku, Azerbaijan.
His elder brother Nikolaus von der Nonne was also an engineer and architect, as well as Mayor of Baku.