Heinrich Mendelssohn

Heinrich Mendelssohn (21 February 1881 – 7 August 1959) was a German contractor and real estate developer.

Early life

Mendelssohn was born in Posen, German Empire( today Poznań, Poland) in 1881.^{[citation needed]}

A claimed connection to the family of the famous Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn has not yet been confirmed.^{[citation needed]} He is most likely the father [illegitimately] of the British actor Daniel Gerroll, whose mother was Heinrich's paramour from 1949 to 1959.^{[citation needed]}

Activity

Mendelssohn participated in the construction and development of numerous projects located in Berlin, i.e: the Hansaviertel, the Bavarian quarter, the Kurfürstendamm and the Olivaer Platz. He was also behind a development of the skyscraper at the Anhalter Station in Berlin which was named after the Saxon royal family.^[1] In cooperation with Albert Heilmann, Mendelssohn constructed the Europahaus (House of Europe) in Berlin, which today houses the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.^[2] He emigrated during the Third Reich.^{[citation needed]}

Death

Mendelssohn died in Geneva, Switzerland in 1959.^{[citation needed]}

References

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