Heinrich Mendelssohn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German contractor
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Place of Birth: Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
About Heinrich Mendelssohn
- Heinrich Mendelssohn (21 February 1881 – 7 August 1959) was a German contractor and real estate developer.
- He participated in the construction and development 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.Mendelssohn was born in Posen, German Empire today Poznan, Poland in 1881.
- 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.
- He emigrated during the Third Reich, and died in Geneva, Switzerland in 1959. A claimed connection to the family of the famous Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn has not yet been confirmed. He is most likely the father [illegitimately] of the British actor Daniel Gerroll, whose mother was Heinrich's paramour from 1949 to 1959.
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See Also
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