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 Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

) in 1881. A claimed connection to the family of the famous Jewish philosopher

Moses Mendelssohn Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the ''Haskalah'', or ' ...

has not yet been confirmed. He is most likely the father llegitimatelyof the British actor

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, whose mother was Heinrich's paramour from 1949 to 1959.

Activity

Mendelssohn participated in the construction and development numerous projects located in Berlin, i.e: the

Hansaviertel The Hansaviertel () is the smallest ''Ortsteil'' (district) of Berlin and is between Großer Tiergarten and the Spree River, within the central Mitte borough of Berlin. The district was almost completely destroyed during World War II but was re ...

, the Bavarian quarter, the

Kurfürstendamm The Kurfürstendamm (; colloquially ''Ku'damm'', ; en, Prince Elector Embankment) is one of the most famous avenues in Berlin. The street takes its name from the former ''Kurfürsten'' (prince-electors) of Brandenburg. The broad, long boulevar ...

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.In cooperation with Albert Heilmann, Mendelssohn constructed the Europahaus (House of Europe) in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

, which today houses the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. He emigrated during the

Third Reich Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

Death

Mendelssohn died in

Geneva , neighboring_municipalities= Carouge, Chêne-Bougeries, Cologny, Lancy, Grand-Saconnex, Pregny-Chambésy, Vernier, Veyrier , website = https://www.geneve.ch/ Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevr ...

, Switzerland in 1959.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mendelssohn, Heinrich 1881 births 1959 deaths Businesspeople from Poznań Businesspeople in construction German businesspeople in real estate People from the Province of Posen German emigrants to Switzerland