Albert Max Heilmann (1886-1949)
was an architect and contractor who worked in
Munich
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and
Berlin
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.
From 1909 to 1929, he was junior boss of his father
Jakob Heilmann
Jakob Heilmann (21 August 1846 in Geiselbach, Aschaffenburg County (Lower Franconia) – 15 February 1927 in Munich) was a German contractor.
Son of a glazier, Heilmann attended the construction school in Munich and graduated with the exam as a ...
's construction company,
Heilmann & Littmann
Heilmann & Littmann was a leading German contracting business.
It was founded in 1871 by Jakob Heilmann (1846-1927) in Regensburg as "Baugeschäft J. Heilmann" (J. Heilmann building company), and, by 1876, specialized on railway construction, lat ...
. Later he became chairman of the board of supervisors of this company, after it had been transformed into a corporation.
He constructed the ''
Europahaus'' (House of Europe) in Berlin, in which the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development is currently located, in cooperation with the Berlin building tycoon
Heinrich Mendelssohn.
Works
* Heilmann, Albert (in German): ''Das Europa-Haus in Berlin : Ein neuzeitl. Grossbau ; Seine Entstehgsgeschichte vom ersten Spatenstich bis zur Vollendg (The Europa-Haus in Berlin. A modern large building. Its history of origin, from its ground-breaking ceremony to its completion)'' Berlin: Ascher 1931.
References
External links
Photos on Albert Heilmann from ''www.jakob-heilmann.de''*
1886 births
1949 deaths
Architects from Munich
20th-century German architects
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