Heinrich Mendelssohn
Heinrich Mendelssohn 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 Poznań, Poland in 1881. In cooperation with Albert Heilmann, Mendelssohn constructed the Europahaus in Berlin, which today houses the :de:Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung|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 of the British actor Daniel Gerroll, whose mother was Heinrich's paramour from 1949 to 1959.
