Heinrich Mendelssohn

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Heinrich Mendelssohn (February 21, 1881 - August 7, 1959) was a Berlin building tycoon.

Mendelssohn was born in Poznań, 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.

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