Jack Louis Levinson

Jack Louis Levinson (* 20th August 1916 ;? † 1989) was an entrepreneur in the mining and finance in South-West Africa , now Namibia . Levinson was Mayor of Windhoek between 1963 and 1965 .

Levinson, who was of Jewish faith , married the art patron and author Olga May Levinson in 1943 . He lived with her for some time in the famous Heinitzburg in Windhoek. They were considered one of the wealthiest families in the country at the time.

The Levinson Arcade pedestrian zone in Windhoek is still named after Levinson today (as of December 2017) .

literature

Heilwig Andreae: The Levinson collection: Being the Olga and Jack Levinson collection of SWA / Namibian art , Art Archives University of Pretoria, Pretoria 1986, ISBN 978-0869795934 .

Individual evidence

↑ Standard Notices. The Law Society of Namibia, March 30, 1990. ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Biographies of Namibian Personalities. Klaus Dierks . Retrieved December 14, 2017.
^ The Jewish Contribution on the Development of South West Africa / Namibia. August 30, 2007.
↑ Olga Levinson. Namibiana.de, February 15, 2012.
Jump up ↑ Victor L. Tonchi, William A. Lindeke, John J. Grotpeter: Historical Dictionary of Namibia , Scarecrow Press, United Kingdom 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-5398-0 , p. 237.
^ Levinson Arcade. geoview.info. Retrieved December 14, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Levinson, Jack Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Levinson, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Namibian businessman and Mayor of Windhoek
DATE OF BIRTH	August 20, 1916
DATE OF DEATH	21st century

[1] Standard Notices. The Law Society of Namibia, March 30, 1990. ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[dierks-2] Biographies of Namibian Personalities. Klaus Dierks . Retrieved December 14, 2017.

[3] The Jewish Contribution on the Development of South West Africa / Namibia. August 30, 2007.

[4] Olga Levinson. Namibiana.de, February 15, 2012.

[5] Jump up ↑ Victor L. Tonchi, William A. Lindeke, John J. Grotpeter: Historical Dictionary of Namibia , Scarecrow Press, United Kingdom 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-5398-0 , p. 237.

[6] Levinson Arcade. geoview.info. Retrieved December 14, 2017.