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Heinz Max Lorenz Zellermayer (October 9, 1915, Berlin – October 31, 2011, Uznach, Switzerland) was a German businessperson and politician. He distinguished himself as an influential hotelier in Berlin and was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives for the CDU from 1958 to 1979.

Early life
Zellermayer was born the son of hotelier Max Zellermayer. In 1913, his father acquired what later became the Hotel am Steinplatz in Charlottenburg, an Art Nouveau building by August Endell, and ran it himself from 1916. Heinz Zellermayer graduated from high school in Berlin in 1935 and then trained as a hotel manager. From 1937 to 1945 he attended a hotel management school in Lausanne. During the Second World War he was manager of various bars. He worked for the Horcher in Berlin and for Maxime and the Bagatelle, both in Paris.

Career
In 1945 he opened his first restaurant under the name Zellermayer's and also started with the inherited Hotel am Steinplatz from his father. Also in 1945 he founded the Gaststätten Guild Berlin, which he headed until 1990. Four years later he was a co-founder of DEHOGA (German Hotel and Restaurant Association). He gained notoriety in 1949 when he persuaded Frank Howley, the commander of the American sector, to abolish the curfew in Berlin.

Zellermayer opened several restaurants and hotels in Berlin in the 1950s. The Schultheiss Bräuhaus was opened on Kurfürstendamm in 1952, followed five years later by the Parkhotel Zellermayer. He was also later co-operator of the restaurant in the Berlin radio tower. He was honored in 1953 when he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with Ribbon. In 1958 he was first elected to the Berlin House of Representatives for the CDU, where he was a member for over 20 years until 1979. He received another honor in 1968 when he was awarded the First Class Cross of Merit. In 1985 he was finally awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. After he was no longer available as head of the Berlin hotel and restaurant guild in 1990, he was appointed honorary senior master for life. In the same year, his autobiography "Everything in my time" was published.

In 2008 Zellermayer moved to Switzerland for health reasons, where he died in 2011. Zellermayer was married four times. The last marriage to Anne Zellermayer remained childless. He left his three daughters: Nicole and Franziska Zellermayer, from the second marriage to Simone Zellermayer, and Tanja Maxi Zellermayer, from the third marriage to the gallery owner Carsta Zellermayer. In his first marriage he was married to the actress Winnie Markus, whose son, Alexander Zellermayer, died in a car accident in 1982.