Ernst Heinrich Lindemann

Ernst Heinrich Lindemann (25 January 1833– 8 May 1900) was a German politician and mayor of Essen, Dortmund and Düsseldorf.

His grandson Kapitän zur See Ernst Lindemann was the commander of the battleship Bismarck in World War II.

Lindemann studied law at the universities in Bonn, Heidelberg and Berlin from 1851 to 1854.

He resigned from office and worked as a bank director of the Westdeutschen Versicherungs-Aktienbank and then as general director of the Bochumer Verein für Bergbau und Gußstahlfabrikation (BVG), an iron factory, belonging to Friedrich Grillo.

His oldest son, Georg Heinrich Ernst Lindemann, was the father of the Captain of the battleship Bismarck, Otto Ernst Lindemann.