Julius Posener (4 November 1904, Lichterfelde – 29 January 1996, Berlin) was a German architectural historian, author and higher education teacher.
Coming from a bourgeois-Jewish background, son of the painter Moritz Posener and a daughter of the real estate developer Oppenheim, Julius Posener grew up in the middle-class environment in the architecturally stimulating Berlin villa colony Lichterfelde-West.
His parents had built themselves a villa in the English country home style there as founders of progressive architecture.
This environment had lastingly formed him from his own statement: I lived in Germany, the best country that there is, the best villa suburb, in the best house with the most beautiful garden wide and far ...
When I recited to myself in the evenings before going to bed, I was content with the world and loved God so gratefully.Posener's way of life and activity would be formed strongly through the break of the felt ideal and the succeeding Third Reich.