Ben Berlin

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{{Infobox person

| name = Ben Berlin

| birth_name = Hermann Biek

| birth_date = 1896

| birth_place = Reval, Governorate of Estonia

| death_date = 1944

| death_place = England

| occupation = Jazz musician

| known_for = Founder of the Ben Berlin Dance Orchestra in 1928 (Germany)

| spouse = Vera Vinogradova

}}

Ben Berlin (born Hermann Biek; 1896–1944) was a jazz musician born in Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia) in 1896. He married composer Vera Vinogradova around 1920 and they had two children, Leopold and Nina.{{Cite web|title=ccm :: Vinogradova, Vera Vinogradova, Vera Vinogradova Biek|url=http://composers-classical-music.com/v/VinogradovaVera.htm|access-date=2021-03-06|website=composers-classical-music.com}}

Berlin founded the Ben Berlin Dance Orchestra in Germany in 1928, producing records with Deutsche Grammophon{{Cite web|url = http://grammophon-platten.de/page.php?152|title = Ben Berlin - Hermann Biek Biografie|date = |accessdate = 28 November 2014|website = Ben Berlin - Hermann Biek Biografie - Deutsches Grammophon und Schellackplatten|publisher = |last = |first = }} such as "Küss mich und morgen vergiss mich" and "Roses of Yesterday". As a Jew, he left Nazi Germany in 1933, moving to Holland, Austria, France and finally England where he died in 1944, sitting at his desk.{{cite web|url=http://eja.pri.ee/stories/Biek_en.html|title=About the Bieks|accessdate=20 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410043031/http://eja.pri.ee/stories/Biek_en.html|archive-date=10 April 2017|url-status=dead}}