Friedhof Heerstraße

The cemetery Friedhof Heerstraße lies in Berlin, Germany, district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. It lies at the Trakehnerallee 1 ("Trakehner avenue No.1") beneath the Olympiastadion. The name is a little misleading today because it originally refers to the inhabitants of the Villenkolonie Heerstraße, for which this cemetery was created in 1921-24 around the Sausuhlensee ("Wild boar's lake"). The cemetery is 149,650 m ² large and created by the garden architect Erwin Barth as a forest cemetery. The chapel was constructed by Erich Blunck. Today it is not original, because its original "oriental" style was to be seen from the 1936 Summer Olympics. This view incurred Adolf Hitler and so he let decrease the tower. In 1948 the war-destroyed chapel was rebuilt in another variation.

From the beginning this cemetery was open for all, Christians, Jews, Muslims and even suiciders. Because of its idyllic location on the lake it gathers many prominent people.

Graves of prominent people

(* = Ehrengrab des Landes Berlin) ("honour grave", means = the city of Berlin pays all fees)

*Conrad Ansorge, composer and pianist
*Hermann Bamberg* (1846-1928), Berlin honour citizen
*Ottomar Batzel, local politician
*Marcus Behmer* (1879-1958), drawer
*Arnold Berliner* (1862-1942), physicist
*Leo Blech*, composer and conductor
*Werner Bloch*, Stadtältester, city-oldest
*Michael Bohnen, chamber singer
*Karl Bonhoeffer*, physician, mental specialist
*Alfred Braun*, broadcast pioneer
*Ferdinand Bruckner*, writer
*Erich Buchholz* (1891-1972), painter, drawer
*Horst Buchholz, actor
*Paul Cassirer* (1871-1925), art dealer
*Christian Chruxin (1937-2006), designer
*Theodor Däubler* (1876-1934), poet
*Alexander Dehms* (1904-1979), Stadtältester
*Frida Deman-Leider*, chamber singer
*Günter von Drenkmann*, president of the Court of Appeal, murdered
*Bill Drews* (1870-1938), Prussian Minister of the Interior
*Werner Düttmann, architect and sculptor
*Tilla Durieux*, actress
*Fritz Dylong*, Stadtältester
*Edyth Edwards* (1899-1956), actress
*Leonore Ehn* (1888-1978), actress
*Alexander Engel (1902-1968), actor
*Erich Fiedler (1901 -1981), actor
*Max Jakob Friedländer (1867-1958), art historian
*Curt Goetz*, actor and writer, with Valérie von Martens
*George Grosz*, painter and drawer
*Wolfgang Gruner, "Stachelschwein"
*Käthe Haack, actress, with her daughter Hannelore Schroth, actress
*Thea von Harbou*, writer, also film scripts
*Maximilian Harden*, journalist and writer
*Alfred Helberger* (1871-1946), painter
*Hilde Hildebrand (1897-1976), actress
*Walter Höllerer (1922-2003), literature scientist
*Karl Hofmann (1870-1940), chemist
*Arno Holz*, writer
*Hermann Jansen*, architect
*Hans-Werner Kock (1930-2003), Journalist, local TV moderator
*Georg Kolbe*, sculptor
*Willi Kollo, tenor
*Victor de Kowa*, actor , with his Japanese wife Michiko de Kowa-Tanaka, actress, singer
*August Kraus* (1868-1934), sculptor and painter
*Eduard Künneke, composer, with his daughter Evelyn Künneke, singer
*Helene Lange*, early women's lib fighter
*Horst H. Lange, jazz researcher
*Leopold Langstein* (1876-1933), child physician
*Melvin Lasky, American, writer, publisher of a famous periodical ""
*Karl Heinz Martin*, director of the Hebbel-Theater
*Hermann Minkowski* (1864-1909), mathematician and physicist, with Oskar Minkowski* (1858-1931), internalist
*Hans Joachim Moser (1889-1967), music scientist
* (1885 -1947), marathoner, walker, 2 world records, some medals, f.e. in Athens 1906
*Albert Panschow*, Stadtältester
*Josef Pelz von Felinau, writer
*Werner Peters (1918-1971), actor, ("Der Untertan") and film producer
*Günter Rexrodt (1941-2004), politician (FDP)
*Joachim Ringelnatz*, writer , poet
*Ulrich Roski (1944-2003), Liedermacher
*Oscar Sabo (1881-1969), actors, with Oscar Sabo jun. (1922-1958)
*Oskar Sala (1910-2002), composer
*Willy Schaeffers, Kabarettist (honour grave in 2001 denied)
*Edith Schollwer (1904-2002), actress and according to gravestone "the last Insulanerin"
*August Scholtis*, writer
*Johann Heinrich Schultz (1894-1970), physician, inventor of the autogenous training
*Carl Schuhmann* (1869-1946), sportsman, many medals
*Leonard Steckel* (1901-1971), actor and theatre director
*Georg Süßenguth, architect
*Jakob Tiedtke (1875-1960), actor
*Family grave of Franz Ullstein, with nude pair by Josef Thorak
*Kurt Wegner* (1898-1964), local politician
*Paul Wegener*, famous actor
*Grethe Weiser*, actress, buried as Grethe Weiser-Schwerin
*Dorothea Wieck, actress, best known as ("Mädchen in Uniform")
*Agnes Windeck (1888-1975), actress
*Jürgen Wohlrabe (1936-1995), politician, film lender
*Augusta von Zitzewitz, painter

External links

* [http://www.berlin.de/ba-charlottenburg-wilmersdorf/wissenswertes/lexikon/friedh_heerstr.html Wissenswertes]
* [http://www.berlin.de/ba-charlottenburg-wilmersdorf/org/umwelt/natur/gruenanlagen-friedhof-heerstrasse-index.html Der Friedhof Heerstraße]
* [http://www.berlin-hidden-places.de/sachindex/denkmale_skulp/charl_friedheer.htm Hidden Places: Friedhof Heerstraße]
* [http://www.luise-berlin.de/Lexikon/Chawi/F/Friedhof_Heerstrasse.htm Luise-Berlin: Friedhof_Heerstrasse]
* [http://www.knerger.de/berlin/berlin.html www.knerger.de: Berliner Friedhöfe]