Waldfriedhof Dahlem

Cemetery in Berlin, Germany

52°27′22″N 13°15′50″E / 52.456°N 13.264°E / 52.456; 13.264Size75,407 m²No. of graves40,000Find a Grave1982889

The Waldfriedhof Dahlem (Dahlem forest cemetery) is a cemetery in Berlin, in the district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf on the edge of the Grunewald forest at Hüttenweg 47. Densely planted with conifers and designed between 1931 and 1933 after the plans of Albert Brodersen, it is one of Berlin's more recent cemeteries. Its graves include those of writers such as Gottfried Benn, composers such as Wolfgang Werner Eisbrenner and entertainers like Harald Juhnke, and put it among the so-called "Prominentenfriedhöfe" or celebrity cemeteries.

Graves of notable people

Karl Anton (1898–1979), film director and film producer
Michael Ballhaus (1935–2017), cinematographer
Antoinette Becker (1920–1998), writer
Carl Heinrich Becker (1876–1933), orientalist and politician
Gottfried Benn (1886–1956), poet
Heinz Berggruen (1914–2007), art collector
Frank Michael Beyer (1928–2008), composer
Hans-Otto Borgmann (1901–1977), film composer
Bully Buhlan (1924–1982), singer, actor
Carl Correns (1864–1933), botanist
Ernst von Delius (1912–1937), racecar driver
Alexander Dinghas (1908–1974), mathematician
Franz Dischinger (1887–1953), civil and structural engineer
Blandine Ebinger (1899–1993), actress and chansonnière
Karin Eickelbaum (1937–2004), actress
Carl Otto von Eicken (1873–1960), physician
Adolf Erman (1854–1937), Egyptologist and lexicographer
Wolfgang Werner Eisbrenner (1908–1981), composer and conductor
Friedrich Fedde (1873–1942), botanist
Curth Flatow (1920–2011), dramatist and screenwriter
Ernst Fraenkel (1898–1975), political scientist
Roland Freisler (1893–1945), notorious chief judge of the Nazi People's Court. He is buried in his wife's family plot in an unmarked grave. Ironically, one of his victims, Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld (see below), is also buried in the cemetery.
Ludwig Fulda (1862–1939), playwright and translator
Klaus Gysi (1912–1999), politician
Ernst Hartert (1859–1933), ornithologist
O.E. Hasse (1903–1978), actor
Heinz Hentschke (1895–1970), actor, director and librettist
Günter Herlitz (1913–2010), businessman (Herlitz stationery company)
Klaus Höhne (1927–2006), actor
Carl Hofer (1878–1955), painter
Helene Jacobs (1906–1993), resister
La Jana (1905–1940), dancer and actress
Werner Janensch (1878–1969), paleontologist and geologist
Harald Juhnke (1929–2005), actor and entertainer
Josef Paul Kleihues (1933–2004), architect
Friedrich Wilhelm Kopsch (1868–1955), anatomist
Hilde Körber (1906–1969), actress
Hans Christian Korting (1952–2012), dermatologist and medical researcher
Robert H. Lochner (1918–2003), journalist
Bobby E. Lüthge (1891–1964), screenwriter
Wolfgang Lukschy (1905–1983), actor
Marie-Elisabeth Lüders (1878–1966), politician
Leny Marenbach (1907–1984), actress
Arnold Marquis (1921–1990), actor
Erich Mühsam (1878–1934), author and anarchist, murdered in Oranienburg concentration camp
Zenzl Mühsam (1884–1962), anarchist
Rudolf Nelson (1878–1960), composer and theatre director
Hermann Noack (1895–1958), Art and bronze caster; gravestone with relief tablet based on a model by Ernst Barlach
Bernd Rosemeyer (1909–1938), racecar driver, with his wife Elly Beinhorn, aviator
Heinrich Sahm (1877–1939), mayor of Berlin and administrator of Free State of Danzig
Günter Schabowski (1929–2015), politician of East Germany
Wolfgang Schleif (1912–1984), film director
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff* (1884–1976), painter
Walther Schreiber (1884–1958), mayor of Berlin
Franz Schreker* (1878–1934), composer
Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld (1902–1944), resister
Renée Sintenis* (1888–1965), sculptor
Werner Sombart* (1863–1941), sociologist
Camilla Spira (1906–1997), actress
Herbert Stass (1919–1999), actor
Ilse Steppat (1917–1969), actress
Ivan Stranski (1897–1979), Bulgarian physical chemist
Käte Stresemann (1883–1970), wife of the German Chancellor, Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Gustav Stresemann
Erwin Stresemann* (1889–1972), zoologist
Wolfgang Stresemann* (1904–1998), conductor and composer
Wilhelm Tank (1888–1967), painter
Georg Tappert (1880–1957), painter
Günter Tembrock (1918–2011), zoologist
Heinrich Tessenow* (1876–1950), architect
Ilse Trautschold (1906–1991), actress and comedian
Kurt Ulrich (1905–1967), film producer
Alfred Vohrer (1914–1986), film director
Fritz Arno Wagner (1884–1958), cinematographer
William Wauer* (1866–1962), sculptor and film director
Richard von Weizsäcker (1920–2015), politician, president
Sybil Werden (1924–2007), actress and dancer
Theodor Wiegand (1864–1936), archaeologist
Heinz-Günter Wittmann (1927–1990), biochemist
Jürgen Wolters (1940–2015), professor of econometrics
Johannes Würtz (1875–1958), founder of the Behindertenpädagogik (exact location of grave is unknown)

Bibliography

Hannelore Prüfer, Der Berliner Gartendirektor Albert Brodersen (1857–1930), in: Berlinische Monatsschrift, Heft 10/1997, Seiten 77/78 online at Edition Luisenstadt
Klaus Hammer: Historische Friedhöfe & Grabmäler in Berlin, Stattbuch Verlag Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-922778-32-1