The Waldfriedhof Dahlem ( Dahlem forest cemetery) is a cemetery in

Berlin Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European U ...

, in the district of

Steglitz-Zehlendorf Steglitz-Zehlendorf () is the sixth borough of Berlin, formed in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform by merging the former boroughs of Steglitz and Zehlendorf. Home to Free University of Berlin, the Berlin Botanical Garden, and a variety of m ...

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 Gottfried Benn (2 May 1886 – 7 July 1956) was a German poet, essayist, and physician. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1951. Biography and work Family and beginnings Go ...

, composers such as Wolfgang Werner Eisbrenner and entertainers like

Harald Juhnke Harald Juhnke () (born Harry Heinz Herbert Juhnke, 10 June 1929 – 1 April 2005), was a German actor, comedian, and singer. Life and career Juhnke was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg. His father was a police officer and his mother came from a ...

, and put it among the so-called "Prominentenfriedhöfe" or celebrity cemeteries.

Graves of notable people

Karl Anton Karl Anton or Karel Anton (25 October 1898 12 April 1979) was a Bohemian-born German film director, screenwriter and film producer. Biography He was born in Prague on 25 October 1898. His father Wilhelm Anton (1861–1918) was a physician. An ...

(1898–1979), film director and film producer *

Michael Ballhaus Michael Ballhaus, A.S.C. (5 August 1935 – 12 April 2017) was a German cinematographer who collaborated with directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols and James L. Brooks. He was a member of both the Academy of ...

(1935–2017), cinematographer *

Antoinette Becker Antoinette Becker (born Antoinette Mathis, 5 April 1920 – 29 August 1998) was a French-German author, especially of books for children and young people. She also translated, such as Aribert Reimann's opera ''Lear''. Career Born Antoinette Ma ...

(1920–1998), writer *

Carl Heinrich Becker Carl Heinrich Becker (12 April 1876 – 10 February 1933) was a German orientalist and politician in Prussia. In 1921 and 1925–1930 he served as Minister for Culture in Prussia (independent). He was one of the founders of the study of t ...

(1876–1933), orientalist and politician *

(1886–1956), poet *

Heinz Berggruen Heinz Berggruen (6 January 1914 – 23 February 2007) was a German art dealer and collector who sold 165 works of art to the German federal government to form the core of the Berggruen Museum in Berlin, Germany. Biography Berggruen was born in ...

(1914–2007), art collector * Frank Michael Beyer (1928–2008), composer *

Hans-Otto Borgmann Hans-Otto Borgmann (20 October 1901 – 26 July 1977) was a German film music composer during the Third Reich. He joined UFA as a silent film music conductor in 1928, and became head composer by 1931. A melody he had composed for a documenta ...

(1901–1977), film composer *

Bully Buhlan Bully Buhlan (3 February 1924 – 7 November 1982) was a German musician and actor.Barnett p.180 Filmography References Bibliography * Barnett, David. ''A History of the Berliner Ensemble''. Cambridge University Press, 2015. External links * ...

(1924–1982), singer, actor *

Carl Correns Carl Erich Correns (19 September 1864 – 14 February 1933) was a German botanist and geneticist notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, which he achieved simultaneously but independently of the botanis ...

(1864–1933), botanist *

Ernst von Delius Ernst von Delius (29 March 1912 – 26 July 1937) was a racing driver from Germany. Von Delius died at the age of 25 years at the Nürburgring Circuit during the 1937 German Grand Prix, having suffered a fatal collision with Richard Seaman ...

(1912–1937), racecar driver * Alexander Dinghas (1908–1974), mathematician *

Franz Dischinger Franz Dischinger (8 October 1887 - 9 January 1953) was a pioneering German civil and structural engineer, responsible for the development of the modern cable-stayed bridge. He was also a pioneer of the use of prestressed concrete, patenting the ...

(1887–1953), civil and structural engineer *

Blandine Ebinger Blandine Ebinger (born Blandine Loeser) (4 November 1899, in Berlin – 25 December 1993, in Berlin) was a German actress and ''chansonniere''. Career Ebinger became acquainted with Friedrich Hollaender in 1919, and with him she became heavi ...

(1899–1993), actress and

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Karin Eickelbaum Karin may refer to: * Karin (given name), a feminine name Fiction * ''Karin'' (manga) or ''Chibi Vampire'', a Japanese media franchise * Karin Hanazono, title character of the manga and anime ''Kamichama Karin'' * Karin Kurosaki, a character in ' ...

(1937–2004), actress *

Carl Otto von Eicken Carl Otto von Eicken (31 December 1873, Mülheim an der Ruhr – 29 June 1960, Heilbronn) was a German otorhinolaryngologist. Biography He studied medicine at the universities of Kiel, Geneva, Munich, Berlin, and Heidelberg, where he served as an a ...

(1873–1960), physician *

Adolf Erman Johann Peter Adolf Erman (; 31 October 185426 June 1937) was a renowned German Egyptologist and lexicographer. Life Born in Berlin, he was the son of Georg Adolf Erman and grandson of Paul Erman and Friedrich Bessel. Educated at Leipzig and B ...

(1854–1937), egyptologist and lexicographer * Wolfgang Werner Eisbrenner (1908–1981), composer and conductor * Friedrich Fedde (1873–1942), botanist *

Curth Flatow Curth Flatow (9 January 1920 – 4 June 2011) was a German dramatist and screenwriter who started his career in post-war Germany specializing in light comedy. Flatow was born in Berlin. Many of his plays have been adapted for the big screen. On ...

(1920–2011), dramatist and screenwriter * Ernst Fraenkel (1898–1975), political scientist *

Roland Freisler Roland Freisler (30 October 1893 – 3 February 1945), a German Nazi jurist, judge, and politician, served as the State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice from 1934 to 1942 and as President of the People's Court from 1942 to 1945. A ...

(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 Ulrich-Wilhelm Graf von Schwerin von Schwanenfeld (21 December 1902 – 8 September 1944) was a German landowner, officer, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. His name is commonly shortened to Schwerin. Biography Count Schwerin ...

(see below), is also buried in the cemetery. *

Ludwig Fulda Ludwig Anton Salomon Fulda (July 7, 1862 – March 7, 1939) was a German playwright and poet, with a strong social commitment. He lived with Moritz Moszkowski's first wife Henriette, née Chaminade, younger sister of pianist and composer Cécil ...

(1862–1939), playwright and translator *Manfred Gross (1951-2017), pediatric audiologist and medical researcher * Klaus Gysi (1912–1999), politician *

Ernst Hartert Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (29 October 1859 – 11 November 1933) was a widely published German ornithologist. Life and career Hartert was born in Hamburg, Germany on 29 October 1859. In July 1891, he married the illustrator Claudia Bernadine ...

(1859–1933), ornithologist * O.E. Hasse (1903–1978), actor *

Heinz Hentschke Heinz Hentschke (born 20 February 1895 in Berlin, Germany; died 3 July 1970 in Berlin) was an actor, director and librettist of German-language operettas. Hentschke started out as a theatrical actor working mainly in Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg. He ...

(1895–1970), actor, director and librettist * Günter Herlitz (1913–2010), businessman ( Herlitz stationery company) *

Klaus Höhne Klaus Höhne (13 June 1927 in Hamburg – 21 August 2006 in Murnau am Staffelsee) was a German actor. From 1971 until 1979 he starred in the Hessischer Rundfunk version of the popular television crime series ''Tatort''. In 1974 he appeared ...

(1927–2006), actor *

Carl Hofer Karl Christian Ludwig Hofer or ''Carl Hofer'' (11 October 1878, Karlsruhe – 3 April 1955, Berlin) was a German expressionist painter. He was director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. One of the most prominent painters of expressioni ...

(1878–1955), painter *

Helene Jacobs Helene Jacobs (; 25 February 1906, Schneidemühl – 13 August 1993, Berlin) was a member of the Confessing Church and of the German Resistance against National Socialism. Life Jacobs was the secretary to a Jewish patent attorney and (from 1 ...

(1906–1993),

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* La Jana (1905–1940), dancer and actress *

Werner Janensch Werner Ernst Martin Janensch (11 November 1878 – 20 October 1969) was a German paleontologist and geologist. Biography Janensch was born at Herzberg (Elster). In addition to Friedrich von Huene, Janensch was probably Germany's most imp ...

(1878–1969), paleontologist and geologist *

(1929–2005), actor and entertainer *

Josef Paul Kleihues Josef Paul Kleihues (11 June 1933, Rheine – 13 August 2004, Berlin) was a German architect, most notable for his decades long contributions to the "critical reconstruction" of Berlin. His design approach has been described as "poetic rationalist" ...

(1933–2004), architect * Friedrich Wilhelm Kopsch (1868–1955), anatomist *

Hilde Körber Hilde Körber (3 July 1906 – 31 May 1969) was an Austrian film actress who worked largely in the German Film Industry. She appeared in 53 films between 1930 and 1964. She was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary and died in West Berlin, West ...

(1906–1969), actress *

Hans Christian Korting Hans Christian Korting (March 21, 1952 in Tübingen, Germany – February 25, 2012 in Berlin) was a German dermatologist and medical researcher specializing in causes and treatment of infectious and non-infectious inflammatory skin disease ...

(1952–2012), dermatologist and medical researcher * Robert H. Lochner (1918–2003), journalist * Bobby E. Lüthge (1891–1964), screenwriter *

Wolfgang Lukschy Wolfgang Lukschy (19 October 1905 – 10 July 1983 in Berlin) was a German actor and dubber. He performed in theater, film and television. He made over 75 film and television appearances between 1940 and 1979. Possibly his most noted performan ...

(1905–1983), actor *

Marie-Elisabeth Lüders Marie-Elisabeth Lüders (June 25, 1878 – March 23, 1966) was a German politician and women's rights activist. Lüders was born in Berlin as the descendant of the 18th century agricultural reformer Philipp Ernst Lüders. Her father was a seni ...

(1878–1966), politician *

Leny Marenbach Leny Marenbach (20 December 1907 – 26 January 1984) was a German film actress. She was a leading German actress of the Nazi era, appearing in films such as the biopic '' Friedemann Bach''.Schulte-Sasse p.332 After the Second World War, she appe ...

(1907–1984), actress *

Arnold Marquis Arnold Marquis (6 April 1921 – 24 November 1990) was a German actor and voice talent. He was one of the best known and most frequently used dubbing voices of Germany, known especially as the voice of "tough guys" like John Wayne, Charles Bronson ...

(1921–1990), actor *

Erich Mühsam Erich Mühsam (6 April 1878 – 10 July 1934) was a German-Jewish antimilitarist anarchist essayist, poet and playwright. He emerged at the end of World War I as one of the leading agitators for a federated Bavarian Soviet Republic, for whi ...

(1878–1934), author and anarchist, murdered in

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Zenzl Mühsam Zenzl Mühsam (born Kreszentia Elfinger: 27 July 1884 – 10 March 1962) was a political activist who was involved, with her husband, Erich Mühsam, in the Bavarian Soviet Republic, Munich Soviet (''"workers' council"'') of 1919. Fifteen years ...

(1884–1962), anarchist *

Rudolf Nelson Rudolf Nelson (4 April 1878 – 5 February 1960) was a German composer of hit songs, film music, operetta and vaudeville, and the founder and director of the Nelson Revue, a significant cabaret troupe on the 1930s Berlin nightlife scene. Biograp ...

(1878–1960), composer and theatre director *

Hermann Noack Hermann Noack, or Noack Foundry (German: ''Bildgießerei Hermann Noack GmbH & Co.''), is a German art foundry in Berlin, named after its original proprietor and his three direct descendants, all with the same name, who have run the business. ...

(1895–1958), Art and bronze caster; gravestone with relief tablet based on a model by

Ernst Barlach Ernst Heinrich Barlach (2 January 1870 – 24 October 1938) was a German expressionist sculptor, medallist, printmaker and writer. Although he was a supporter of the war in the years leading to World War I, his participation in the war made him c ...

Bernd Rosemeyer Bernd Rosemeyer (14 October 1909 – 28 January 1938) was a German racing driver and speed record holder. He is considered one of the greatest racing drivers of all time. Though he was not a member of the Nazi party, he was made a member of the ...

(1909–1938), racecar driver, with his wife

Elly Beinhorn Elly Beinhorn (30 May 1907 – 28 November 2007) was a German pilot. Life Early life She was born in Hannover, Germany on 30 May 1907. In 1928, she attended a lecture by famed aviator Hermann Köhl, who had recently completed a historic ...

, aviator * Heinrich Sahm (1877–1939), mayor of Berlin and administrator of

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Günter Schabowski Günter Schabowski (; 4 January 1929 – 1 November 2015) was an East German politician who served as an official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (''Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands'' abbreviated ''SED''), the ruling party du ...

(1929–2015), politician of East Germany *

Wolfgang Schleif Wolfgang Schleif (14 May 1912 – 21 August 1984) was a German film director, screenwriter and film editor. Life and career Wolfgang Schleif studied philosophy, psychology and pedagogy at the University of Leipzig. In 1934 he passed the Sta ...

(1912–1984), film director *

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (Karl Schmidt until 1905; 1 December 1884 – 10 August 1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker; he was one of the four founders of the artist group Die Brücke. Life and work Schmidt-Rottluff was born in Ro ...

* (1884–1976), painter * Walther Schreiber (1884–1958), mayor of Berlin *

Franz Schreker Franz Schreker (originally ''Schrecker''; 23 March 1878 – 21 March 1934) was an Austrian composer, conducting, conductor, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, Schreker developed a style characterized by aesthetic plurality ...

* (1878–1934), composer *

(1902–1944), resistor *

Renée Sintenis Renée Sintenis, née Renate Alice Sintenis (20 March 1888 – 22 April 1965), also known as Frau Emil R. Weiss, was a German sculptor, medallist, and graphic artist who worked in Berlin. She created mainly small-sized animal sculptures, fem ...

* (1888–1965), sculptress *

Werner Sombart Werner Sombart (; ; 19 January 1863 – 18 May 1941) was a German economist and sociologist, the head of the "Youngest Historical School" and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century. ...

* (1863–1941), sociologist *

Camilla Spira Camilla Spira (1 March 1906 – 25 August 1997) was a German film actress. She appeared in 68 films between 1924 and 1986. She was born in Hamburg, Germany, of Jewish ancestry on her father's side, and died in Berlin, Germany. Her father was ...

(1906–1997), actress * Herbert Stass (1919–1999), actor *

Ilse Steppat Ilse Paula Steppat (30 November 1917 – 21 December 1969) was a German actress. Her husband was noted actor and director Max Nosseck. Biography She began her cinematic career at the age of 15 playing Joan of Arc. Steppat appeared regularly on ...

(1917–1969), actress *

Ivan Stranski Ivan Nikolov Stranski ( bg, Иван Николов Странски; german: Iwan Nikolow Stranski; 2 January 1897 – 19 June 1979) was a Bulgarian physical chemist who is considered the father of crystal growth research. He was the founder o ...

(1897–1979), Bulgarian physical chemist *

Käte Stresemann Käte Stresemann (née Kleefeld; 15 July 1883 – 23 July 1970) was the wife of the German Chancellor, Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Gustav Stresemann. Widely admired for her elegance and intelligence, she was a prominent fig ...

(1883–1970), wife of the German Chancellor, Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Gustav Stresemann Gustav Ernst Stresemann (; 10 May 1878 – 3 October 1929) was a German statesman who served as chancellor in 1923 (for 102 days) and as foreign minister from 1923 to 1929, during the Weimar Republic. His most notable achievement was the reconc ...

Erwin Stresemann Erwin Friedrich Theodor Stresemann (22 November 1889, in Dresden – 20 November 1972, in East Berlin) was a German naturalist and ornithologist. Stresemann was an ornithologist of extensive breadth who compiled one of the first and most compr ...

* (1889–1972), zoologist *

Wolfgang Stresemann Wolfgang Gert Stresemann (20 July 1904 – 6 November 1998) was a German jurist, orchestra leader, conductor and composer. He was the intendant of the Berliner Philharmoniker from 1959 to 1978 and again from mid 1984 to early 1985, a time when ...

* (1904–1998), conductor and composer * Wilhelm Tank (1888–1967), painter *

Georg Tappert Georg Tappert (20 October 1880, in Berlin – 16 November 1957, in Berlin) was a German expressionist painter. Tappert underwent an apprenticeship as a tailor, before gaining employment at various tailoring businesses for two years. However he a ...

(1880–1957), painter *

Günter Tembrock Günter Tembrock (7 June 1918 – 26 January 2011) was an East German zoologist who pioneered the field of bioacoustics and biorhythms. He studied vocal communication in red foxes and birds. He was also a science popularizer and presented a televis ...

(1918–2011), zoologist *

Heinrich Tessenow Heinrich Tessenow (7 April 1876 – 1 November 1950) was a German architect, professor, and urban planner active in the Weimar era. Biography Tessenow is considered together with Hans Poelzig, Bruno Taut, Peter Behrens, Fritz Höger, Erns ...

* (1876–1950), architect *

Ilse Trautschold Ilse Trautschold (27 February 1906 – 17 May 1991) was a German actress. She appeared in 45 films and television shows between 1929 and 1983. Selected filmography * '' Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness'' (1929) * ''The Empress's Favouri ...

(1906–1991), actress and comedian *

Kurt Ulrich Kurt Ulrich (28 June 1905 – 11 September 1967) was a German film producer. He produced more than 140 films between 1933 and 1964. He was born in Berlin, Germany. Selected filmography * '' Everything for a Woman'' (1935) * '' Every Day Is ...

(1905–1967), film producer *

Alfred Vohrer Alfred Vohrer (29 December 1914 – 3 February 1986) was a German film director and actor. He directed 48 films between 1958 and 1984. His 1969 film '' Seven Days Grace'' was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1972 ...

(1914–1986), film director *

Fritz Arno Wagner Fritz Arno Wagner (5 December 1889 – 18 August 1958) is considered one of the most acclaimed German cinematographers from the 1920s to the 1950s. He played a key role in the Expressionist film movement during the Weimar period and is perhaps ...

(1884–1958), cinematographer *

William Wauer William Wauer (1866–1962) was a German sculptor and film director of the silent era. In 1913 he co-directed the biopic ' (1913). In 1915 he directed '' The Tunnel'' the first adaptation of Bernhard Kellermann's science fiction novel ''Der Tunn ...

* (1866–1962), sculptor and film director * Richard von Weizsäcker (1920–2015), politician, president *

Sybil Werden Sybil Werden (3 September 1924 – 27 July 2007) was a German dancer and actress during the 1950s. Life and career Born on 3 September 1924, Sybil Barbara Astrid Werden was the daughter of actress Margit Barnay and architect Hans Schmidt-Werden. F ...

(1924–2007), actress and dancer *

Theodor Wiegand Theodor Wiegand (October 30, 1864 – December 19, 1936) was one of the more famous Germany, German archaeologists. Wiegand was born in Bendorf, Rhenish Prussia. He studied at the universities of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich ...

(1864–1936), archaeologist *

Heinz-Günter Wittmann Heinz-Günter Wittmann (1 January 1927 – 31 March 1990) was a German biochemist Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. They study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. Biochemists study ...

(1927–1990), biochemist *

Jürgen Wolters Jürgen Wolters (24 June 1940 – 21 November 2015) was a German econometrician specializing in time series analysis. He is a former professor of econometrics at the Free University of Berlin. Wolters earned his diplom in mathematics from the ...

(1940–2015), professor of econometrics * Johannes Würtz (1875–1958), founder of the Behindertenpädagogik (grave is lost)

Bibliography

* Hannelore Prüfer, ''Der Berliner Gartendirektor Albert Brodersen (1857–1930)'', in: Berlinische Monatsschrift, Heft 10/1997, Seiten 77/7
online at Edition Luisenstadt
* Klaus Hammer: ''Historische Friedhöfe & Grabmäler in Berlin'', Stattbuch Verlag Berlin 1994,

External links

* {{Find a Grave cemetery Cemeteries in Berlin