Old Wannsee cemetery

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The state's own Alte Friedhof Wannsee (also Friedhof Wannsee I or Friedhof Wannsee, Friedenstraße ) is located in Berlin-Wannsee at Friedenstraße 8.

The old Wannsee cemetery was inaugurated in October 1846. The chapel was built in 1886 as a morgue and was completed and rededicated in its current form through later extensions and modifications by the senior building officer Erich Schwiertz. On the southwest side of the cemetery lie soldiers and civilians who died in the fighting for the beleaguered Wannsee district in April 1945.

Graves of famous people

(* Honorary grave of the State of Berlin)

  • Fritz Ascher (born October 17, 1893, † March 26, 1970), painter and poet
  • Oskar Begas (born July 31, 1828, † November 10, 1883), painter, older brother of Reinhold Begas
  • Lothar Blanvalet August 12, 1910 - January 17, 1979, publisher
  • Eberhard Encke * (* October 27, 1881, † October 22, 1936), sculptor, in a family grave with his (better known) father
  • Erdmann Encke * (born January 26, 1843, † July 7, 1896), Imperial court sculptor
  • Hans Heinrich Franck (born November 22, 1888, † December 21, 1961), chemist (reburied in 2005 from the Pankow III cemetery)
  • Philipp Franck * (born April 9, 1860, † March 13, 1944), painter, etcher and draftsman
  • Gustav Hartmann * (born June 4, 1859, † December 23, 1938), "Der Eiserne Gustav", cab driver, Berlin original, made immortal by a novel by Hans Fallada
  • Günter Hönow (born October 21, 1923, † January 25, 2001), architect
  • Avner Werner Less (December 18, 1916 to January 7, 1987) and his wife Vera, interrogator of Adolf Eichmann
  • Friedrich Minoux * (born March 21, 1877, † October 16, 1945), industrialist
  • Hans Poelzig * (April 30, 1869, † June 14, 1936), architect
  • Rosemarie Reichwein * (* July 24, 1904, † August 5, 2002), resistance fighter and educator
  • Johannes Sievers * (born June 27, 1880, † July 20, 1969), lecturer in the Legation Council at the Foreign Office, art historian, Schinkel researcher
  • Erich Waschneck (born April 29, 1887, † September 22, 1970), director

gallery

  • Family grave of the sculptors Erdmann Encke (father) and Eberhard Encke (son)

  • Honorary grave of the painter Philipp Franck

  • Gustav Hartmann, the "Iron Gustav"

Note

The old cemetery is Wannsee recently Cemetery Wannsee, peace road or cemetery Wannsee I called. The (formerly) New Wannsee Cemetery is therefore also referred to as Wannsee Cemetery, Lindenstrasse and Wannsee II Cemetery to distinguish it .

See also

Web links

Commons : Alter Friedhof Wannsee  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wannsee Cemetery - Friedenstrasse. May 29, 2020, accessed July 6, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '50.7 "  N , 13 ° 8' 28.7"  E