French cemetery (Berlin)

View over the cemetery

Tomb for Ludwig Devrient

Pommrich grave monument. Mourners by Albert Moritz Wolff

Tomb of Peter Louis Ravené

The first French cemetery in the Oranienburger suburb of Berlin is an art-historical monument in the immediate vicinity of the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities . The French cemetery, together with the neighboring Dorotheenstädtisch-Friedrichswerder cemetery, forms the most important preserved and still used cemetery ensemble in Berlin from the 18th century . Examples of classicist tomb art from the 19th century can be found in the cemetery .

history

The First French Cemetery was laid out in 1780 on an area of 6,800 m² by the French Reformed Community of Berlin as a burial place for the descendants of the Huguenots . It was located just outside the Berlin customs wall . The entrance is in the Chausseestraße 127 (between Metro Station Natural History Museum and metro station Oranienburger Tor ) in Berlin-Mitte .

From 1835 the community used the French Cemetery II on Liesenstrasse .

Among the personalities buried in the French cemetery one can find:

Paul Ackermann (1812–1846), French linguist and writer
Frédéric Ancillon (1767–1837), tutor of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. And Prussian statesman (signed the Vienna Final Protocol on June 12, 1834 with Metternich )

Franz Bendel (1833–1874), composer

Erich Böhme (1930–2009), journalist and television presenter

Ludwig Devrient (1784–1832), actor

Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond (1818–1896), physiologist (grave leveled, there is only one plaque)

Madame Du Titre (= Marie Anna Dutitre) (1748–1827), Berlin original

Eberhard Esche (1933–2006), actor

Horst Fliegel (1938–2018), composer

Amy Frank (1896–1980), actress

Dieter Franke (1934–1982), actor

Willi Geismeier (1934–2007), art historian

Benjamin George (1739–1823), entrepreneur and patron, namesake of Georgestraße (monumental sarcophagi also of several family members)

Heinrich Greif (1907–1946), actor

Jenny Gröllmann (1947–2006), actress

Rolf Herricht (1927–1981), actor and comedian

Harry Hindemith (1906–1973), actor

Gottfried Kolditz (1922–1982), director

Karl Ludwig Michelet (1801-1893), philosopher

Hendrik George de Perponcher Sedlnitzki (1771–1856), Dutch infantry general and envoy in Berlin

Klaus Piontek (1935–1998), actor

Friedrich Quincke (1865–1934), chemist

Pierre Louis Ravené (1793–1861), industrialist and art collector - precious tomb of Friedrich August Stüler ; the lying Ravené comes from Gustav Blaeser

Käthe Reichel (1926–2012), actress

Günter Reisch (1927–2014), film director

Friedrich Richter (1894–1984), actor

Helga Sasse (1942–2013), actress

Klaus Schlesinger (1937–2001), writer

Horst Schönemann (1927–2002), actor and director

Berthold Schulze (1929–1988), actor

Carl Steffeck (1818–1890), painter

Ehrenfried Stelzer (1932–2010), Director of the Criminology Section at Humboldt University 1957–1989

Gustav Trampe (1932–2006), journalist

Fritz-Georg Voigt (1925–1995), translator, editor and editor

Peter Voigt (1933–2015), writer and director of documentaries