Steglitz cemetery

Water tower on the cemetery grounds

Cenotaph for the fallen of the anti-aircraft cartillery, bronze sculpture by Felix Kupsch

Karl Fischer's gravestone

Honorary grave for the painter Walter Leistikow

Portrait medallion for Julius Zimmermann by Ernst Waegener

Grave of the (downed) flight captain Hans Loeb with the sculpture Icarus by Peter Breuer (2010)

Grave of the flight captain Hans Loeb (status in February 2018)

The state -owned Steglitz cemetery in Berlin-Steglitz is a park cemetery that has existed since 1875 , the main entrance of which is on Bergstrasse 34-37. It was opened in the following year by the then independent municipality of Steglitz from 1874 on the northern edge of the Rauhen Mountains . In 1904 he received a small brick chapel, which was destroyed in the war and later rebuilt in a simplified form. The population growth led to multiple expansions of area until the 1970s. The current size is almost 27 hectares. In the south-eastern part of the cemetery there has been the memorial for the dead of the anti-aircraft cartillery with a sculpture created by Felix Kupsch since 1957 .

There are several closed war cemeteries in the cemetery . There are a total of 997 victims in individual graves and 164 victims in a collective grave. Among them are soldiers from both World Wars and civilian victims from World War II.

At the end of 2007, a strip that had never been used was cut off and a pet cemetery was created on it. It can be reached via a separate entrance on Bismarckstrasse.

At the highest point of the cemetery is the Steglitz water tower , which was completed in 1919 according to plans by Hans Heinrich Müller and is now a listed building. Originally it was on the edge of the cemetery, but was included in the cemetery design after its expansion in 1921.

Graves of famous people

( E = honor grave of the state of Berlin)

• Franz Amrehn (1912–1981), politician ( CDU )
• Rudolf Anthes (1896–1985), Egyptologist
• Hans Benzmann (1869–1926), poet and literary historian
• Goetz Bergander (pseudonym: Gottfried Paulsen) (1927–2013), journalist
• Erich Blunck (1872–1950), architect and university professor
• Leo Borchard (1899–1945), conductor and resistance fighter ( E )
• Eberhard von Brauchitsch (1926–2010), managing director of Flick KG
• Gerhard Brennecke (1916–1973) Protestant theologian, editor-in-chief and mission director
• Gustav Büchsenschütz (1902–1996), poet of the song Märkische Heide, Märkischer Sand .
• Hans Cürlis (1889–1982), cultural film director, film producer
• Peter Dienel (1923–2006), theologian and sociologist
• Karl Fischer (1881–1941), writer, founder of the Wandervogel movement
• Rudolf Fischer (1881–1957), chemist and entrepreneur
• Martin Grabert (1868–1951), composer and organist
• Hans Hartwigk (1904–1991), veterinarian
• Alexander Hasenclever (1918–1990), doctor, president of the Berlin Medical Association , city ​​elder of Berlin ( E )
• Paul Rudolf Henning (1886–1986), sculptor and architect
• Gerhard Hentrich (1924–2009), publisher
• Anton Hekking (1856–1935), musician
• Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld (1892–1929), first Atlantic high-flyer in an east-west direction 1928 ( E )
• Hans Jeschonnek (1899–1943), Chief of Staff of the Air Force
• Günther Korten (1898–1944), Colonel General
• Reinhold Kraetke (1845–1934), State Secretary of the Reich Post Office
• Kurt Krigar (1921–2009), documentary filmmaker
• Walter Leistikow (1865–1908), landscape painter ( E )
• Rudolf Mönnich (1854–1922), architect
• Verena Pfisterer (1941–2013), artist
• Walter Rütt (1883–1964), racing cyclist ( E )
• Eduard Seler (1849–1922), Old America researcher
• Hildegard Strübing (1922–2013), zoologist
• Rudolf Arthur Teschner (1922–2006), chess master and journalist
• Friedrich Weinhausen (1867–1925), writer and politician ( DDP )
• Ewald Wenck (1891–1981), actor
• Eugen Weschke (1932–2012), criminologist
• Julius Zimmermann (1834–1902), Mayor of Steglitz ( E )

Abandoned tombs

• Maximilian Gritzner (1843–1902), heraldist
• Hugo Fischer-Köppe (1890–1937), actor
• Richard Flockenhaus (1876–1943), painter
• Heinrich Harder (1858–1935), landscape painter
• Berthold von Kern (1848–1940), Senior Staff Physician, author of several works on problems of epistemology
• Albert Maennchen (1873–1935), painter, sculptor, architect
• Emil Schallopp (1843–1919), chess master and stenographer
• Otto Stiehl (1860–1940), architect

literature

• Wolfgang Holtz, Christian Simon: Graves and lived life - the Bergstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Steglitz. With contributions by Wolfgang Becker-Brüser (ed.), Monika Gesierich, Ludwig Schlottke. AVI Arzneimittel-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-921687-34-5 .

Web links

Commons : Friedhof Steglitz  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Steglitz cemetery on the website of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district office on Berlin.de.
• Query of honorary graves : honorary graves in the Steglitz cemetery . Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment on Berlin.de.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of Berlin cemeteries
2. ↑ SenUVK (ed.): Graves of the victims of war and tyranny, inventory of individual graves and collective graves . Berlin January 8, 2020, p. 12 .
3. ↑ Press release on the pet cemetery ( Memento from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
5. ↑ List of honorary graves in the State of Berlin (PDF; 413 kB)

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '23.9 "  N , 13 ° 20' 37"  E