Wannsee Cemetery, Lindenstrasse

Magen David in a Christian cross on the cemetery wall

Bronze group by Ernst Westphal , 1899, for Guthmann's hereditary funeral

Honorary grave of Hermann von Helmholtz

The Wannsee Cemetery, Lindenstrasse is located in Berlin-Wannsee , Lindenstrasse 1–2. It was laid out in 1886 for the residents of the Alsen Colony . To distinguish it from the Old Wannsee Cemetery on Friedenstraße, it traditionally bears the name Neuer Friedhof Wannsee or Friedhof Wannsee II .

history

The banker and founder of the Alsenkolonie Wilhelm Conrad was also a member of the Berlin Club . He was able to inspire a number of club members with the idea of spending the summer far outside the city on the Wannsee and shopping there. He wants to take care of the exclusive ambience himself. The connection to the city of Berlin through the establishment of the Wannseebahn meant that the summer seats were converted into representative permanent residential complexes, which foreseeably also made a cemetery necessary. Since many of the club members were baptized Jews with unbaptized relatives, he and Oscar Huldschinsky made sure that this cemetery was set up for all creeds. A small symbol on the cemetery wall - a Christian cross connected to a Star of David - still testifies to this unusual and pragmatic approach. Otto Stahn , who was also buried here, built the cemetery chapel. In 1918, the western enclosure wall was broken through and the cemetery was expanded by around three and a half acres (9,000 m²) of land.

War graves in the form of individual graves are laid out along a wall. For many, the rank of the Volksbund could be specified. A total of 75 war dead are here, 26 of them are unknown. There is a monument next to the church.

The New Cemetery has been declared Monument of the Month in March 2019 by the Steglitz-Zehlendorf District Office .

Graves of famous people

(* = Honor grave of the state of Berlin)

• Eduard Arnhold * (1849–1925), coal baron, patron and art collector
• Karl Bernhard (1859–1937), bridge engineer
• Albert Bessler (1905–1975), actor
• Wilhelm Conrad * (1822–1899), banker, founder of the villa colony
• Hermann Ende * (1829–1907), architect
• Nelson Faßbender , chocolate maker with 50 branches
• Hermine Feist (1855–1933), at times the most important private porcelain collector, daughter of the coal wholesaler Caesar Wollheim , died impoverished
• Emil Fischer * (1852–1919), chemist, Nobel Prize winner
• Richard Greeff * (1862–1938), ophthalmologist, director of the Charité eye clinic
• Robert Guthmann , co-owner of the Rüdersdorf lime works and owner of the Neu-Kladow estate
• Martin Hahn * (1865–1934), director of the Hygienic Institute Berlin
• Johann Hamspohn (1840–1926), politician, AEG director
• Hermann von Helmholtz * (1821–1894), physiologist and physicist (with a small private cemetery with members of the Siemens family)
• Oscar Huldschinsky (1846–1931), businessman and patron of Berlin's museums
• Franz Oppenheim (1852–1929), chemist, director of Agfa
• Johannes Otzen * (1839–1911), architect, master church builder
• Hans Richter (notary) * (1876–1955), notary (honorary grave as custodian of cultural property in the Third Reich)
• Ferdinand Sauerbruch * (1875–1951), famous surgeon
• Arthur Scherbius (1878–1929), inventor and entrepreneur (grave not preserved)
• Agnes Sorma * Countess Minotto (1865-1927), actress in Arizona died
• Fritz Springer , publisher (1850–1944), family grave
• Otto Stahn (1859–1930), architect
• Ferdinand Tiemann (1848–1899), chemist (grave not preserved)
• Paul Straßmann * (1866–1938), gynecologist and his daughter Antonie Straßmann
• Hugo Vogel * (1855–1934), history and portrait painter
• Paul Wenzel *, benefactor, founded the Paul Wenzel Home and other day care centers

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  Small private cemetery of the family of Hermann von Helmholtz

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  Sculpture by Adele Paasch for the gynecologist Paul Straßmann

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  Max Frick's mourners for the Otto Stahn family grave

Web links

Commons : Friedhof Wannsee, Lindenstrasse  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Background to the tombstone “Meyer”, granddaughter of Max Liebermann
• Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
• Wannsee cemetery, Lindenstrasse - useful information on the website of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district office on Berlin.de.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wannsee II (ld.FH) . denkfried.de, accessed on April 7, 2019.
2. ↑ Memorial of the Month March 2019: The New Cemetery in Wannsee . District Office Steglitz-Zehlendorf of Berlin, accessed on April 7, 2019 (PDF).

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 30.8 ″  N , 13 ° 9 ′ 13.9 ″  E