List of personalities buried in the Munich forest cemetery

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The list of personalities buried in the Munich forest cemetery includes well-known people who found their final resting place in the forest cemetery in the southwest of the Bavarian capital of Munich . By its nature it cannot be complete.

The graves of famous people

Note: The list is sorted according to the sections and grave numbers into which the forest cemetery is divided. Several people may have been buried in family graves or institutional burial sites.

Surname born deceased activity Grave no.
Paul May   1909   1976 Film director 1-W-5
Hans Wilhelm Kubaschewski   1907   1961 General Director 3-W-2
Use Kubaschewski   1907   2001 Film distributor 3-W-2
Albert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing   1862   1929 Psychotherapist, parapsychologist 3-W-10
Ludwig Woerl   1906   1967 Merchant 3-W-15
Heinrich Waderé   1865   1950 sculptor 4-W-5
Josef Lutz   1882   1965 City council 5-1-6
Sixtus Schmid   1868   1946 Blacksmith 5-1-66
Karl Heckl   1927   1988 Building contractor, football official 6-W-1
Friedrich Uppenborn   1859   1907 Municipal building council 6-W-3
Karl Mercenary   1871   1946 architect 7-W-2
Alfred von Bary   1873   1926 Chamber singer 7-W-9
Karl Price   1884   1946 City council 7-W-12
Hans Rauch   1885   1963 president 7-W-13
Emil Matousek   1908   1951 actor 8-1-42
Willibald Besta   1886   1949 Painter, graphic artist 8-U-22
Eduard Schmid   1861   1933 mayor 9-W-11
Anton Randlkofer   1840   1897 Merchant 11-W-6
Fritz Randlkofer   1875   1927 Delicatessen 11-W-6
Hellmuth Bunzel   1888   1973 Church council 11-W-7
Franz Strasser   1906   1995 architect 12-W-3
Adolf Baeyer   1835   1917 Chemist 13-4-18
Carl Krone   1870   1943 Circus owner, director of Circus Krone 13-W-1
Ida crown   1876   1957 Circus owner 13-W-1
Carl Sembach   1908   1984 Animal trainer and ringmaster 13-W-1
Christel Sembach-Krone   1936   2017 Circus owner 13-W-1
Frieda Sembach-Krone   1915   1995 Circus owner 13-W-1
George Grosz (Georg Groß)   1893   1959 painter 13-W-21
Franz Ragaller   1865   1941 Coppersmith 13-W-26
Robert Langguth   1924   1997 City council 14-W-1
Johann Veit Kull   1836   1920 numismatist 14-W-6
Horst Merz   1891   1979 Flight captain 14-W-35
Walther Wüstendörfer   1908   1986 City council 15-10-2
Ernst Barthels   1886   1976 State actor 15-20-5
Gottlieb Jauss   1942   1999 Trotter trainer 15-A-13
Hans Moosbrugger   1896   1971 Tourism Director 15-W-8
Johann Baptist Frey   1852   1921 Manufacturer 16-W-1
Oscar Stalf   1882   1974 Manufacturer 16-W-1
Georg Frey   1902   1976 Manufacturer 16-W-1
Marie Luise Nagel   1920   1965 Partner 16-W-1
Ludwig Drexler   1869   1941 Barrel manufacturer 16-W-14
Fritz Biffar   1889   1966 Manufacturer, Consul General 16-W-14
Annie Horn   1885   1976 Figure skater 16-W-21
Karl Rudinger   1910   1996 Ministerial Director 16-W-25
Adolf Wilhelm Ziegler   1903   1989 Church historian 16-W-34
Rudolf Mühlfenzl   1919   2000 journalist 36-W-11
Helga Martin   1940   1999 actress 16-W-37
Günter Rüdel   1883   1950 Colonel General 16-W-38
Peter Bruckmann   1850   1925 sculptor 17-W-15
Hans Böcklin   1863   1943 painter 17-W-15
Josef Rodenstock   1846   1932 Optician and founder of Rodenstock GmbH 17-W-43
Alexander Rodenstock   1883   1953 Factory owner, councilor of commerce 17-W-43
Rolf Rodenstock   1917   1997 Entrepreneur 17-W-43
Gustav Adolf Sabel   1867   1911 Commercial school director 17-W-47
Otto Koeniger   1884   1975 publisher 17-W-54
Ernst Hohenstatter   1883   1954 Editor-in-chief 17-W-72
Frank Wedekind   1864   1918 writer 17-W-88
Tilly Wedekind   1886   1970 actress 17-W-88
Kadidja Wedekind   1911   1994 Writer 17-W-88
Elisabeth Biebl   1915   1989 Actress, singer 17-W-106
Hans Schemm   1891   1935 City Councilor, MdL 19-U-2
Friedrich Wurzbach   1886   1961 writer 19-U-51
Elisabeth Wiese   1902   1989 singer 19-U-62
Leo Peukert   1885   1944 actor 21-W-1
Karl Peukert   1903   1965 actor 21-W-1
Sabina Peukert   1889   1970 actress 21-W-1
Kurt Huber   1893   1943 Professor of Musicology and Psychology 21-W-22
Clara Huber   1908   1998 Wife of Kurt Huber 21-W-22
Lorenz von Seidlein   1856   1935 Minister of State 21-W-41
Theodor Pixis   1831   1907 painter 22-W-1
Richard Wagner   1864   1961 Brewery owner 22-W-4
Rudolf Wagner   1908   1981 Brewery owner 22-W-4
Emil Pachmayr   1844   1912 pharmacist 22-W-18
Michael Schottenhamel   1838   1912 hotelier 22-W-34
Michael Schottenhamel   1876   1968 hotelier 22-W-34
Max Schottenhamel   1906   1983 Restaurateur 22-W-34
Hans Otto Schottenhamel   1913   1993 hotelier 22-W-34
Alexander Freiherr von Falkenhausen   1907   1989 machine builders 25-W-4
Marsil Count of Geldern-Egmond   1912   1985 captain 25-W-11
Michael August Shift   1851   1911 Oktoberfest showman 30-7-1
Emil Ramann   1851   1926 Forest scientist 37-A-14
Georg Kerschensteiner   1854   1932 Pedagogue 38-W-23
Josef Ruederer   1861   1915 writer 38-W-30
Alfons Goppel   1905   1991 Prime Minister of Bavaria 38-W-46a / b
Theodor Fischer   1862   1938 Architect and urban planner 39-W-14
German Bestelmeyer   1874   1942 Architect and university professor 39-W-24
Karl Theodor von Heigel   1842   1915 Historian and archivist 39-W-127
Ludwig Thuille   1861   1907 composer 40-W-6
Anton von Stadler   1850   1917 painter 40-W-41
Wilhelm Löwith   1861   1932 Austrian painter 41-3-4
Matthäus Schiestl   1869   1939 Painter, graphic artist 41-3-9
Anton Laupheimer   1848   1927 Genre painter 41-3-20
Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl   1856   1925 painter 41-3-30
Friedrich Brodersen   1873   1926 opera singer 41-W-7
Heinrich Rehkemper   1894   1949 Singer 41-W-22
Heinrich Mayr   1854   1911 Forest scientist and botanist 42-W-22
Georg Meisenbach   1841   1912 Engraver, graphic artist and entrepreneur 43-W-3
Stepan Bandera   1909   1959 Ukrainian politician, OUN 43-W-10
Otto Julius Bierbaum   1865   1910 Journalist and writer 43-W-22
Paul Heyse   1830   1914 Writer and Nobel Prize Winner 43-W-27
Lena Christ   1881   1920 Writer 44-3-14
Michael Doeberl   1861   1928 Historian and university professor 44-W-5
Karl von Gareis   1844   1923 Lawyer and specialist author 44-W-13
Rudolf Zenker   1903   1984 surgeon 44-W-18
Fritz von Uhde   1848   1911 painter 46-W-1
Ernst Penzoldt   1892   1955 Writer and sculptor 48-2-37
Elise Aulinger   1881   1965 Folk actress 51-W-65
Aloys Ansprenger   1853   1913 Builder and Mayor of Schwabings 56-W-33
Friedrich Wamsler   1852   1916 Kitchen stove manufacturer and founder of Wamsler 64-W-16
Barbara Henneberger   1940   1964 Ski racer 66-2-1
Rolf Pinegger   1873   1957 actor 69-3-19
Friedrich von Thiersch   1852   1921 Architect and painter 71-W-10
Max von Gruber   1853   1927 Medicines and botanists 73-W-4
Adolf Hieber   1898   1977 Music dealer, second mayor of Munich 73-W-6
Franz Naager   1870   1942 Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, art collector and entrepreneur 85-W-59
Hans Ehard   1887   1980 Prime Minister of Bavaria 86-W-12
Albert Krecke   1863   1932 surgeon 89-W-3
Georg von Vollmar   1850   1922 first chairman of the Bavarian SPD 90-W-11
Waldemar von Knoeringen   1906   1971 Politician 90-W-11
Joseph Suder   1892   1980 Composer, conductor 91-W-15
Paul Verhoeven   1901   1975 Director and theater director 95-W-3
Franz von Stuck   1863   1928 Draftsman, painter and sculptor 95-W-16
Lorenz Hagen   1885   1965 Trade unionists, politicians 96-W-20
Ludwig Doederlein   1855   1936 zoologist 96-W-65
Karl Raupp   1837   1918 painter 96-W-72
Rudolf Seibold   1874   1952 Austrian actor and operetta singer 103-2-29
Georg Schrimpf   1889   1938 Painter, graphic artist 103-2-31
Will Dohm   1897   1948 actor 103-W-12
Alfred Marchionini   1899   1965 Doctor and dermatologist 105-W-6
Heinrich Mitteis   1889   1952 Legal scholar 105-W-7
Karl Schönböck   1909   2001 actor 106-W-13a / b
Alois miracle   1878   1974 Lord Mayor of Pasing 108-W-32
Theodor Brannekamper   1900   1989 Civil engineer and architect 110-W-2
Paul Bender   1875   1947 opera singer 110-W-13
Albert Bäuml   1855   1929 Owner of the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory 115-W-4
Max Lesmüller   1894   1952 Pharmacists and professional representatives 118-W-12
Otto Pittinger   1878   1926 Medical Council 118-W-20-ABC
Franz Nissl   1860   1919 Psychiatrist, neuropathologist 119-W-21
Karl Stöhr   1859   1931 Architect, contractor 121-W-15
Karl of Amira   1848   1930 Legal historian 126-8
Fritz Lange   1864   1952 Orthopedist 126-W-23
Joseph Wenglein   1845   1919 painter 130-W-2
Otto Crusius   1857   1918 Philologist and university professor 130-W-43
Anton Beer-Waldbrunn   1864   1929 composer 131-U-1
Max Niedermayer   1850   1933 Senior building officer 131-W-1
Carl Hocheder   1854   1917 Architect and university professor 131-W-10
Max Reger   1873   1916 Composer, pianist and conductor 131-W-14
Joseph Haas   1879   1960 composer 131-W-15
Karl Amadeus Hartmann   1905   1963 composer 131-W-18
Wilhelm Ritter von Borscht   1857   1943 Politician, Mayor of Munich 132-W-2
Ottmar von Angerer   1850   1918 surgeon 132-W-15
Eduard von Grützner   1846   1925 Genre painter 132-W-23
Adolf Hengeler   1863   1927 Painter 132-W-25
Franz Xaver Zettler   1841   1916 Draftsman, glass painter 134-W-4
Artur coachman   1878   1960 Literary and theater scholar 136-W-12
Hans Grässel   1860   1939 Architect and City Planning Director 139-V-SG
Carl von Linde   1842   1934 Engineer and founder of Linde AG 139-W-9b
Adolf Sandberger   1864   1943 Musicologist, composer 140-W-2
Ferdinand Buchwieser   1874   1964 Cathedral Chapter, Vicar General 140-W-21
Alfred von Tirpitz   1849   1930 Grand Admiral 140-W-21
Maria Neubrand   1955   2020 Theologian (New Testament scholar), university professor and religious 141-1-5
Albanus chess director   1861   1937 Roman Catholic abbot, supporter of National Socialism 142-1-192
Eduard Eichmann   1870   1946 Theologian and canon lawyer 142-I-68
Emil Muhler   1892   1963 Priest, resistance fighters against National Socialism 142-I-108
Stephan Wellenhofer   1895   1980 Clergyman 142-I-114
Karl Abenthum   1901   1976 Catholic pastor and prelate 142-II-1
Ludwig Berberich   1882   1965 Church musicians, priests and university teachers 142-II-1
Michael Hartig   1878   1960 Art historian, Catholic theologian, cathedral capitular 142-II-4
Josef Brandner   1932   2010 Pastor and author 142a
Roderich Erwin von Kienitz   1906   1948 Theologian, state church lawyer, cathedral capitular 142a
Joseph Pascher   1893   1979 Catholic theologian 142a
Michael Schmaus   1897   1993 Theologian (dogmatist) and university professor 142a
Heidi Brühl   1942   1991 Pop singer and actress 142e-UW-31
Karl Tischlinger   1910   1983 Folk actor 142e-2-77
Franz Fendt   1892   1982 Teachers and politicians 143-1-56 / 57
Johann Baptist Bosch   1873   1932 Engineer and construction officer 146-W-11
Hugo Junkers   1859   1935 Founder of the aircraft factory of the same name 146-W-25a-c
Toni Schmid   1905   1968 publisher 156-W-16
Gustl Feldmeier   1900   1970 Merchant 156-W-20
Karl Wessely   1874   1953 Ophthalmologist 156-W-40
Wilhelm Spiegelberg   1870   1930 Egyptologist 157-W-29
Heinrich Hugendubel   1936   2005 publisher 159-W-12
Felix Berber   1871   1930 violinist 163-W-13
Werner Heisenberg   1901   1976 Physicist and Nobel Prize Winner 163-W-29
Max Proebstl   1913   1979 opera singer 176-2-81-82
Wilhelm Vienna   1864   1928 physicist 178-W-13
Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe   1872   1931 Scientist, inventor of the gyro compass 178-W-23
Hans Goltz   1873   1927 Art dealer 180-W-5
Albert Bayerle   1906   1972 Local politician, third mayor of Munich 204-1-78
Joseph Maria Lutz   1893   1972 writer 205-W-2
Karl Vossler   1872   1949 Literary historian 210-W-22
Helene Mayer   1910   1953 Fencing Olympic Champion 211-W-12
Michael Ende   1929   1995 writer 212-W-3
Fritz Wunderlich   1930   1966 Chamber singer 212-W-18
Winfried Zehetmeier   1933   2019 Second Mayor of Munich (1978–1990) 212-W-18
Hermann Böbel   1918   1990 Painter 217-UW-37
Ida Schumacher   1894   1956 Bavarian comedian 222-2-219
Gertrud Kückelmann   1929   1979 actress 226-1-33
Johanna Hofer   1896   1988 actress 246-W-23
Fritz Kortner   1892   1970 Austrian actor and director 246-W-23
Elisabeth Volkmann   1936   2006 Actress and comedian 421
Werner Finck   1902   1978 Writer and cabaret artist 485-UW-8
Leni Riefenstahl   1902   2003 Film director, producer and actress as well as screenwriter, film editor, photographer and dancer 509-W-4a / b
Hansjörg Felmy   1931   2007 actor Urn grove, tree grave no.360
Hans Adam   1886   1917 Fighter pilot
Bernd Aldenhoff   1908   1959 German opera singer
Leo Bardischewski   1914   1995 Actor and voice actor
Christoph in Bavaria   1879   1963 Wittelsbach prince
Mathilde in Bavaria   1843   1925 Noblemen from the Wittelsbach family
Georg Blädel   1906   1990 Folk singer and actor (TV series "Royal Bavarian District Court")
Ivan Butkowskyj   1910   1967 Ukrainian politician and commander
Charles Crodel   1894   1973 painter
Ernst Deuerlein   1918   1971 historian
Dmytro Doroshenko   1882   1951 Ukrainian historian and politician
Fred Endrikat   1890   1942 Writer and cabaret artist
Erich Feifel   1925   2003 theologian
Heli Finkenzeller   1911   1991 actress
Anneliese Fleyenschmidt   1919   2007 TV presenter
Herbert Fritsche   1911   1960 Author and editor
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer   1900   1988 actor
Karl Gall   1903   1939 Motorcycle racer
Emmy Goering   1893   1973 Actress, second wife of Hermann Göring
Kurt Graunke   1915   2005 Composer and conductor
Eduard Hamm   1879   1944 Bavarian Trade Minister and Reich Minister of Economics
Paul Hausser   1880   1972 SS-Oberstgruppenführer and initiator of the Waffen SS
Wolf Rüdiger Hess   1937   2001 architect
Werner Richard Heymann   1896   1961 composer
Anna Huebler   1885   1976 Figure skater
Anton Kaindl   1849   1922 sculptor
Josef Kammhuber   1896   1986 General in the German Air Force
Plato Kornyljak   1920   2000 Ukrainian bishop
Gustav Landauer   1870   1919 Theorist and activist of anarchism
Franzl Lang   1930   2015 Bavarian dialect musician
Stepan Lenkavskyi     Ukrainian publicist, activist and ideologist of the OUN
Ernst Ludolf Meyer   1848   1922 painter
Nora Minor   1910   1995 Austrian actress
Marietta di Monaco   1893   1981 Cabaret artist and diseuse
Dmytro Myskiw   1910   1983 Ukrainian political activist
Paul Neuenborn   1866   1913 Animal painter and illustrator
Clemens Ostermann   1984   2007 Voice actor and musician
Zenon Pelensky     Ukrainian political activist
Harry Piel   1892   1963 Director and actor
Rob Pilate   1965   1998 Singer and dancer of the pop duo Milli Vanilli
Hans Prinzhorn   1886   1933 Psychiatrist and art historian
Kurt Pscherer   1915   2000 Director and Artistic Director
Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer   1900   1981 Rear admiral and naval adjutant of Adolf Hitler
Lew Rebet   1912   1957 Ukrainian politician, OUN
Albert Reich   1881   1942 Painter, graphic artist and illustrator
Hugo Reichenberger   1873   1938 Conductor and composer
Herta Hall   1912   1964 actress
Pavlo Sayzev   1886   1965 Ukrainian philologist, literary critic and politician
Erich Scheibmayr   1918   2009 Funerary historian and author
Rudolf Schlichter   1890   1955 Artist
Willy Schultes   1920   2005 Bavarian folk actor
Friedrich Günther Prince of Schwarzburg   1901   1971 Head of the Schwarzburg House
Yaroslav Stetsko   1912   1986 Ukrainian politician
Rudi Stieglitz   1952   2006 Bavarian dialect musician
Georg Thurmair   1909   1984 Poet and writer
Maria Luise Thurmair   1912   1905 Theologian and writer
Maria Uhden   1892   1918 Painter and graphic artist
Eva Vaitl   1921   1988 actress
Hans-Henning von Voigt   1887   1969 Artist name Alastair, artist (draftsman, illustrator, translator, writer)
Nils Wiberg   1934   2007 Chemist
Georg Wrba   1872   1939 sculptor

People formerly buried in the forest cemetery

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