List of personalities buried in the Munich forest cemetery
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. | |
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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
- Osyp Bojdunyk , Ukrainian publicist and politician ( reburied in the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv in 2010 )
- Mykola Kapustjanskyj , Ukrainian general and politician (reburied in the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv in 2010 )
- Andrij Liwyzkyj , Ukrainian politician and lawyer (later reburied in the cemetery of St. Andrew Memorial Church in South Bound Brook )
Web links
- Site plan (PDF file; 930 kB)
- Selection of graves on the website of the City of Munich ( Memento from February 22, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )