List of the graves of well-known personalities in the Bornstedter Friedhof

The list of the graves of well-known personalities in the Bornstedter Friedhof names well-known personalities who rest in the five parts of the Bornstedter Friedhof . Over 500 well-known personalities have found their final resting place in Bornstedt.

Map of the Bornstedter Friedhof

This includes

A.

• Emil von Albedyll , general of the cavalry, head of the military cabinet of Kaiser Wilhelm I and Kaiser Friedrich III.

B.

• Karl H. Bröhan , entrepreneur, art collector and patron, donor of the collection for the Bröhan Museum in Berlin

E.

• Theodor Echtermeyer , director of the teaching and research institute for horticulture in Berlin-Dahlem

F.

• Erich von Falkenhayn , General of the Infantry, Prussian Minister of War and Chief of the General Staff

G

• Hans-Joachim Giersberg , General Director of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg
• Karl Eduard Goepfart , composer, pianist and conductor, student of Franz Liszt
• Anna von Gottberg , member of the Brandenburg Provincial Brother Council of the Confessing Church

H

• Johann Heinrich Haeberlin , court building officer and architect (including Crown Estate Bornstedt and new building of the Bornstedt Church )
• Klaus von Heimendahl , Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr

J

• Ludwig Justi , Director of the National Gallery Berlin and later General Director of the National Museums in Berlin

K

• Mathilde Countess von Keller , court lady of the last German Empress Auguste Viktoria

M.

• Heinrich Ludwig Manger , royal Prussian building officer (senior court building officer and gardening inspector) and pomologist

N

• Theodor Carl Gustav Nietner , called Theodor II. Nietner , royal court gardener in Potsdam
• Kurt Nietner , royal court gardener, after the monarchy garden inspector in Babelsberg Park

P

• Käthe Pietschker , founder of the Werner-Alfred-Bad , daughter of Werner von Siemens
• Werner Alfred Pietschker , fatally injured aviation pioneer, grandson of Werner von Siemens
• Kurt Freiherr von Plettenberg , resistance fighter from July 20, 1944 , head of the general administration of the formerly ruling Prussian royal family
• Oskar Prince of Prussia, died in 1939 as first lieutenant in the reserve, brother of Wilhelm Karl Prince of Prussia
• Wilhelm Karl Prince of Prussia , Lord Master of the Order of St. John and last deceased grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II .

R.

• Samuel Rösel , landscape painter, drawing teacher to King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys

S.

• Richard Schäfer, managing director of the Aid Association for the Armenians and close collaborator of the theologian, orientalist and human rights activist Johannes Lepsius
• Siegward Sprotte , painter and writer, founder of the Siegward Sprotte Foundation
• Manfred Stolpe , Consistorial President of the Ev. Church in Berlin-Brandenburg - East Area , Prime Minister of the State of Brandenburg, Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Housing

W.

• Wilhelm Wagenführer, grenadier in the regiment of the " Long Guys "

A cenotaph commemorates Major General Henning von Tresckow , the resistance fighter and engine of the military resistance of July 20, 1944 , who was closely connected to Potsdam through his former membership of the 1st Guards Regiment on Foot or 9th Infantry Regiment , and his wife Erika née von Falkenhayn , the daughter of the Minister of War, who was buried in Bornstedt.

Bronze sculpture on the heroes' grove in Bornstedt cemetery

Pictures of tombs (selection)

image	Surname
	Jacob Paul Freiherr von Gundling (1673–1731), at the same time court scholar and involuntary court jester of the Prussian "soldier king" Friedrich Wilhelm I and president of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
	Henri de Catt (1725–1795), private secretary of Frederick II of Prussia known as his reader
	Johann Samuel Sello (1715–1787), royal court gardener
	Emil Sello (1816–1893), Prussian court gardener
	Heinrich Ludwig Manger (1728–1790), Prussian chief building officer and gardening inspector
	Peter Joseph Lenné (1789–1866), General Garden Director of the Royal Prussian Gardens
	Hans Mackowsky (1871–1938) art historian
	Gillis Grafström (1893–1938) Swedish figure skater
	Otto von Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1868–1949) German banker and industrialist
	Ludwig von Reuter (1869–1943) German naval officer, most recently admiral

literature

• Julius Haeckel: History of the Potsdam cemeteries . Communication from the Association for the History of Potsdam, 1937.
• Karlheinz Deisenroth: Märkische burial place in courtly splendor. The Bornstedt cemetery in Potsdam . 2nd Edition. trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2003.

Web links

Commons : Bornstedter Friedhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Sello family cemetery in Potsdam-Bornstedt
• Friends of Bornstedter Friedhof e. V.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ gartenlokal-potsdam.de Private homepage about the tall guys

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 31.4 "  N , 13 ° 1 ′ 43.7"  E