List of graves of well-known personalities in the main cemetery in Frankfurt
This list names the graves of well-known personalities in the main cemetery in Frankfurt .
A.

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Honorary grave / monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Wolfgang Abendroth | 1906-1985 | Political scientist and legal scholar | I 399 |
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No | ||
Wilhelm Heinrich Ackermann | 1789-1848 | Lützowscher hunter and educator | E 69 |
|
A. Sprückmann | The pedestal bears the words: To bloom again I will be sown the Lord
the harvest goes and collects sheaves to us who died, praise be to God. |
Honorary grave and monument protection |
Franz Adickes | 1890-1912 | Lord Mayor 1890–1912 | II GG 24 |
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Johann Belz | Yes | |
Justinian von Adlerflycht | 1761-1831 | Lawyer, legal historian and politician | A on the wall 277 |
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? | ||
Theodor W. Adorno | 1903-1969 | Philosopher and sociologist | K 119 |
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? | ||
Wilhelm Altheim | 1871-1914 | Painter and etcher | XIV 151/152 urn grove | ? | |||
Alois Alzheimer | 1864-1915 | Psychiatrist, Alzheimer's disease named after him | J on the wall 447a |
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E. Klimsch | Wall stele made of shell limestone
with relief |
Yes |
Alois Ammerschläger | 1913-1995 | Department store owner | A 283 |
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No | ||
Dietrich Andernacht | 1921-1996 | Historian and archivist | No | ||||
Rudi Arndt | 1927-2004 | Lord Mayor 1972–1977 | II 203b |
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Honor grave | ||
Hans von Auerswald | 1792–1848, murdered | Prussian major general and member of the National Assembly | E 243 |
|
A. Sprückmann | Monument to September 18th
fallen officers and soldiers |
Yes |
B.

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Honorary grave / monument protection / object number / yes / no
|
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Eugenie Bandell | 1858-1918 | Flower painter | D 277 |
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Bertha Bagge | 1859-1939 | painter | J 61 |
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? | ||
Karl Ballenberger | 1801-1860 | History painter | F 470 |
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A. Sprückmann | Neo-Gothic holy cane made of red sandstone with triangular gable and finial. | Yes |
Anne Bärenz | 1950-2005 | Jazz musician | V 774 |
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No | ||
Dieter Bartetzko | 1949-2015 | Journalist and architecture critic | D. |
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No | ||
August de Bary | 1874-1954 | Doctor and local politician | D on the wall 111–113 |
|
? | ||
Mathilde Battenberg | 1878-1936 | painter | J 954 |
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? | ||
Albrecht Becker | 1840-1911 | architect | J 120 |
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Albrecht Becker | Becker designed the stone for Helene Becker in 1879 and was buried in the same grave in 1911. | Yes |
Jakob Becker | 1810-1872 | Painter and lithographer | F 143 |
|
? | ||
Karl Becker | 1923-2002 | Doctor and member of the Bundestag | No | ||||
Peter Becker | 1828-1904 | Landscape and genre painter, etcher and lithographer | F 1889 |
|
Gebr. Wagner | Neo-Gothic stele made of shell limestone
with a water hammer as a conclusion. A keel bow is faded in front of him, which is supported by two polygonal pillars. |
Yes |
Wilhelm Amandus Beer | 1837-1907 | painter | C 260 |
|
Gebr. Wagner | Bush-hammered granite stele. The inscription plate and the frame
around the portrait of polished granite. The white marble portrait. |
Yes |
Johann Adam Beil | 1790-1852 | Senator and Councilor, founder of the main cemetery | C7 |
|
Honorary grave and monument protection | ||
Maria Belli-Gontard | 1788-1883 | Writer | Crypt 43 |
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Unknown | Inscription plaque made of white marble with a rounded end.
The bronze relief writing, the frame is lost. |
Yes |
Matthias Beltz | 1945-2002 | cabaret artist | XIII GG 48 |
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? | ||
Willy Berking | 1910-1979 | composer | E on the wall 339a |
|
Previously XXV,
Row 36, grave 4 (cleared, now memorial stone E on the wall, 339a) |
No | |
Bethmann family | Bankers | B on the wall 362 + 400 crypts 1, 2 and 7 |
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Yes | |||
Ernst Beutler | 1885-1960 | Literary scholar | C 214a |
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No | ||
Conrad Binding | 1846-1933 | Founder of the Binding Brewery | F 816-817 |
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Joh. Hössbacher | Aedicula made of yellow sandstone with segmented gable. The inscription plate
made of granite (modern addition). The pedestal fluted, the lower plinth made of red sandstone. |
Yes |
Friedrich Landolin Karl Freiherr von Blittersdorf | 1792-1861 | Baden Foreign Minister and Envoy to the Bundestag | on the wall 106 |
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M. Trondle | Two sarcophagi made of yellow sandstone with desk-shaped lids. | Yes |
Jakob Hermann Bockenheimer | 1837-1908 | surgeon | E on the wall 539a |
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Hartmann | Aedicule with triangular pediment made of polished black granite with two free-standing columns made of reddish granite with capitals
and bases made of bronze. |
Yes |
Fritz Boehle | 1873-1916 | Painter and sculptor | XII 1 |
|
Fritz Boehle and Joh. Hössbacher | Yes | |
Johann Friedrich Böhmer | 1795-1863 | Historian and city archivist, editor of the regesta imperii and the Fontes rerum Germanicarum | A 239 |
|
M. Trondle | Stele with
Stepped gable made of gray marble, the crowning of the cross broken off. The writing area is framed by a round arch and the base is sloping. |
Yes |
Bolongaro-Crevenna | Tobacco dealers and promoters of non-profit organizations based in Frankfurt since 1733 | on the wall 432 |
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A. Sprückmann and Hofmeister | Inscription plaque with a profiled ear frame made of red sandstone. Two crosses made of white marble on pedestals made of the same material, the pedestals made of Belgian granite. A cross out
white marble on a corresponding pedestal and a cross with a white marble pedestal on a red sandstone base. |
Yes | |
Elisabeth Borchers | 1926-2013 | Writer and translator | ? | No | |||
Friedrich Bothe | 1869-1952 | Historian, known for his work on Frankfurt city history | IV 171 | No | |||
Rudolf Christian Böttger | 1806-1881 | Chemist and lecturer at the Physikalischer Verein | J 751a |
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Honor grave | ||
Mile Braach | 1898-1998 | Chronicler and writer | J 727 | No | |||
Otto Brenner | 1907-1972 | Chairman of IG Metall | E 1479b |
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No | ||
Antonie Brentano | 1780-1869 | Daughter of the Austrian Imperial Councilor Johann Melchior Edler von Birkenstock | Crypt 48 |
|
Yes | ||
Franz Brentano | 1765-1844 | Wholesale merchant | Crypt 48 |
|
Yes | ||
Georg Brentano | 1775-1851 | Wholesale merchant | at the wall ? |
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No | ||
Willi Brundert | 1912-1970 | Lord Mayor 1964–1970 | II 204a |
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Honor grave | ||
Adolf von Brüning | 1837-1884 | Founder of Hoechst AG | J on the wall 606-609 |
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Kyllmann and v. Heyden | Monumental tomb made of red granite that towers high above the wall.
The protruding middle part is framed by two pilasters. A triangular gable spans between them and is crowned by a hemisphere. Below the gable the bronze coat of arms with helmet and crest, a lion holding a young oak in its paws. Below, in a semicircular niche, a sarcophagus on two bronze lion paws. |
Yes |
Margarete Buber-Neumann | 1901-1989 | Publicist | F 1908 |
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No | ||
Carl Peter Burnitz | 1824-1886 | Painter and lawyer | E 724 |
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Joh. Hössbacher | Neo-Gothic cross made of polished granite with pedestal and base | Yes |
Rudolf Burnitz | 1789-1849 | architect | G On the wall 516 |
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No | ||
Rudolf Heinrich Burnitz | 1827-1880 | architect | G On the wall 516 |
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No |
C.

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Honorary grave / monument protection / object number / yes / no
|
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Liesel Christ | 1919-1996 | Folk actress | J 296 |
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? | ||
Emil Claar | 1847-1930 | Director of the Municipal Theaters | I 183 |
|
Yes | ||
Hermione Claar-Delia | 1848-1908 | Austrian actress | I 183 |
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Yes | ||
Philipp Otto Cornill | 1824-1907 | Painter, art historian and first director of the historical museum | D 12 |
|
No | ||
Sophie Cossaeus | 1893-1965 | actress | F 1459 |
|
No | ||
Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar | 1786-1845 | Doctor and zoologist, founder of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society | D 244-245 |
|
Yes | ||
Carl Cuno | 1823-1909 | architect | J 1011-1012 |
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No | ||
Hellmuth Cuno | 1867-1951 | architect | J 1011-1012 |
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No |
D.

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Honorary grave / monument protection / object number / yes / no
|
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Hermann Dechent | 1850-1935 | Protestant pastor and church historian | A 282 |
|
Yes | ||
Franz Karl Delavilla | 1884-1967 | Graphic artist and professor at the Städelschule | I 1354 | No | |||
Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann | 1809-1885 | Genre and landscape painter | J 548 |
|
No | ||
Moritz Diesterweg | 1834-1906 | publisher | A 297 |
|
Yes | ||
Fritz Dietz | 1909-1984 | Merchant and promoter of the reconstruction of the old opera | on the wall 410a |
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No | ||
Heinz von Diringshofen | 1900-1967 | Aviation Medicine | No | ||||
Otto Donner from Richter | 1828-1911 | Painter and art historian | E on the wall 387a |
|
Yes |
E.

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Ludwig Edinger | 1855-1918 | Neurologist and brain researcher | II GG 21 |
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No | ||
Anna Edinger | 1863-1929 | Social politician and women's rights activist | II GG 21 |
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No | ||
Tilly Edinger | 1897-1967 | Paleontologist and brain researcher | II GG 21 |
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No | ||
Gustav Embden | 1874-1933 | physiologist | F 1249 | No | |||
Maria Elisabeth Epstein | 1881-1948 | politician | J |
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No | ||
Raphael von Erlanger | 1806-1878 | Politician and banker | C 83-85 |
|
Gustav Kaupert | Neo-Baroque sarcophagus made of white marble on lion paws, decorated with cherubim on the narrow sides. Striking pedestal with a row of pillars in front. | Yes |
August Euler | 1868-1957 | Aviation pioneer, holder of the pilot's license No. 1 and first German aviation minister | IV 120 |
|
Yes | ||
Louis Eysen | 1843-1899 | Impressionist landscape painter | on the wall 555a |
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No |
F.

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Honorary grave / monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Christian Wilhelm by Faber du Faur | 1780-1857 | Lawyer, general and military painter | D 86 |
|
No | ||
Wilhelm Fay | 1911-1980 | Lawyer and politician, mayor of Frankfurt | J 1734a, b, c |
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No | ||
Karl Konstanz Viktor Fellner | 1817-1866 | Last senior mayor of the Free City of Frankfurt | D on the wall 164 |
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No | ||
Anselm von Feuerbach | 1775-1833 | Legal scholar | C on the wall 105 |
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No | ||
Johann Karl von Fichard called "Baur von Eysseneck" | 1773-1829 | Frankfurt patrician and historian | C adMauer 79 |
|
Yes | ||
Karl Flesch | 1853-1915 | Social politician | E 47a |
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No | ||
Heinrich Friedrich Gottlob Flinsch | 1802-1865 | Paper manufacturer | E 105-106 |
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No | ||
Ludwig Maria Florian | 1900-1973 | Politician | XV 1187 | No | |||
Berthold Freudenthal | 1873-1929 | jurist | V 74a | No | |||
Leo Frobenius | 1873-1938 | Africa explorer and ethnologist | C 424 |
|
Yes | ||
Paul Frölich | 1884-1953 | Politician and writer | H 455 | ||||
Rosi Frölich | 1888-1987 | politician | H 455 | ||||
Johann Friedrich Funck | 1804-1857 | writer | F 1261 |
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Yes |
G

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Friedrich Ludwig von Gans | 1833-1920 | Large industrialist, patron and art collector. | IV |
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No | ||
Leo goose | 1843-1935 | Factory owner, honorary citizen | III GG 9 |
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No | ||
Matthias Gelzer | 1886-1974 | historian | K 2620 |
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No | ||
Else Gentner-Fischer | 1883-1943 | Opera singer | II 34 |
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Yes | ||
Robert Gernhardt | 1937-2006 | Writer, poet and illustrator | A 1103 |
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No | ||
Karl Gerold | 1906-1973 | Journalist, publisher of the Frankfurter Rundschau | I. |
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No | ||
Alexander von Gleichen-Sootworm | 1865-1947 | Writer and cultural philosopher, great-grandson of Friedrich Schiller | A on the wall 277 |
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No | ||
Hermann Goepfert | 1926-1982 | Painter and object artist | XIII 361 | No | |||
Georg Goltermann | 1824-1898 | Cellist and composer | D on the wall 153 |
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No | ||
Gontard family | B Crypt 44 |
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No
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Carl Graebe | 1841-1927 | Chemist, discoverer of alizarin | D 75 |
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Yes | ||
Eduard Graef | 1870-1936 | Politician | C 492 |
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Günther Groenhoff | 1908-1932 | Glider pioneer | XIV 219b |
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Carl Stock | Honorary grave and monument protection | |
Anton Gramberg | 1875-1966 | Thermodynamicist | I 651 |
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Family Grunelius , u. a. Joachim Andreas Grunelius | Bankers and donors | B 49–50 crypt 3 |
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Georg Friedrich von Guaita | 1772-1851 | First Catholic Senior Mayor of the Free City of Frankfurt | XIV 219b |
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? | ||
Friedrich von Günderrode | 1786-1862 | Multiple senior mayor of the Free City of Frankfurt | on the wall 73-75 |
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Yes | ||
Ludwig von Günderrode | 1763-1841 | Officer and politician | on the wall 73-75 |
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Yes
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Karl Gutzkow | 1811-1878 | writer | D 272a |
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Yes | ||
Philipp Friedrich Gwinner | 1796-1868 | Lawyer, art historian and senior mayor of the Free City of Frankfurt 1865 | B on the wall 398 |
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Yes | ||
Wilhelm von Gwinner | 1825-1917 | Jurist, theologian and writer, Arthur Schopenhauer's executor | B on the wall 398 a |
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Yes |
H

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
|
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Nicolaus Hadermann | 1805-1871 | Teacher, journalist and politician | G 116 |
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No | ||
Adolf Haeuser | 1857-1938 | Industrialist and founder | II 192 |
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Yes | ||
Ilse and Hanno Hahn | 1922-1960 | Art historian, architectural researcher | D 458 |
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No | ||
Fritz Hallgarten | 1865-1925 | Chemist | II GG 60 |
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Yes | ||
Ferdinand Happ | 1868-1952 | Frankfurt dialect poet | A 159a |
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No | ||
Eduard Ludwig von Harnier | 1800-1868 | Multiple senior mayor of the Free City of Frankfurt | E on the wall 359a |
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No | ||
Eugen Hartmann | 1853-1915 | Entrepreneur, founder of Hartmann & Braun | II 34 |
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No
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Georg Hartmann | 1870-1954 | Factory owner, savior of the Goethe House , honorary citizen | III 26 | No | |||
Hans Hartz | 1943-2002 | song writer | XIV 9 | No | |||
Samuel Friedrich Hassel | 1798-1876 | Frankfurt singer and popular actor | A 24 |
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No | ||
Johann Heinrich Hasselhorst | 1825-1904 | Painter and draftsman | F 1820 |
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No | ||
Eva Heller | 1948-2008 | Author | exact location of the tomb not made public |
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No | ||
Philipp Helfmann | 1843-1909 | Building contractor and founder of Hochtief AG | E 774 |
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No | ||
Walter Hergenhahn | 1904-1980 | painter | E on wall 432a |
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No | ||
Gustav Herold | 1839-1927 | sculptor | XII GG 80a |
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EC clapping | Reclining tombstone made of red sandstone with inscription and an Atlas sculpture | Yes |
Johann Friedrich Christian Hess | 1785-1845 | Architect and town builder 1816–1843, builder of the Paulskirche and the town library | D 457 |
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Honorary grave and monument protection | ||
Friedrich Hessemer | 1800-1860 | architect | F II |
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Yes | ||
Kurt Hessenberg | 1908-1994 | composer | G 540 |
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No | ||
Karl Heussenstamm | 1835-1913 | Local politician, mayor 1880 to 1899 | G 428 |
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No | ||
Carl Heinrich Georg von Heyden | 1793-1866 | Entomologist and senior mayor of the Free City of Frankfurt | D 216 on the wall |
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No | ||
Wilhelm Hill | 1838-1902 | Composer and pianist | E 131 |
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Friedrich Hausmann | Yes | |
Joseph Hoch | 1815-1874 | Lawyer and founder of the Hoch Conservatory | Crypt 39 |
|
No | ||
Heinrich Hoffmann | 1809-1894 | Neurologist, writer ( Struwwelpeter ) | G on the wall 541 |
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Honor grave | ||
Wilhelm Hollbach | 1893-1962 | First Lord Mayor of Frankfurt after the Second World War | I 1118 | No | |||
Adolph von Holzhausen | 1866-1923 | Last member of the Holzhausen patrician family | F on the wall 184 |
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Yes | ||
Anton Ulrich von Holzhausen | 1754-1832 | Last senior mayor of the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt | F on the wall 137 |
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Yes
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Heinrich Holzmann | 1879-1962 | Building contractor | II GG 3 | No | |||
Johann Philipp Holzmann | 1805-1870 | Building contractor and founder of Philipp Holzmann AG | F 568 |
|
No | ||
Philipp Holzmann | 1836-1904 | Building contractor and manager of Philipp Holzmann AG | F. |
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No | ||
Appolonia Hoppe | 1923-1965 | Ringmaster | I 259 |
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No | ||
Franz von Hoven | 1842-1924 | architect | G 332 |
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No | ||
Dore Hoyer | 1911-1967 | Dancer and choreographer | I 775b |
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No | ||
Arthur Huebscher | 1897-1985 | Writer and chairman of the Schopenhauer Society | A 24a (next to Arthur Schopenhauer ) |
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No
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Ricarda Yikes | 1864-1947 | Writer | II 204 |
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Honor grave | ||
Wilhelm Friedrich Hufnagel | 1754-1830 | Protestant theologian and school reformer | C row 12/37 |
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No |
J

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Johannes Janssen | 1829-1891 | Prelate , historian and politician | E 562 |
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No | ||
Wilhelm Jordan | 1819-1904 | Writers and politicians | F 945-946 |
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No | ||
Carl Christian Jügel | 1783-1869 | Bookseller and donor | D242-242a |
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Yes | ||
Botho Jung | 1927-2014 | TV and radio presenter | XII 693 | No | |||
Rudolf Jung | 1859-1922 | Archivist and historian | G 1500 | No |
K

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Heinz-Herbert Karry | 1920–1981 (murdered) | Hessian Minister of Economic Affairs and victim of terrorism | XIV 202 |
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No | ||
Theodor Kestner | 1779-1847 | Stadtphysicus, son of Goethe's childhood friend Charlotte Buff | A 96 | No | |||
Anton Kirchner | 1779-1835 | Protestant pastor, historian and school reformer | D 60 |
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No | ||
Johanna Kirchner | 1889–1944 (executed) | Resistance fighter | I 242 |
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No | ||
Karl Kleist | 1879-1960 | Neurologist and psychiatrist | D 461 |
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Yes
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Heinrich Kleyer | 1853-1932 | Machine builder and manufacturer | II 191 |
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No | ||
Ferdinand Karl Klimsch | 1812-1890 | Lithographer and painter | V 428 | No | |||
Karl Ferdinand Klimsch | 1841-1926 | Lithographer, landscape painter and entrepreneur | V 428 | No | |||
Johann Ludwig Klüber | 1762-1837 | Constitutional lawyer and publicist | B 165 |
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No | ||
Walter Kolb | 1902-1956 | Lord Mayor 1946–1956 | A 55a |
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No | ||
Karl Kotzenberg | 1866-1940 | Merchant and patron | VI 150 |
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No | ||
Friedrich Krebs | 1894-1961 | Lord Mayor during the Nazi era 1933–1945 | XII 646 | No | |||
Georg Ludwig Kriegk | 1805-1878 | historian | E 93 | No | |||
Peter Kurzck | 1943-2013 | writer | F 996 |
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No |
L.

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Ludwig Landmann | 1868-1945 | Lord Mayor | A 290 |
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No | ||
Jakob Latscha | 1849-1912 | Kaufmann, founder of the food retail chain "Latscha" | J 463a |
|
No | ||
Lejeune family | Won B 106-110 |
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No | ||||
Theodor Lerner | 1866-1931 | Journalist and researcher in Svalbard | A 47 |
|
No | ||
Grave of the Barons von Lersner | Frankfurt patrician family | J 475a | No | ||||
Felix Maria Vincenz Andreas Prince von Lichnowsky | 1814–1848 (murdered) | Politician, member of the National Assembly | E 243 |
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monument | ||
Bruno Liebrucks | 1911-1986 | philosopher | IV 207 | No | |||
Alexander Linnemann | 1839-1902 | Architect and glass painter | F 1355-1356 |
|
No | ||
Otto Linnemann | 1876-1961 | Glass painter | F 1355-1356 |
|
No | ||
Rudolf Linnemann | 1874-1916 | architect | II 185 |
|
No | ||
Rose Livingston | 1860-1914 | Patroness and founder | F on the wall 460b |
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Yes | ||
Markus Spoon | 1966-2006 | Techno producer and DJ |
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? | |||
Johann Christian Gustav Lucae | 1814-1885 | Doctor and anatomist | F 677 |
|
Yes | ||
Eugene Lucius | 1834-1903 | Chemist and founder of Hoechst AG | F 2046, 2047 |
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Yes | ||
Johann Albert Lüthi | 1858-1903 | Glass painter and architect | G 535 |
|
No | ||
Carl Luley | 1887-1966 | actor | XIII 618 |
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No |
M.

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Erwin Madelung | 1881-1972 | physicist | A 609 UG |
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No | ||
Charlotte Mahler | 1894-1973 | Surgeon | II GG 31 |
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No | ||
Ernst Majer-Leonhard | 1889-1966 | Director of the Lessing High School from 1926 to 1933 | E. | No | |||
Carl Malß | 1792-1848 | Poet and theater director | A series 94/98 |
|
No | ||
Albert Mangelsdorff | 1928-2005 | Jazz musician | XV 31 |
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No | ||
Friedrich Nicolas Manskopf | 1869-1928 | Wine merchant and founder of the Museum of Music History | D 294 |
|
No | ||
Edwin von Manteuffel | 1809-1885 | Prussian Field Marshal General | Old portal | monument | |||
Ernst May | 1886-1970 | Architect and city planner | A 274 |
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Yes | ||
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Master | 1827-1895 | Industrialist and founder | F on the wall 450 |
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No | ||
Wilhelm von Meister | 1863-1935 | Politician and diplomat | F on the wall 450 |
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No | ||
Cécile Sophie Charlotte Mendelssohn Bartholdy | 1817-1853 | Wife of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy | E 171-173 |
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Yes | ||
Rudolf Menzer | 1904-1991 | Politician, mayor | D 452a |
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Yes | ||
Richard Merton | 1881-1960 | Industrialist, founder and politician, honorary citizen of Frankfurt am Main | II GG 9-12 |
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Yes | ||
Wilhelm Merton | 1848-1916 | Entrepreneur, social politician and philanthropist | II GG 9-12 |
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Yes | ||
Albert Metzler | 1839-1918 | Banker and politician | C 86-88 |
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No | ||
Albert von Metzler | 1898-1989 | banker | C 86-88 |
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No | ||
Barbara von Metzler | 1941-2003 | Patroness | C 86-88 |
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No | ||
Johann Friedrich von Meyer | 1772-1849 | Senator and Mayor, Bible translator and founder of the Frankfurt Bible Society | on the wall D 176 |
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No | ||
Christian Joseph Milani | 1822-1889 | Cafe animal | F617 |
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No | ||
Johannes von Miquel | 1828-1901 | Lord Mayor 1880–1890, honorary citizen of the city of Frankfurt am Main | D 297 |
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Honor grave | ||
Alexander Mitscherlich | 1908-1982 | Social psychologist and writer | J 1049 |
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No | ||
Margarete Mitscherlich | 1917-2012 | Doctor and psychoanalyst | J 1049 |
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No | ||
Ingrun Helgard Möckel | 1912-1992 | Beauty queen | B on the wall 380-81 |
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No | ||
Albert Richard Mohr | 1911-1992 | Music and theater scholar | D 454 |
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Honor grave | ||
Franz Joseph Molitor | 1779-1860 | German writer | F on the wall 255 |
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No | ||
Walter Möller | 1920-1971 | Lord Mayor 1970–1971 | II 202c |
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No | ||
Tycho Mommsen | 1819-1900 | Classical philologist and director of the municipal high school | F 1608 |
|
No | ||
Carl Morgenstern | 1811-1893 | painter | F 864 |
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No | ||
Johann Friedrich Morgenstern | 1777-1844 | Painter and lithographer | A 101 |
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No | ||
Johann Georg Mouson | 1812-1894 | Cosmetics manufacturer | V 163 |
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Honor grave | ||
Karl Friedrich Johann von Müller | 1813-1881 | painter | F 66 |
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No | ||
Victor Mueller | 1830-1871 | painter | G on wall 542a |
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No | ||
Willi Müller | 1895-1967 | Politician | XIV 534a |
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No | ||
Daniel Heinrich Mumm von Schwarzenstein | 1818-1890 | Lord Mayor 1868–1880 | A 84 |
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Honor grave | ||
Ernst Franz August Munzenberger | 1833-1890 | Catholic parish priest and art collector | B 141 |
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No | ||
Carl Friedrich Mylius | 1827-1916 | Photographer | C crypt 24 |
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No | ||
Karl Jonas Mylius | 1839-1883 | Architect, planner of the Vienna Central Cemetery (with his partner Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli ) | C crypt 24 |
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No |
N

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no |
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Josef Neckermann | 1912-1992 | Founder of Neckermann Versand AG | B on the wall 380-81 |
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No | ||
Heinrich Adam Neeb | 1805-1878 | Choirmaster | J 755 |
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No | ||
Christian Ernst Neeff | 1782-1849 | Doctor and founder of the physical association | C on the wall 62 |
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Honorary grave and monument protection
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Ludwig von Neher | 1850-1916 | architect | II GG 69 |
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Monument protection | ||
Sebastian de Neufville | 1790-1849 | Banker and politician | on the wall 214–215 |
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Monument protection |
O

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Albert Oeser | 1878-1959 | Business journalist | A 996 |
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No | ||
Rudolf Oeser | 1858-1926 | Journalist and politician, first general director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn | V 159 |
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No | ||
Karl Oppel | 1816-1903 | writer | F 395-396 |
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No
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Peter of Oubril | 1774-1848 | Russian diplomat | Crypt 13 |
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Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz | No | |
August Oswalt | 1892-1983 | Banker and politician | A 433 |
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No |
P

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Alfons Paquet | 1881-1944 | Journalist and writer | A 276a |
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No
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Marie Paquet-Steinhausen | 1881-1958 | painter | A 276a |
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No
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Johann David Passavant | 1787-1861 | Art historian | F 589 |
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Honor grave | ||
Johann Karl Passavant | 1790-1857 | Doctor and writer | A on the wall 83 |
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No | ||
Theodor Petersen | 1836-1918 | Chemist and alpinist | A 60-61 |
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No | ||
Camille Armand Jules Marie Prince of Polignac | 1832-1913 | Major General of the Army of the Confederate States of America | C crypt 30 |
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Yes |
Q

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Max Quarck | 1860-1930 | Social politician and publicist | E 743 | No
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Meta Quarck hammer blow | 1864-1954 | Local politician and women's rights activist | E 743 | No |
R.

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Gottfried Raestrup | 1889-1955 | Coroner | F. |
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No | ||
Joseph Joachim Raff | 1822-1882 | Swiss composer and music teacher | D 298 |
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No | ||
Walther vom Rath | 1857-1940 | Industrialist | F on the wall 449 |
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No | ||
Heribert Rau | 1813-1876 | Theologian and writer | J 1 |
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No | ||
Ludwig Rehn | 1849-1930 | surgeon | V 143 |
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No | ||
Marcel Reich-Ranicki | 1920-2013 | Literary critic | XIV 34 UG (urn grove) |
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No | ||
Teofila Reich-Ranicki | 1920-2011 | Artist and translator | XIV 34 UG (urn grove) |
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No
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Countess Emilie von Reichenbach-Lessonitz | 1791-1843 | Mistress and later second wife of Elector Wilhelm II of Hesse-Kassel | Mausoleum , Gewann F 1 |
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Friedrich Hessemer | No | |
Carl Theodor Reiffenstein | 1820-1893 | Architecture and landscape painter | G 372 |
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No | ||
Maximilian Reinganum | 1798-1874 | Lawyer, politician and publicist | B 68 |
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No | ||
Ferdinand Ries | 1784-1837 | Composer , student of Beethoven | in the crypt of the Klotz family, No. 45, Gruftenweg |
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Yes | ||
Sebastian Rinz | 1782-1861 | City gardener | C 155 |
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No | ||
Friedrich Ernst Roessler | 1813-1883 | Münzwardein of the Free City of Frankfurt and founder of Degussa | F on the wall 444 |
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No | ||
Fritz Roessler | 1870-1937 | Industrialist and local politician | F 899 |
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No | ||
Hector Roessler | 1842-1915 | Chemist and entrepreneur | F on the wall 444 |
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No | ||
Heinrich Roessler | 1845-1924 | Chemist and entrepreneur | F 899 |
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No | ||
Ljubomir Romansky | 1912-1989 | conductor | F 1468 |
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No | ||
Ludwig Rottenberg | 1864-1932 | Conductor and composer | II GG29 |
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No | ||
Anton Karl Rumpf | 1838-1911 | sculptor | A 104 | No | |||
Friedrich Rumpf | 1795-1867 | Architect and builder | E on the wall 269a |
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No | ||
Peter Philipp Rumpf | 1821-1896 | painter | C 42 |
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No | ||
Eduard Rüppell | 1794-1884 | Africa explorer | F 155a |
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Honor grave |
S.

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Adolf Sabor | 1841-1907 | Teachers and politicians, MdR, SPD | ? | No
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Hermann mustard | 1878-1979 | architect | VII 231a | No | |||
Lutz Sikorski | 1950-2011 | Local politician | D 550 |
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No | ||
Raphael Slidell from Erlanger | 1865-1897 | zoologist | Crypt 18 |
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Yes | ||
Samuel Thomas from Soemmerring | 1755-1830 | Anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor, among other things, of the telegraph | D on the wall 178 |
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Yes | ||
Eduard Souchay | 1800-1872 | Lawyer and politician | C on the wall 64 |
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Yes | ||
Johannes August Speltz | 1823-1893 | Lawyer and politician | C 64 |
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Yes |
Sch

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
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August Schanz | 1871-1935 | Master locksmith, entrepreneur and local politician | K 165 |
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No | ||
Gottfried Scharff | 1782-1855 | Merchant, senator and senior mayor several times | B on the wall 330 |
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Honor grave | ||
Lina von Schauroth | 1874-1970 | sculptor | F 1786 | x |
No | ||
Friedrich Schierholz | 1840-1894 | sculptor | J 634 Plan No. 158, originally on the wall, was moved here in 1955 |
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No | ||
Max von Schillings | 1868-1933 | Composer and conductor | Crypt 48 |
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No | ||
Adolf Schindling | 1887-1963 | Senator and founder of VDO | II GG 27 |
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No | ||
Dorothea Schlegel b. Mendelssohn | 1763-1839 | Writer | B 180 |
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No | ||
Matthias Jacob Schleiden | 1804-1881 | Botanists, recognized the importance of the cell for the organism | J 751b |
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No | ||
Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser | 1780-1851 | Lawyer, Imperial Councilor and writer | D 211 |
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No | ||
Peter Schmick | 1833-1899 | Engineer and architect, builder of numerous bridges (Kaa Brick without Schmick!), Including the Eiserner Steg | on wall 465a |
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No | ||
Alfred Schmidt | 1931-2012 | philosopher | A 15 |
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Honor grave | ||
Pauline Schmidt | 1840-1856 | "Paulinchen" from Struwwelpeter , sister of Moritz Schmidt | C 148 |
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No | ||
Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz | 1797-1869 | sculptor | on the wall 398a |
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No | ||
Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff | 1944-2013 | Art historian | F 1491 |
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No | ||
Moritz Schmidt-Metzler | 1838-1907 | Ear, nose and throat doctor, personal physician Kaiser Friedrich III. and Wilhelm II , brother of Pauline Schmidt | C 90 |
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No | ||
Carl Schmidt-Polex | 1853-1919 | Lawyer and industrialist | D 285 |
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No | ||
Victor forging | 1874-1945 | surgeon | XIV 33 | No | |||
Aloys Schmitt | 1788-1866 | Composer, pianist and music teacher | F on the wall 433 |
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No | ||
Otto Schmöle | 1890-1968 | actor | A 20-21 |
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No | ||
Arthur Moritz Schoenflies | 1853-1928 | mathematician | XIV 403 UG |
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No | ||
Otto Scholderer | 1834-1902 | painter | F 185a | No | |||
Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860 | philosopher | A 24 |
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No | ||
Norbert Schrödl | 1842-1912 | painter | I 531 | No | |||
Felix Schumann | 1854-1879 | Poet, youngest son of Robert and Clara Schumann | J 709 |
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No | ||
Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt | 1901-1986 | First German Federal Minister ( Federal Ministry for Health and Social Security ) | II 268 |
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No | ||
Johann Baptist von Schweitzer | 1833-1875 | Politician and playwright | Crypt 32 |
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No | ||
Richard Schwemer | 1857-1928 | historian | F 1721 |
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No |
St.

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Albert Steigenberger | 1889-1958 | hotelier | IV 125 |
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No | ||
Wilhelm Steinhausen | 1846-1924 | Painter and lithographer | E 577a |
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Yes | ||
Edward von Steinle | 1810-1886 | painter | D 215 |
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No | ||
David stamp | 1869-1927 | Founder of the type foundry D. Stempel and cooperation partner of Linotype | II 220 |
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No | ||
Hilde Steppe | 1947-1999 | Nursing scientist, trade unionist | E 1076 |
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No | ||
Salomon Friedrich Stiebel | 1792-1868 | doctor | E on the wall 415-417 |
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Honor grave | ||
Adolf Stoltze | 1842-1933 | Frankfurt poet, son of Friedrich Stoltze | II GG 23 |
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Honor grave
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Friedrich Stoltze | 1816-1891 | Poet and journalist | J 306 |
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Honor grave | ||
Wilhelm Stricker | 1816-1891 | Doctor, historian and publicist | B 23 |
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Honor grave | ||
Ignatz Stroof | 1838-1920 | Chemist and industrialist | I 212 | No
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Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel | 1886-1944 | General of the infantry and resistance fighter | on the wall 402b (memorial plaque) |
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Honorary grave - cenotaph |
T

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Alfred Teves | 1868-1953 | Entrepreneur / founder of the company Alfred Teves GmbH | II 135 |
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No | ||
Hermann Treuner | 1876-1962 | Painter, sculptor and model maker, creator of the old town model | K 2100 | No | |||
Gustav Treupel | 1867-1926 | Internist | E 720-722 |
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No | ||
Abisag Tüllmann | 1935-1996 | Photographer, photojournalist | F 1763 |
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No |
U

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Siegfried Unseld | 1924-2002 | Publisher, honorary citizen | II 203 |
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Honor grave | ||
Anton Urspruch | 1850-1907 | Composer and pianist | F 1569 |
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Honor grave | ||
Friedrich Philipp Usener | 1773-1867 | Lawyer and politician | E on the wall 305a |
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Honor grave |
V

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
|
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Caroline Valentin | 1855-1923 | Musicologist | F 1287 |
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No
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Veit Valentin | 1842-1900 | Art theorist and educator | F 1287 |
|
No | ||
Adolf Varrentrapp | 1844-1916 | Politician, Mayor of Frankfurt from 1899 to 1906 | A on the wall 144 |
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No | ||
Georg Varrentrapp | 1809-1886 | Medic, councilor | A on the wall 148 |
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Honor grave | ||
Otto Volger | 1822-1897 | Natural scientist, founder of the Free German Hochstift , savior of the Goethe House | J 815 |
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No | ||
Franz Volhard | 1872-1950 | Doctor and university professor | V 311 |
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No |
W.

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Friedrich Karl Waechter | 1937-2005 | cartoonist | J 1066 | No | |||
Walter Wallmann | 1932-2013 | Politician, Lord Mayor 1977–1986 and honorary citizen of Frankfurt | XIV, 32 |
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Honor grave | ||
Andreas Weber | 1832-1901 | Horticultural architect | A 81 |
|
Yes | ||
Beda Weber | 1798-1858 | Catholic parish priest and member of the National Assembly | B 141, 142 |
|
Yes | ||
Arthur von Weinberg | 1860-1943 | Industrialist and patron, honorary citizen | II GG 29, 29a, 30 |
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Honor grave | ||
Marianne von Willemer | 1784-1860 | Beloved Goethe ("Suleika") | D 261 |
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No | ||
Franz Xaver Winterhalter | 1805-1873 | painter | C 123/124 |
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No | ||
Rudolf Winterwerb | 1863-1941 | banker | E 15 |
|
Yes | ||
Johann Georg August Wirth | 1798-1848 | Political writer and member of the National Assembly | A series 98-88 |
|
No | ||
Paul Wolff | 1887-1951 | Doctor and photographer | II GG 17a |
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No | ||
Werner Wunderlich | 1926-2013 | Journalist and radio presenter | A 976 |
|
No |
Z

Names | Lived | job | Won | Image / coordinates | draft | description | Monument protection / object number / yes / no
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Eduard Drag | 1819-1884 | writer | D 228 |
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Honor grave | ||
Julius drag | 1864-1925 | Educator and City Councilor | D 256 |
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Honor grave |