Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde

Entrance to the Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde

The Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde is an urban cemetery in Lichterfelde (location Lichterfelde West) in the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf . It is located between Thuner Platz and Platz des 4. Juli .

history

In order to create more burial options when the demand increased, the municipal council of Groß Lichterfelde decided in 1905 to create a large, representative cemetery next to the two village cemeteries ( Lichterfelde and Giesensdorf ) and the first cemetery of the Lichterfelde-West villa colony in Moltkestrasse . A larger area on the southern outskirts of the villa colony was considered. A limited competition among five garden architects led to the winning design by landscape architect Friedrich Bauer . From 1908 to 1911, gardeners laid out the park cemetery according to the design, and the first burial took place on May 17, 1911.

1926–1927 the cemetery was redesigned according to plans by Erwin Barth and in 1938 according to plans by Ernst Petersen .

War victims

War cemetery from World War II

In the cemetery there is a grove of honor for those killed in the First World War . A grieving bronze woman stands between the graves. A total of 64 dead lie here, including those who fell. In the rear part of the cemetery there are three closed enclosures, here the dead are laid out in rows. More war graves are distributed in another grave field . On the grave fields with the victims of the Second World War there is a memorial stone in the middle of the field. A total of 2089 war victims rest here.

Celebrity cemetery

Because of its well-tended grounds and the artistically designed tombs, the Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde soon became a popular burial place in Berlin. After the introduction of free choice of cemetery for all Berliners, it developed into a celebrity cemetery and had to be expanded.

Personalities buried in the cemetery

Funeral of the Reich Post Minister Anton Höfle

Arthur Berson's grave

Grave of Robert Kempner and Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner

Georg Schumann's grave

Arthur Werner's grave

- in alphabetical order -

Karl Abraham (1877–1925), psychoanalyst

Boris Alekin (1904–1942), Russian-German actor

Armand Léon von Ardenne (1848–1919), Prussian lieutenant general and military historian

Paul Ascherson (1834–1913), botanist

Horst Behrend (1913–1979), writer and director of the Vaganten stage

Hans Berckemeyer (1873–1957), mining lawyer

Arthur Berson (1859–1942), balloonist and meteorologist

Rudolf Beyendorff (1876–1947), lawyer, administrative officer and local politician; "The father of Lankwitz "

Peter C. Bloth (1931–2012), Protestant theologian

Agnes Bluhm (1862–1943), doctor, researcher, second doctor in Berlin after studying abroad

Traugott Böhme (1884–1954), head of the Prussian Secret State Archives

Herbert von Bose (1893–1934), senior government councilor and political advisor, victim of the Röhm putsch

Rüdiger vom Bruch (1944–2017), historian

Karl Buhrow (1863–1939), lawyer and local politician, founder of the Steglitz Local History Association, today Steglitz Local History Association

William Campbell of Breadalbane (1863–1944), teacher at the Hauptkadettenanstalt Lichterfelde

Friedrich Christian Correns (1863–1923), entrepreneur

Heinrich Delbrück (1855–1922), lawyer, President of the Imperial Court

Felix Deutsch (1858–1928), industrialist, co-founder of AEG

Drafi Deutscher (1946–2006), musician

Friedrich Karl Otto Dibelius (1880–1967), bishop, honorary citizen of the city of Berlin

Hermann Essig (1878–1918), expressionist playwright

Benedict Friedlaender (1866–1908), sexologist, publicist

Arthur von Gillern (1855–1916), Prussian lieutenant general

Paul Graebner (1871–1933), botanist

Walter de Gruyter (1862–1923), publisher ( Verlag Walter de Gruyter )

Harald Haacke (1924–2004), sculptor

Sebastian Haffner (1907–1999), historian and publicist

Engelbert Hardt (1847–1919), entrepreneur, Privy Councilor of Commerce

Herbert Härtel (1921–2005), Indologist, museum director

Hugo Hergesell (1859–1938), aerologist and meteorologist

Karl-Heinz Hillmann (1938–2007), sociologist, value change researcher

Emil Hundrieser (1846–1911), sculptor

Robert MW Kempner (1899–1993), prosecutor for the Americans during the Nuremberg trials

Robert Johannes Koldewey (1855–1925), architect and archaeologist

Leopold Koppel (1854–1933), Privy Councilor of Commerce

Georg Richard Kruse (1856–1944), writer and composer, founder of the Lessing Museum, which was closed and sold out by the National Socialists.

Gustav Lilienthal (1849–1933), architect

Otto zur Linde (1873–1938), poet

Oscar Loew (1844–1941), chemist, last student of Justus von Liebig

Eduard Meyer (1855–1930), historian and Egyptologist

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876–1925), writer, cultural historian and political philosopher, Dostoevsky editor

Gunnar Möller (1928–2017), actor

Hans Heinrich Müller (1879–1951), architect

Renate Müller (1906–1937), film actress

Josef Nierendorf (1898–1949), art dealer and gallery owner

Meta Nierendorf (1899–1981), bookseller and art dealer

Alexander Oppler (1869–1937), sculptor

Ernst Oppler (1867–1929), portrait and landscape painter

Gunther Plüschow (1886–1931), writer and researcher

Robert Potonié (1889–1974), geologist

Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner (1871–1935), bacteriologist

Max Rubner (1854–1932), medic and hygienist

Hermann Rückwardt (1845–1919), architectural photographer
Paul Scheerbart (1863–1915), writer
Kurt von Schleicher (1882–1934), General and Reich Chancellor
Hildemar Scholz (1928–2012), botanist
Ralf Schüler (1930–2011), architect
Georg Schumann (1866–1952), composer
Martin Sembritzki (1872–1934), politician and Mayor of Steglitz
Ludwig Sternaux (1885–1938), writer
Hans Stichel (1862–1936), Reichsbahn inspector and entomologist; his butterfly collection was taken over by today's Humboldt University
Carl Stumpf (1848–1936), musicologist and philosopher
Hedwig Thöne (1887–1962), educator and politician
Ignaz Urban (1848–1931), botanist
Arthur Werner (1877–1967), first Lord Mayor of Berlin after the Second World War
Bruno Wille (1860–1928), writer and co-founder of the "Freie Volksbühne"
Ludwig Wüllner (1858–1938), actor and singer