Waldfriedhof Dahlem
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The Waldfriedhof Dahlem
Dahlem (Berlin)
Dahlem is a locality of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough in southwestern Berlin. Until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was a part of the former borough of Zehlendorf. Dahlem is one of the most affluent parts of the city and home to the main campus of the Free University of Berlin with the...

is a cemetery in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

, in the district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf
Steglitz-Zehlendorf
Steglitz-Zehlendorf is the sixth borough of Berlin, formed in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform by merging the former boroughs of Steglitz and Zehlendorf.-Demographics:...

 on the edge of the Grunewald
Grunewald
Grunewald is a locality within the Berliner borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Famous for the homonymous forest, until 2001 administrative reform it was part of the former district of Wilmersdorf.-Geography:The locality is situated in the western side of the city and is separated from...

 forest at Hüttenweg 47. Densely planted with conifers and designed between 1931 and 1933 after the plans of Albert Brodersen, it is one of Berlin's more recent cemeteries. Its graves include those of writers such as Gottfried Benn
Gottfried Benn
Gottfried Benn was a German essayist, novelist, and expressionist poet. A doctor of medicine, he became an early admirer, and later a critic, of the National Socialist revolution...

, composers such as Wolfgang Werner Eisbrenner and entertainers like Harald Juhnke
Harald Juhnke
Harald Juhnke , actually Harry Heinz Herbert Juhnke, was a well-known German actor, comedian and entertainer.-Life:...

, and put it among the so-called "Prominentenfriedhöfe" or prominent-cemeteries.

Honorary Graves

The cemetery has 40 Ehrengräber
Ehrengrab
An Ehrengrab is a distinction granted by certain German, Swiss and Austrian cities to one of their citizens for extraordinary services or achievements in their lifetime. If there are no descendants or institutions to care for the gravesite, the communities or cities will take responsibility for...

awarded by the city government of Berlin, including:
  • Gottfried Benn
    Gottfried Benn
    Gottfried Benn was a German essayist, novelist, and expressionist poet. A doctor of medicine, he became an early admirer, and later a critic, of the National Socialist revolution...

     (1886–1956), poet
  • Heinz Berggruen
    Heinz Berggruen
    Heinz Berggruen was a German art dealer and collector who founded the Berggruen Museum in Berlin, Germany.-Biography:...

     (1914–2007), art collector
  • Horst Buchholz
    Horst Buchholz
    Horst Werner Buchholz was a German actor, remembered for his part in The Magnificent Seven and Nine Hours to Rama. He appeared in over sixty films during his acting career from 1952–2002.-Life and work:...

     (1933–2003), actor
  • Käthe Dorsch
    Käthe Dorsch
    Käthe Dorsch was a German actress.-External links:*...

     (1890–1957), actress (memorial – buried in Bad Saarow-Pieskow)
  • Blandine Ebinger
    Blandine Ebinger
    Blandine Ebinger was a German actress and chansonniere, the daughter of the pianist Gustav Loeser and the actress Margarete Wezel...

     (1899–1993), actress and Chansonnière
  • Wolfgang Werner Eisbrenner
    Werner Eisbrenner
    Werner Friedrich Emil Eisbrenner was a German composer and conductor, best known for his film music.Eisbrenner studied church music and musical education from 1927 to 1929 at the Berlin Staatlichen Musikademie...

     (1908–1981), composer and conductor
  • O.E. Hasse
    O.E. Hasse
    Otto Eduard Hasse was a German film actor and director.- Biography :Hasse was born to Wilhelm Gustav Eduard Hasse, a blacksmith, and Valeria Hasse in the village of Obersitzko, Province of Posen, Imperial Germany and gained his first stage experiences at highschool at Kolmar together with his...

     (1903–1978), actor
  • Helene Jacobs
    Helene Jacobs
    Helene Jacobs was a member of the Confessing Church and of the German Resistance against National Socialism.- Life :...

     (1906–1993), Resistor
    German Resistance
    The German resistance was the opposition by individuals and groups in Germany to Adolf Hitler or the National Socialist regime between 1933 and 1945. Some of these engaged in active plans to remove Adolf Hitler from power and overthrow his regime...

  • La Jana
    La Jana (actress)
    La Jana was an Austro-German dancer and actress.-Life and career:...

     (1905–1940), dancer and actress
  • Harald Juhnke
    Harald Juhnke
    Harald Juhnke , actually Harry Heinz Herbert Juhnke, was a well-known German actor, comedian and entertainer.-Life:...

     (1929–2005), actor and entertainer
  • Erich Mühsam
    Erich Mühsam
    Erich Mühsam was a German-Jewish anarchist essayist, poet and playwright. He emerged at the end of World War I as one of the leading agitators for a federated Bavarian Soviet Republic....

     (1878–1934), author and anarchist, murdered in Oranienburg concentration camp
    Oranienburg concentration camp
    Oranienburg concentration camp was one of the first detention facilities established by the Nazis when they gained power in 1933. It held the Nazis' political opponents from the Berlin region, mostly members of the Communist Party of Germany and social-democrats, as well as a number of homosexual...

  • Rudolf Nelson
    Rudolf Nelson
    Rudolf Nelson was a German composer of hit songs, film music, operetta and vaudeville, and the founder/director of the Nelson Revue, a significant cabaret troupe on the 1930s Berlin nightlife scene.-Biography:...

     (1878–1960), composer and theatre director
  • Walther Schreiber
    Walther Schreiber
    Walter Schreiber was a German politician and was Mayor of Berlin from 1953 to 1955.He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union Party.-External links:...

     (1884–1958), mayor of Berlin
  • Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld
    Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld
    Ulrich-Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld was a German landowner, officer, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime.- Biography :...

     (1902–1944), resistor
  • Theodor Wiegand
    Theodor Wiegand
    Theodor Wiegand was one of the most famous German archaeologists.Wiegand was born in Bendorf, Rhenish Prussia. He studied at Munich, Berlin, and Freiburg. In 1894 he worked under Wilhelm Dörpfeld at the excavation of the Athenian Acropolis...

     (1864–1936), archaeologist
  • Johannes Würtz
    Hans Würtz
    Hans Würtz, born Johannes Würtz was one of the most influential and controversial figures in German "Krüppelpädagogik" during the Weimar Republic. He is buried at the Waldfriedhof Dahlem in Berlin.-Source:...

     (1875–1958), founder of the Behindertenpädagogik
    Special education
    Special education is the education of students with special needs in a way that addresses the students' individual differences and needs. Ideally, this process involves the individually planned and systematically monitored arrangement of teaching procedures, adapted equipment and materials,...


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