Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf

The Woodland Cemetery is located in Berlin's Zehlendorf district Nikolasee of the borough of Steglitz -Zehlendorf at the Potsdamer Chaussee 75-77 Wasgensteig corner. The northern part of the cemetery was built 1946-1947 by Herta Hammersbacher, another expansion occurred 1948-1954 by Max Dietrich. As the Forest Cemetery Dahlem also applies this cemetery as a celebrity graveyard, since a number of more or less important people of Berlin were buried.

Shaping

The forest cemetery occupies an area of ​​376 975 m². One-third were When investing approximately integrated by Chasing the neighboring Forst in the area retained its character and was forest thinned out only for the new purpose. The tree population consists mainly of pines, added few oaks, rowan and birch.

The principal axes form two paths in north-south direction, between which with curved paths extend the remaining paths of the cemetery in a loose rectangle pattern. The celebration halls are situated on a natural hill, and there is a U-shaped scale and open to the east meadow, which was originally created as a heath between this hill and the entrance to the Wasgensteig. The graves are laid out as a series of tombs and are both in the meadows as well as in the forest section of the cemetery.

1953 also an Italian war cemetery was created, which is stood by trees and thus structurally separated from the rest of the cemetery. In this can be found on a lawn regularly arranged grave plates.

Chapel and outbuildings

On a natural hill above are the celebration halls of the cemetery, which were built in the years 1956-1958 by Sergius Ruegenberg and Wolf von Möllendorff. It is a larger and a smaller celebration hall, which are interconnected by several low outbuildings. The front of the hall is covered by two free-standing, travertinverkleidete walls with an intervening entrance, behind it is a flat collection room. In the halls themselves are reinforced concrete structures in a frame construction with brick infill as. The faces of the halls are covered with dark sheet and consist partly of glass surfaces. The backs are largely glazed and framed by steel frame.

In addition to these main buildings exist in the cemetery a number of other buildings. These include built in 1950 by Friedrich Dückerstieg gate at the Potsdamer Chaussee and built by Hans -Joachim axis and Bernhard 1959 Breast gate at Wasgensteig. The gatehouse at the Potsdamer Chaussee also from axis and Breast (1961/1962), while the flower shop (1967/1968) and the gatehouse was built at Wasgensteig (1971/1972) only of Sachse. On the lawn at Potsdamer Chaussee is also located another Glockenbau, the Sergius Ruegenberg and Mollendorff created in 1963.

Tombs of famous personalities

In the forest cemetery Zehlendorf many famous Berlin personalities were buried. The Berlin Senate assumes the costs of care for more than 40 honorary graves.

  • Hans Beirer (1911-1993), opera singer
  • Gerhard Bienert (1898-1986), actor
  • Günther Birkenfeld (1901-1966), writer
  • Boris Blacher * (1903-1975), composer
  • Peter Bloch (1900-1984), politician
  • Peter Bloch, Jr. (1925-1994), art historian and university teacher
  • January Bontjes van Beek (1899-1969), Potter
  • * Willy Brandt (1913-1992), politician, mayor of Berlin, Chancellor
  • Herwig Friedag (1921-2012), journalist and official of the association
  • Fritz Eberhard (1896-1982), journalist, politician
  • Ekkehard Fritsch (1922-1987), actor
  • Max Ernst Paul Fritsch (1892-1965), painter
  • Fritz Genschow (1905-1977), actor, 25 years of Uncle Tobias of the RIAS
  • Tatjana Gsovsky * (1901-1993), ballet dancer
  • Karl Hartung (1908-1967), sculptor
  • Hermann Henselmann (1905-1995), architect
  • Karl -Josef Hering (1929-1998), Berlin Chamber singer, actor and hotelier
  • Martin Held * (1908-1992), actor and voice actor
  • Martin Hirthe (1921-1981), actor and voice actor
  • Wolfgang Holst (1922-2010), former President of Hertha BSC, United restaurateur
  • Helmut Käutner * (1908-1980), director, comedian also
  • Jakob Kaiser * (1888-1961), Minister
  • Gustav Klingelhöfer * (1888-1961), politician
  • Hildegard Knef * (1925-2002), actress
  • Hermine Körner (1878-1960), actress and director
  • Annedore liver * (1904-1968), journalist, politician
  • Julius Leber * (1891-1945), resistance fighters, politicians
  • Ernst Lemmer * (1898-1970), Minister
  • Eva Lissa (1913-1988), actress
  • Paul Lobe * (1875-1967), President of the Reichstag
  • Gerd Martienzen * (1918-1988), actor and voice actor
  • Klaus Miedel (1915-2000), actor and voice actor
  • Wolfgang Menge (1924-2012), writer and journalist
  • Wolfgang Müller (1922-1960), actor, comedian
  • Wolfgang Neuss (1923-1989), actor, comedian ( buried next to Wolfgang Müller)
  • Bruno Paul * (1874-1968), architect
  • Günter Pfitzmann (1924-2003), actor and comedian
  • Erwin Piscator * (1893-1966), Director
  • Gerhart Pohl * (1902-1966), writer
  • Ernst Reuter * (1889-1953), Mayor of Berlin
  • Ernst Ruska (1906-1988), electrical engineer and inventor of the electron microscope
  • Helmut Ruska (1908-1973), physician and pioneer of electron microscopy
  • Ulrich Schamoni (1939-1998), Director
  • * Hans Scharoun (1893-1972), architect
  • Clemens Schmalstich (1880-1960), composer, conductor
  • Wolf Dietrich Schnurre * (1920-1989), writer, illustrator, film and theater critic
  • Gustav " Bubi " Scholz (1930-2000), Boxer ( moved to graveyard highway )
  • Richard Schubert * (1877-1955), a resistance fighter, teacher, elder city of Berlin in 1952
  • * Klaus Schütz (1926-2012), politician, Mayor of Berlin
  • Peter Seum (1949-1998), actor
  • Ruth Stephan (1925-1975), actress
  • Heinz Striek (1918-2011), politician and sports official financial
  • Otto Suhr * (1894-1957), politician, Mayor of Berlin
  • Heinz Trökes (1913-1997), painter
  • Wilhelm way (1936-2012), physician, director of the Robert Koch Institute
  • Wolfgang Zeller (1893-1967), composer
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