Friedhof II der Sophiengemeinde Berlin

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Phone +49 30 28599815

Address Bergstraße 29, 10115 Berlin, Germany Similar Dorothee Friedhof, Urnenfrie Seestraße, Jüdischer Friedhof Weißensee, Französis Friedhof, Jüdischer Friedhof Schönha

The Friedhof II der Sophiengemeinde Berlin is a Protestant cemetery of the Sophienkirche in Berlin-Mitte, Germany.

Notable interments

(*) = An Ehrengrab awarded by the "Landes Berlin"

Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach* (1759-1845), composer, final grandson of Johann Sebastian Bach, Grablage: IX-5-45/46.

Carl Bechstein* (1826-1900), pianomaker and founder of the famous piano factory, Grablage: IX-1

Ferdinand August Fischer (1805-1866), sculptor, grave probably levelled

Rudolf Höffner († 1925), furniture maker, Möbel Höffner, Grablage: I-19/20-23 bis 28

James Hobrecht (1825-1902), city-planner, author of the Hobrecht-Plan on sanitation, Grablage: I-V-14/16 (grave probably levelled)

Theodor Hosemann* (1807-1875), genre painter, illustrator and caricaturist, Grablage: VIII-25-35.

Walter Kollo* (1878-1940), composer of 30 operettas including Drei alte Schachteln, Grablage: IX-1-40+41

Albert Lortzing* (1801-1851), opera composer (Zar und Zimmermann, Der Wildschütz), Grablage: IX-6-46+47.

Ilse Malena († 1939) opera singer and worker for retired musicians' welfare, Grablage: I-21-3 (Grab wohl eingeebnet)

Caroline Medon (1802–1882), actress then opera singer

Carl Mampe († 1899), brewer of spirits and liquors: Mampe Halb und Halb, Grablage: I-1-29

Emil Riemer (Strohhut-Emil) († 1965), artist and Berliner Original Grablage: I-10-3

Constantin Starck († 1939), sculptor, grave probably levelled

Johanna Stegen* verehelicht Hindersin (1793-1842), "the heroine of Lüneburg", medallion by Albert Moritz Wolff, Grablage: VIII-5-23+24.

Max Stirner*, actually Johann Caspar Schmidt (1806-1865), philosopher and author: Der Einzige und sein Eigentum, Grablage: V-8-53.

Adolf Streckfuß* († 1895), historian, Grablage: V-4-73

Hermann Friedrich Waesemann* (1813-1879), architect, designer of the Berliner Rathauses (the so-called "Rotes Rathaus"), Medaillon by Otto Geyer, Grablage: III-1-18+19.

Adolf Zander († 1914), royal music-director, Grablage: X-26-22

References

Friedhof II der Sophiengemeinde Berlin Wikipedia

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