Waldfriedhof Dahlem

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Established 1933 Size 75,407 m² Address 14195 Berlin, Germany		Country Germany No. of graves 40,000 Phone +49 30 902995237

Location Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin Burials Harald Juhnke, Richard von Weizsäcker, Horst Buchholz Similar Friedhof Heerstraße, Städtischer Friedhof III, Dorotheenstadt cemetery, Berlin‑Nikolassee station, Weißensee cemetery

The Waldfriedhof Dahlem (Dahlem forest cemetery) is a cemetery in Berlin, in the district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf on the edge of the Grunewald 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, composers such as Wolfgang Werner Eisbrenner and entertainers like Harald Juhnke, and put it among the so-called "Prominentenfriedhöfe" or celebrity cemeteries.

Honorary graves

The cemetery has 40 Ehrengräber awarded by the city government of Berlin, including:

Gottfried Benn (1886–1956), poet

Heinz Berggruen (1914–2007), art collector

Käthe Dorsch (1890–1957), actress (memorial – buried in Bad Saarow-Pieskow)

Blandine Ebinger (1899–1993), actress and Chansonnière

Wolfgang Werner Eisbrenner (1908–1981), composer and conductor

O.E. Hasse (1903–1978), actor

Helene Jacobs (1906–1993), Resistor

La Jana (1905–1940), dancer and actress

Harald Juhnke (1929–2005), actor and entertainer

Erich Mühsam (1878–1934), author and anarchist, murdered in Oranienburg concentration camp

Rudolf Nelson (1878–1960), composer and theatre director

Heinrich Sahm (1877–1939), mayor of Berlin and administrator of Free State of Danzig

Walther Schreiber (1884–1958), mayor of Berlin

Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld (1902–1944), resistor

Theodor Wiegand (1864–1936), archaeologist

Johannes Würtz (1875–1958), founder of the Behindertenpädagogik

References

Waldfriedhof Dahlem Wikipedia

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