Urfeld am Walchensee is a village in the municipality of
Kochel am See
Kochel am See is a municipality and a town in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria, on the shores of Kochelsee. The municipality consists of the districts Altjoch, Brunnenbach, Ort, Pessenbach, Pfisterberg, Walchensee and Ried.
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in the district of
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. It lies on the northwest shore of
Lake Walchensee.
[Gudelius, Jost: ''Die Jachenau''. Jachenau 2008, , S. 139]
Famous people in Urfeld
(Source:)
[Wimmer, Otto, ''Ahnentafel der Nefenhauser in Urfeld'' auf CD, Pullach (2009)]
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† Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as t ...
— September 1786
*Ferdinand Graf von Spork — in the period 1875–1902
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Hans Freiherr von Wolzogen — in the period 1883–1898
*Hermann Rietschel — in the period 1886–1914
*Berthold Kellermann — 1884
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Georg von Vollmar
Georg Heinrich Ritter (Chevalier) von Vollmar auf Veldheim (March 7, 1850 – June 30, 1922) was a democratic socialist politician from Bavaria.
Biography
Vollmar was born in Munich, and educated in a school attached to a Benedictine monastery at ...
— in the period 1889–1922
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Wolfgang Heine
Wolfgang Heine (3 May 1861 – 9 May 1944) was a German jurist and social democrat politician. Heine was a member of the Imperial parliament and the Weimar National Assembly, he served as Minister President of the Free State of Anhalt and Prus ...
— in the period 1905–1944
*Otto Borngräber — in the period 1905–1928
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Franz Seraph von Pfistermeister
Franz Seraph von Pfistermeister (14 December 1820 – 2 March 1912), was the court secretary and State Council of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Pfistermeister entered history not only in the domain of politics but also in the domain of music, when i ...
— in the period 1909–1912
*Peter Emil Recher — in the period 1913–1948
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Lovis Corinth
Lovis Corinth (21 July 1858 – 17 July 1925) was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism.
Corinth studied in Paris and Munich, joined the Berlin Sec ...
— in the period 1918–1925
*Paul Kalbeck — 1920
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Arnold Zweig
Arnold Zweig (10 November 1887 – 26 November 1968) was a German writer, pacifist and socialist.
He is best known for his six-part cycle on World War I.
Life and work
Zweig was born in Glogau, Prussian Silesia (now Głogów, Poland), the son ...
— in August 1923
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Werner Heisenberg
Werner Karl Heisenberg () (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist and one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics. He published his work in 1925 in a breakthrough paper. In the subsequent serie ...
— in the period 1939–1976
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‡ Colin Ross — April 1945
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‡ ‡ Baldur von Schirach and Henriette von Schirach — in the period 1939–1945
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Günther Lüders
Günther Lüders (5 March 1905 – 1 March 1975) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1934 and 1975. He lived in Urfeld am Walchensee from 1954 until 1975.
Selected filmography
* ''Count Woronzeff'' (1934), as Cousin ...
— in the period 1954–1975
Notes
*† Goethe went incognito in Urfeld as "Johann Philipp Möller from Leipzig" at the beginning of his first trip to Italy on September 7, 1786.
*‡ Committed suicide with his wife Elizabeth on 29 April 1945 in the house of Baldur von Schirach.
*‡ ‡ Schirach and Ross were administrators of the
Hitler Youth
The Hitler Youth (german: Hitlerjugend , often abbreviated as HJ, ) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name ("Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth") in July 1926. ...
otherwise known as the ''Hitlerjugend''.
References
External links
Biography: Baldur von Schirach*
Colin Ross from German Wikipedia
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Villages in Bavaria
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen