The Dahlem Cemetery (, sometimes improperly referred to as Friedhof Dahlem-Dorf), is a

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...

Berlin-Dahlem Dahlem ( or ) 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. It is located between the mansion settlements of Grunewald and ...

. The cemetery was built according to the plans of the

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

s Friedrich and Wilhelm Hennigs.

Notable burials

Ernst Otto Beckmann Ernst Otto Beckmann (July 4, 1853 – July 12, 1923) was a German pharmacist and chemist who is remembered for his invention of the Beckmann differential thermometer and for his discovery of the Beckmann rearrangement. Scientific work Ernst Ot ...

(1853–1923), chemist *

Paul Bildt Paul Hermann Bildt (19 May 1885 – 13 March 1957) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1910 and 1956. He was born in Berlin and died in Zehlendorf, West Berlin. Selected filmography * '' Devil in Silk'' (19 ...

(1885–1957), film actor *

Emil Bohnke Emil Bohnke (11 October 1888 – 11 May 1928) was a German Viola, violist, composer and Conducting, conductor active in Berlin. Life Born in Zduńska Wola near Łódź, Poland, Emil Bohnke was the son of textile manufacturer Ferdinand Bohnke. Fro ...

(1888–1928), violist, composer and conductor * Klaus Croissant (1931–2002), lawyer *

Hermann Diels Hermann Alexander Diels (; 18 May 1848 – 4 June 1922) was a German Classics, classical scholar, who was influential in the area of early Greek philosophy and is known for his standard work ''Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker''. Diels helped to im ...

(1848–1922) * Heinz Drache (1923–2002) *

Wilhelm Fliess Wilhelm Fliess ( ; 24 October 1858 – 13 October 1928) was a German otolaryngologist who practised in Berlin. He developed the pseudoscientific theory of human biorhythms and a possible nasogenital connection that have not been accepted by ...

(1858–1928) * August Gaul (1869–1921) * Waldemar Grzimek (1918–1984) * Clemens Hasse (1908–1959) *

Rudolf Havenstein Rudolf Emil Albert Havenstein (10 March 1857 – 20 November 1923) was a German lawyer and president of the Reichsbank (German central bank) during the hyperinflation of 1921–1923. Havenstein was born in Meseritz (Międzyrzecz), Province of P ...

(1857–1923) *

Bernhard Heiliger Bernhard Heiliger (11 November 1915, Stettin – 25 October 1995, Berlin) was a German artist. He was considered "West Germany's foremost sculptor", and his large public artworks are a prominent presence in many German cities, especially Be ...

(1915–1995) * Fritz Heinemann (1864–1932) * Werner Hinz (1903–1985) *

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. (; 30 August 1852 – 1 March 1911) was a Dutch physical chemistry, physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemistry, theoretical chemist of his time, Van 't Hoff was the first winner of the Nobe ...

(1852–1911), Dutch physical and organic chemist and

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Lucie Höflich Lucie Höflich (born Helene Lucie von Holwede; 20 February 1883 – 9 October 1956) was a German actress, teacher and head of the Staatliche Schauspielschule (State Drama School) in Berlin.

(1883–1956) * Ludwig Knaus (1829–1910) *

Albert von Le Coq Albert von Le Coq (; 8 September 1860 in Berlin, Prussia – 21 April 1930 in Berlin, Weimar Republic) was a Prussian/German brewery owner and wine merchant, who at the age of 40 began to study archaeology.''Schatzjagd an der Seidenstraße.'' A fi ...

(1860–1930) *

Lilli Lehmann Lilli Lehmann (born Elisabeth Maria Lehmann, later Elisabeth Maria Lehmann-Kalisch; 24 November 1848 – 17 May 1929) was a German operatic dramatic coloratura soprano. She was also a voice teacher and animal welfare advocate. Biography The fu ...

(1848–1929), opera singer * Ernst Lindemann (1894–1941), Navy sea captain (

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) *

Friedrich Meinecke Friedrich Meinecke (October 20, 1862 – February 6, 1954) was a German historian with national liberal and antisemitic views who supported the Nazi invasion of Poland. As a representative of an older tradition, he criticized the Nazi regime ...

(1862–1954), historian *

Rotraut Richter Rotraut Richter (15 May 1915 – 1 October 1947) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in the role of Gerda in the 1933 Nazi propaganda film '' Hitlerjunge Quex'', receiving a letter of thanks from Joseph Goebbels along with the rest ...

(1915–1947), actress *

Edgar Speyer Sir Edgar Speyer, 1st Baronet (7 September 1862 – 16 February 1932) was an American-born financier and philanthropist. Barker 2004. He became a British subject in 1892 and was chairman of Speyer Brothers, the British branch of the Speyer fam ...

(1862–1932), financier and philanthropist *

Otto Heinrich Warburg Otto Heinrich Warburg (, ; 8 October 1883 – 1 August 1970) was a German physiologist, medical doctor, and Nobel laureate. He served as an officer in the elite Uhlan (cavalry regiment) during the First World War, and was awarded the Iron Cross ...

(1883–1970), physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate * Rainer Zepperitz (1930–2009) Image:Grab Emil Bohnke.jpg, Emil and Lilli Bohnke Image:Grab Siegfried Borris.jpg,

Siegfried Borris Siegfried Borris (born Siegfried Jakob Boris Zuckermann; 4 November 1906 – 23 August 1987) was a German composer, musicologist and music educator. He became a lecturer at the Musikhochschule Berlin in 1929, but his career was interrupted durin ...

Image:Grab Richard Draemert.jpg, Richard Draemert Image:Lindemann family grave.jpg, Family Lindemann Image:Grab Adolf Martens.jpg, Adolf Martens Image:Grab August Gaul.jpg, August Gaul Image:Grave-Bernhard Heiliger-Friedhof Dahlem.jpg, Bernhard Heiliger Image:Grab Robert Gragger.jpg, Robert Gragger Image:Grab Waldemar Grzimek.jpg, Waldemar Grzimek Image:Warburg-tomb.JPG, Otto Heinrich Warburg

References

Hans-Jürgen Mende Hans-Jürgen Mende (19 May 1945 in Berlin-Kreuzberg – 21 September 2018 in Rostock) was a German historian. He was a lecturer in the history of philosophy at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. After the reunification of Germany (1989/90) he ...

, Debora Paffen: ''Friedhof Dahlem und St.-Annen-Kirchhof – Ein Friedhofsführer.'' Christian Simon Verlag Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2007, .

External links

* {{Cite web, work=Berlin.de, title=Friedhof Dahlem-Dorf – Wissenswertes, url=http://www.berlin.de/ba-steglitz-zehlendorf/verwaltung/nga/friedhof_dahlem_dorf.html, language=German, accessdate=27 March 2012, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729050319/http://www.berlin.de/ba-steglitz-zehlendorf/verwaltung/nga/friedhof_dahlem_dorf.html#, archive-date=2012-07-29, url-status=dead Cemeteries in Berlin Cemeteries established in the 1900s 1908 establishments in Germany