Old Wannsee Cemetery

The state-owned Old Wannsee Cemetery (German: Alter Friedhof Wannsee, also known as Wannsee Cemetery I or Wannsee Cemetery, Friedenstraße) is located in Berlin-Wannsee, at Friedenstraße 8.

Old Wannsee Cemetery
Alter Friedhof Wannsee
Details
Established	October 1846
Location	Friedenstraße 8, Berlin-Wannsee, Germany
Country	Germany
Type	Public
Owned by	State of Berlin

The Old Wannsee Cemetery was consecrated in October 1846. The chapel was originally built in 1886 as a mortuary hall and was later expanded and remodeled by Senior Building Officer Erich Schwiertz, giving it its present form and new purpose. On the southwest side of the cemetery lie soldiers and civilians who died during the Battle of Berlin in April 1945.^[1]

Graves of notable people

(* Honorary grave of the State of Berlin)

• Fritz Ascher (*17 October 1893 – †26 March 1970), painter and poet
• Oskar Begas (*31 July 1828 – †10 November 1883), painter, elder brother of Reinhold Begas
• Lothar Blanvalet (12 August 1910 – †17 January 1979), publisher
• Eberhard Encke (*27 October 1881 – †22 October 1936), sculptor, buried in a family grave together with his father
• Erdmann Encke (*26 January 1843 – †7 July 1896), Imperial court sculptor
• Hans Heinrich Franck (*22 November 1888 – †21 December 1961), chemist (reinterred in 2005 from Pankow III Cemetery)
• Philipp Franck (*9 April 1860 – †13 March 1944), painter, etcher and draughtsman
• Gustav Hartmann (*4 June 1859 – †23 December 1938), “The Iron Gustav”, Berlin cab driver immortalized by a novel by Hans Fallada
• Karl-Günther von Hase (1917–2021), German diplomat and journalist
• Günter Hönow (*21 October 1923 – †25 January 2001), architect
• Avner Werner Less (18 December 1916 – 7 January 1987) and his wife Vera, interrogator of Adolf Eichmann
• Friedrich Minoux (*21 March 1877 – †16 October 1945), industrialist
• Hans Poelzig (*30 April 1869 – †14 June 1936), architect
• Rosemarie Reichwein (*24 July 1904 – †5 August 2002), resistance fighter and educator
• Johannes Sievers (*27 June 1880 – †20 July 1969), senior counsellor in the Foreign Office, art historian, Schinkel researcher
• Erich Waschneck (*29 April 1887 – †22 September 1970), film director

Gallery

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  Family grave of the sculptors Erdmann Encke (father) and Eberhard Encke (son)
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  Honorary grave of the painter Philipp Franck
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  Grave of Gustav Hartmann, the “Iron Gustav”

See also

• List of cemeteries in Berlin

External links

• Wannsee Cemetery, Friedenstraße. District Office Steglitz-Zehlendorf.