Flashcards: Burials in Berlin by place

Martin Sigismund Eduard von Simson (November 10, 1810 – May 2, 1899) was a German jurist and distinguished liberal politician of the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire, who served as President of the Frankfurt Parliament as well as the first President of the German Parliament and of the Imperial Court.

Markus Herz (also Marcus Herz; January 17, 1747 – January 19, 1803) was a German Jewish physician and lecturer on philosophy.

Oskar Pastior (20 October 1927 – 4 October 2006) was a Romanian-born German poet and translator.

Herbert Norkus (26 July 1916 – 24 January 1932, in Berlin) was a Hitler Youth member who was murdered by German Communists.

Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted.

Lorenz Adlon (German: [ˈaːdlɔn]; 29 May 1849 – 7 April 1921) was a German caterer, gastronomer and hotelier.

Emil Moritz Rathenau (11 December 1838 – 20 June 1915) was a German entrepreneur and industrialist, a leading figure in the early European electrical industry.

Julius Wilhelm Martin Kaftan (30 September 1848 in Loit, North Schleswig – 27 August 1926, Berlin-Steglitz) was a German Protestant theologian.

Carl Heinrich Graun (7 May 1704 – 8 August 1759) was a German composer and tenor singer.

David Gilly (7 January 1748 – 5 May 1808) was a German architect and architecture-tutor in Prussia, known as the father of the architect Friedrich Gilly.

Franz Skarbina (24 February 1849 - 18 May 1910) was a German impressionist painter, draftsman, etcher and illustrator.

Alfred Bengsch (September 10, 1921 – December 13, 1979) was a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Wilhelm von Bode (10 December 1845 – 1 March 1929) was a German art historian and curator.

Marie Seebach (24 February 1829 – 3 August 1897) was a German actress.

Werner Seelenbinder (2 August 1904 – 24 October 1944) was a German communist and wrestler.

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (22 November 1710 – 1 July 1784), the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer and performer.

Dmytro Vitovsky (Ukrainian: Дмитро Вітовський) (8 November 1887, Medukha, Stanislau powiat, Galicia and Lodomeria, Austro-Hungary – 8 July 1919, Racibórz, Silesia, Germany) was a Ukrainian politician and military leader.

Arthur Ernest Ewert (1890-1959) was a German communist political activist and functionary of the Communist International (Comintern).

Franz Heinrich Schwechten (12 August 1841 – 11 August 1924) was one of the most famous German architects of his time, and contributed to the development of historicist architecture.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Busch (January 22, 1900 – June 8, 1980) was a German singer and actor.

Otto Brahm (born Otto Abrahamson on 5 February 1856 in Hamburg; died 28 November 1912 in Berlin) was a German drama and literary critic, theatre manager and director.

Max Walter Gülstorff (23 March 1882 – 6 February 1947) was a German actor and stage director.

Alfred Willi Rudi Dutschke (March 7, 1940 – December 24, 1979) was the most prominent spokesperson of the German student movement of the 1960s.

Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847), later Fanny [Cäcilie] Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer.

Bernhard Hans Henry Scharoun (20 September 1893 – 25 November 1972) was a German architect best known for designing the Berlin Philharmonic concert hall and the Schminke House in Löbau, Saxony.

(Carl Heinrich) Eduard Knoblauch (born September 25, 1801, in Berlin; d. May 29, 1865, in Berlin) was a German architect.

August Friedrich Wilhelm Orth (25 July 1828 – 11 May 1901) was a German architect.

Wolfgang Harich (3 December 1923 – 15 March 1995) was a philosopher and journalist in East Germany.

Karl Immanuel Nitzsch (September 21, 1787, Borna – August 21, 1868, Berlin), was a German Lutheran church leader.

August Detlev Christian Twesten (born in Glückstadt, April 11, 1789; died in Berlin, January 8, 1876) was a Lutheran theologian of Germany.

Gustav Heinrich Eberlein (14 July 1847, Spiekershausen (near Staufenberg) - 5 February 1926, Berlin) was a German sculptor, painter and writer.

Friedrich Drake (June 23, 1805, Pyrmont – April 6, 1882, Berlin) was a German sculptor, best known for his huge memorial statues.

Karl Viktor Müllenhoff (born September 8, 1818, in Marne, Duchy of Holstein; died February 19, 1884, in Berlin) was a German philologist and a student of Germanic antiquities.

Valeska Gert (11 January 1892 – circa 16 March 1978) was a German Jewish dancer and cabaret artist.

Karl Twesten (born in Kiel, April 22, 1820; died in Berlin, October 14, 1870) was a German politician and author.

Johann Konrad Maria Augustin Felix, Graf von Preysing Lichtenegg-Moos (30 August 1880 – 21 December 1950) was a German prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.