Friedhof II der Sophiengemeinde Berlin
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Cemetery
A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...
of the Sophienkirche
Sophienkirche (Berlin)
The Sophienkirche is a Protestant church in the Spandauer Vorstadt part of the Berlin-Mitte region of Berlin, eastern Germany. One of its associated cemeteries is the Friedhof II der Sophiengemeinde Berlin.-History:...
in Berlin-Mitte, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
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Notable interments
(*) = An EhrengrabEhrengrab
An Ehrengrab is a distinction granted by certain German, Swiss and Austrian cities to one of their citizens for extraordinary services or achievements in their lifetime. If there are no descendants or institutions to care for the gravesite, the communities or cities will take responsibility for...
awarded by the "Landes Berlin"
- Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst BachWilhelm Friedrich Ernst BachWilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach was the eldest son of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach and the only grandson of Johann Sebastian Bach to gain fame as a composer. He was music director to Frederick William II of Prussia...
* (1759-1845), composer, final grandson of Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
, Grablage: IX-5-45/46. - Carl Bechstein* (1826-1900), pianomaker and founder of the famous piano factory, Grablage: IX-1
- Ferdinand August Fischer (1805-1866), sculptor, grave probably levelled
- Rudolf Höffner († 1925), furniture maker, Möbel Höffner, Grablage: I-19/20-23 bis 28
- James Hobrecht (1825-1902), city-planner, author of the Hobrecht-PlanHobrecht-PlanThe Hobrecht-Plan is the binding land-use plan for Berlin in the 19. century. It is named after its main editor James Hobrecht who was serving for the royal-prussian urban planning police . The finalized plan "Bebauungsplan der Umgebungen Berlins" was resolved in 1862 intended for a time frame of...
on sanitation, Grablage: I-V-14/16 (grave probably levelled) - Theodor Hosemann* (1807-1875), genre painter, illustrator and caricaturist, Grablage: VIII-25-35.
- Walter KolloWalter KolloWalter Kollo was a German composer of operettas, Possen mit Gesang, and Singspiele as well as popular songs. He was also a conductor and a music publisher.Kollo was born in Neidenburg, East Prussia...
* (1878-1940), composer of 30 operettas including Drei alte Schachteln, Grablage: IX-1-40+41 - Albert LortzingAlbert LortzingGustav Albert Lortzing was a German composer, actor and singer. He is considered to be the main representative of the German Spieloper, a form similar to the French opéra comique, which grew out of the Singspiel.-Biography:Lortzing was born in Berlin to Johann Gottlieb Lortzing and Charlotte Sophie...
* (1801-1851), opera composer (Zar und ZimmermannZar und ZimmermannZar und Zimmermann is an opera in three acts, music by Albert Lortzing, libretto by the composer after Georg Christian Römer's Der Bürgermeister on Saarlem, oder Die zwei Peter, itself based on a French work entitled Le Bourgesmestre de Sardam, ou Les deux Pierres by Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier...
, Der WildschützDer WildschützDer Wildschütz oder Die Stimme der Natur is a German Komische Oper, or comic opera, in three acts by Albert Lortzing from a libretto by the composer adapted from the comedy Der Rehbock, oder Die schuldlosen Schuldbewussten by August von Kotzebue...
), Grablage: IX-6-46+47. - Ilse Malena († 1939) opera singer and worker for retired musicians' welfare, Grablage: I-21-3 (Grab wohl eingeebnet)
- Carl Mampe († 1899), brewer of spirits and liquors: Mampe Halb und Halb, Grablage: I-1-29
- Emil Riemer (Strohhut-Emil) († 1965), artist and Berliner Original Grablage: I-10-3
- Constantin Starck († 1939), sculptor, grave probably levelled
- Johanna StegenJohanna StegenJohanna Stegen, was a German heroine of the Napoleonic Wars.On 2 April 1813 German troops clashed with Napoleonic troops near Lüneburg...
* verehelicht Hindersin (1793-1842), "the heroine of Lüneburg", medallion by Albert Moritz WolffAlbert Moritz WolffAlbert Moritz Wolff was a German sculptor and medallion-designer....
, Grablage: VIII-5-23+24. - Max StirnerMax StirnerJohann Kaspar Schmidt , better known as Max Stirner , was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary fathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism...
*, actually Johann Caspar Schmidt (1806-1865), philosopher and author: Der Einzige und sein Eigentum, Grablage: V-8-53. - Adolf Streckfuß* († 1895), historian, Grablage: V-4-73
- Hermann Friedrich WaesemannHermann Friedrich WaesemannHermann Friedrich Waesemann was a German architect.He was born in Danzig , the son of an architect. He studied mathematics and science in Bonn from 1830 to 1832, before going to Berlin to study architecture at the Bauakademie...
* (1813-1879), architectArchitectAn architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
, designer of the Berliner Rathauses (the so-called "Rotes Rathaus"), Medaillon by Otto Geyer, Grablage: III-1-18+19. - Adolf ZanderAdolf ZanderAdolf Zander was a 19th century German composer, organist at the Church of St...
(† 1914), royal music-director, Grablage: X-26-22