# Nordfriedhof (Munich)

The Nordfriedhof ("Northern Cemetery"), with 34,000 burial plots, is one of the largest cemeteries in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the suburb of Schwabing-Freimann. It was established by the former community of Schwabing in 1884. It is not to be confused with the Alter Nordfriedhof in Munich, which was set up only a short time previously within the then territory of the city of Munich.
A station on the Munich U-Bahn is also called Nordfriedhof after the cemetery, and the surrounding area is also known locally as "Nordfriedhof" from the station.
The imposing cemetery buildings include a chapel, a mortuary and a burial wall, which was designed between 1896 and 1899 by the municipal architect Hans Grässel. In 1962 a columbarium was added to the north by the architect Eugen Jacoby.
The chapel is described, slightly altered, in Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice, when the sight of it precipitates a foreboding of death in the protagonist.

## Selected burials

* Peter Paul Althaus, poet of Schwabing
* Herb Andress, actor
* Annette von Aretin, first female announcer of Bayerischer Rundfunk
* August Arnold, film producer and director
* Karl Arnold, caricaturist in the journal Simplicissimus
* Philip Arp, actor, cabaret performer, author and theatre director
* Gert Bastian, brigadier-general, symbolic figure of the peace movement
* Fritz Benscher, actor and quiz master
* Otto Bezold, politician
* Franziska Bilek, caricaturist and artist
* Louis Braun, professor and historical painter
* Beppo Brem, folk actor
* Georg Britting, writer
* Christine Buchegger, actress
* Franz von Defregger, artist
* Hans Dölle, legal academic
* Sammy Drechsel, sports reporter and cabaret performer, and his wife Irene Koss, actress and the first television announcer in Germany
* Constanze Engelbrecht, actress
* Oskar Eversbusch, professor of ophthalmology
* Theodore Feucht, painter
* Josef Flossmann, sculptor
* Leonhard Frank, writer
* Hermann Frieb, resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
* Marie Amelie von Godin, writer, supporter of women's rights and Albanologist
* Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth, lawyer
* Klaus Havenstein, cabaret performer and actor
* Johannes Heesters, actor and singer
* Trude Hesterberg (Schönherr), cabaret performer
* Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's official photographer, with his daughter Henriette von Schirach
* Kurt Horwitz, actor, director at the Munich Kammerspiele, director of the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel
* Peter Igelhoff, musician, composer of pop music and jazz
* Günther Kaufmann, actor
* Eduard von Keyserling, writer (grave 25-4-1)
* Kathi Kobus, landlady of the Alter Simpl
* Wolfgang Koeppen, writer
* Oskar Körner, killed during the Munich Putsch, Second Chairman of the NSDAP
* Otto Kurth, actor and director
* Inge Latz, composer and musical healer
* Hermann Lenz, writer
* Ernst Mach, physicist and philosopher
* Ferdinand Marian, actor (grave now removed)
* Georg Marischka, actor and director
* Anton Neuhäusler, Bavarian dialect poet
* Peter Pasetti, actor
* Ludwig Petuel senior and junior, industrialists
* Toni Pfülf, SPD politician
* Bally Prell, performance artist
* Sebastian Osterrieder, sculptor, Krippenwastl
* Theodor von der Pfordten, killed during the Munich Putsch (in family grave)
* Hans Pössenbacher, actor
* Mady Rahl, actress (grave 178-U-66)
* Anton Riemerschmid, founder of the first German business school for girls
* Barbara Rudnik, actress
* Wilhelm von Rümann, sculptor, formerly in the Alten Vereins-Urnenhalle (urn now secured)
* Beatrix, Countess of Schönburg-Glauchau, socialite
* Arnulf Schröder, actor
* Carl-Heinz Schroth, actor
* Oswald Spengler, political philosopher
* Heinz-Günter Stamm, actor, radio and theatre director
* Fedor Stepun, philosopher and sociologist
* Karlheinz Summerer, Roman Catholic chaplain for the Munich Olympics, 1972
* Siegbert Tarrasch, chess player, theoretician and writer
* Paul Troost, architect
* Kurt Weinzierl, actor, cabaret performer and director
* Frederic Vester, biochemist, environmental expert and writer
* Albert Weisgerber, painter
* Annemarie Wendl, actress
* Otto Wernicke, actor (grave now removed)
* Josef Wittmann, church painter
* Karoline Wittmann, painter
* Paul Wittmann, sculptor
* Eduard Zimmermann, journalist and television presenter
* Traudl Junge, secretary to Adolf Hitler, 1942-1945
* A mass grave for 2,099 victims of aerial bombardment during World War II has been converted to form a "grove of honour for air raid victims" (Ehrenhain für Luftkriegsopfer), with a monument by Hans Wimmer.

## Sources

* Gretzschel, M., 1996: Historische Friedhöfe in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Das Reiselexikon. Munich: Callwey ISBN 3-7667-1233-0
* Scheibmayr, E., 1985: Letzte Heimat. Persönlichkeiten in Münchner Friedhöfen 1784–1984 (1st edition). Munich: Edition Scheibmayr Continued by: Wer? Wann? Wo? Persönlichkeiten in Münchner Friedhöfen. (Teil 1/3, Ergänzung zum Grundwerk und Fortschreibung bis 1989). Munich: Edition Scheibmayr 1989 ISBN 3-9802211-1-3 Wer? Wann? Wo? Persönlichkeiten in Münchner Friedhöfen. (Teil 2/3, Ergänzung zum Grundwerk und Fortschreibung bis 1996). Munich: Edition Scheibmayr 1997 ISBN 3-9802211-3-X Wer? Wann? Wo? Persönlichkeiten in Münchner Friedhöfen. (Teil 3/3, Ergänzung zum Grundwerk und Fortschreibung bis 2002). Munich: Edition Scheibmayr 2002 ISBN 3-9802211-4-8