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.