• Source: Westfriedhof (Munich)

The Westfriedhof (West Cemetery) in Munich is situated in the south of the city district of Moosach. The main entrance is at Baldurstraße 28. The cemetery was laid out in 1898; the buildings, by the architect Hans Grässel, were completed in 1902. The Westfriedhof contains over 40,000 grave plots. The monuments in the principal avenue, many of them by the Munich sculptor Heinrich Waderé, are especially imposing.




Graves of notable individuals



Alexandra (stage name of Doris Nefedov) (1942–1969), singer (Zigeunerjunge)
Hans Baur (1897–1993), chief pilot of Adolf Hitler
Ursula Herking (1912–1974), actress and cabaret artist (grave levelled)
Michael Hinz (1939–2008), theatre and film actor
Robert Lembke (1913–1989), journalist and quizmaster
Franz von Lenbach (1836–1904), artist
Rudolf Maison (1854–1904), sculptor
Edmund Nick (1891–1974), composer
Bernile Nienau (1926-1943), Jewish child who became friends with Adolf Hitler on her 7th birthday
Alexander Pfänder (1870–1941), philosopher
Ernst Röhm (1887–1934), Chief of Staff of the SA, in a small family grave
Hans Schuberth (1897–1976), Bundesminister for posts and telecommunications
Hanns Seidel (1901–1961), Minister-President of Bavaria
Princess Soraya (Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari) (1932–2001), former wife of the Shah of Iran
Günther Storck (1938–1993), priest, bishop sede vacante
Wolfgang Unzicker (1925–2006), chess grand master
Max Valier (1895–1930), rocket pioneer, author of science fiction novels
Karl Schmitt-Walter (1900–1985), opera and lieder singer
Ernst Julius Röhm (1887-1934) close friend and early ally of Adolf Hitler, co-founder and leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazi Party's original paramilitary wing
Two graves recall the terror of the period of the Bavarian Soviet Republic. Countess Hella von Westarp (1887–1919; grave 9-6-12), secretary of the Thule Society, was shot in the hostage murders. The other gravestone is known as the "Pals' Grave" (Gesellengrab) and commemorates 22 young men, members of the Roman Catholic St. Joseph's Social Club (Gesellenverein St. Joseph) who in May 1919 were drinking in their local and thus missed the curfew. They were apprehended by a Berlin regiment, who took them for Spartacists. The young men were unable to convince their captors otherwise, it was popularly believed because of the difficulties of mutual understanding between Bavarians and Prussians, and all were shot.




Notes and references






Literature


Erich Scheibmayr (self-published, Munich):
Letzte Heimat, 1985
Wer? Wann? Wo? (3 parts), 1989, 1997, 2002




External links



München-Wiki: Der Westfriedhof (in German)
http://friedhof.stadt-muenchen.net: graves of famous people in the Westfriedhof (in German)

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• Ernst Röhm
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• Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary
• Franz von Lenbach
• Max Valier
• Hans Baur
• Alexandra (singer)