Find A Grave - Nordrhein-Westfalen

Abel, Inga b. July 7, 1946 d. May 27, 2000
Actress. A figure on television and in the theatre in Germany, she is best known as a member of the cast of Germany's most popular soap opera "Lindenstrasse".
Nordfriedhof, Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Adenauer, Konrad b. January 5, 1876 d. April 19, 1967
West Germany Chancellor. After serving as Mayor of Cologne, he became the first Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) of the Federal Republic of Germany, serving from 1949 to 1963.
Cause of death: Heart failure
Rhondorfer Waldfriedhof, Rhondorf, Rhein-Sieg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Arndt, Ernst Moritz b. 1769 d. 1860
Author, Editor.
Alter Friedhof, Bonn, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Bachschmidt, Fritz b. September 10, 1928 d. May 8, 1992
Actor. Played 'Gottlieb Griese' in the famous TV-Series "Lindenstrasse." (Bio by: JSesto)
Melatenfriedhof, Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Plot: Plot: 63-150
Bausch, Pina b. July 27, 1940 d. June 30, 2009
German Ballerina and Choreographer. She was known for productions involving innovative staging and somewhat erotic male-female interaction. Raised in western Germany, she enrolled at the Folkwang School in Essen in 1955, and received a scholarship to New York's Juilliard in 1960. After dancing with the New American Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera, she returned to Germany in 1962 to perform with the Folk Ballet of Essen. Thru the 1960s, Bausch was to move gradually into choreography, though...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Evangelischer Friedhof, Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Birgel, Willy b. September 19, 1891 d. December 29, 1973
German actor during the 30s and 40s in both theatre and movies and later in TV. His best known film is probably "...reitet fŸr Deutschland."
Melatenfriedhof, Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Plot: Area D (between V and W)
Boeckler, Hans b. February 26, 1875 d. February 16, 1951
Unionist. After the second world war he contributed to the re-establishment of the German federation of trade unions DGB and was chairman of the board of the metalworking union.
Melatenfriedhof, Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Plot: His stone is shaped like a cog
Breker, Arno b. July 19, 1900 d. February 13, 1991
Sculptor. He was born in Elberfeld, Germany. He became a sculptor after viewing Rodin's 'Age of Bronze' in the Düsseldorf Museum. From 1927 to 1934 he lived in Paris, where he knew Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, Man Ray, Jean Renoir and Alexander Calder. His sculptures of this period include "Aurora," "Sitting Man," "Torso of David," "Man with Flexed Forearms," and "Nude with Crossed Legs." In 1935 he returned to Germany and created works for the Nazi regime. He won a silver medal in the...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Nordfriedhof, Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Brun I. b. May, 925 d. October 11, 965
Archbishop of Cologne. Saint. Duke of Lorraine. He was the youngest son of King Heinrich I. the Fowler and Mathilde von Ringelheim, and brother of Otto I. the Great. He was Ottos chancellor from 940 to 953. He had great political influence upon the emperor. In 953 he became Archbishop and in September of the same year he became Administrator of the duchy of Lorraine. He always stood by his brother and tried to serve both kingdom and church the same way. On May 26, 961 he crowned his nephew Otto...[Read More] (Bio by: Lutetia)
Saint Pantaleon Church, Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Bruning, Heinrich b. November 26, 1885 d. March 30, 1970
German chancellor from March 1930 to May 1932. Held office at a fateful period in history for Germany and the world and subsequently relapsed into obscurity. He entered the Reichstag in 1924, becoming spokesman for the Catholic Centre Party and, in 1929, the party's parliamentary leader. With the breakup of the coalition government under Hermann Muller, Bruning became chancellor. In 1932 he attemptd to secure a prolongation of Pres. Paul Hindenburg's term of office, but Hitler quashed the...[Read More]
Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery), Munster, Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Burauen, Theo 'Döres' b. October 19, 1906 d. October 23, 1987
Mayor of Cologne 1956-1973. He was a member of the SPD (Social Democratic Party) in his youth until the party was outlawed by the Third Reich in 1933. This cost him a regular job, so he worked at various odd jobs until the war broke out, whereupon he was part of an air raid brigade. In 1946 he was elected to the Cologne City Council, and became Mayor of Cologne in 1956. He was also a member of the Nordrhein-Westfalen State Parliament from 1954 to 1966. He was considered by many in Cologne to be...[Read More] (Bio by: Kenneth Gilbert)
Melatenfriedhof, Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Böll, Heinrich b. December 21, 1917 d. July 16, 1985
Author. Winner of Nobel Prize.
Bornheim-Merten cemetery, Bonn, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Charlemagne (der Grosse), Emperor (Karl) b. 742 d. 814
King Charles I ('The Great'), Emperor of Frankenreich (roughly today's Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Northern Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Hungary). He was later sainted.
Cathedral of Aachen, Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Plot: The Shrine of Karl der Große
Dumont-Lindemann, Louise b. 1862 d. 1932
Actress. Founded DŸsseldorf theatre and museum of performing arts. Monument by Ernst Barlach.
Nordfriedhof, Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Farina, Johann Maria b. December 8, 1685 d. November 25, 1766
Inventor of Eu de Cologne Parfum.
Melatenfriedhof, Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Fischer, Anton Hubert b. May 30, 1840 d. July 30, 1912
Roman Catholic Bishop. Born in Julich, he studied in Cologne, and at the University of Bonn and the Academy of Munster. He was ordained priest on September 2, 1863. For twenty-five years he taught religion at the Gymnasium in Essen. He was preconized titular Bishop of Juliopolis, on February 14, 1889, and was thenceforth associated in the administration of the Diocese of Cologne as assistant to the auxiliary Bishop Baudri, then very old. When Baudri died (June 29, 1893), he succeeded him. In...[Read More] (Bio by: Guy Gagnon)
Main Cathedral, Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Frings, Josef b. February 6, 1887 d. December 17, 1978
Roman Catholic Bishop. Though not Colognian by birth, he became very popular in Cologne. Just after the war in the extraordinarily hard and cold winter of 1946 he declared in his New Year's speech that to take coals from the trains or even to steal fuel and food if you could not survive otherwise was not a mortal sin. At once a new word was coined: to "organize" food and coals in postwar Cologne was then called "fringsen".
Main Cathedral, Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Funk, Walther b. August 18, 1890 d. May 31, 1960
Adolf Hitler's personal press agent. In March of 1933, he became State Secretary in Josef Goebbels Propaganda ministery. Goering later named Funk the president of the 'Reichsbank.' In June of 1945, British Troops arrested Funk. At the Nuremberg trials, Funk denied any knowledge of the concentration camps, but it was a fact that he, as president of the 'Reichsbank,' stored all the gold teeth and jewelery that were taken off the imprisoned Jews. He was sentenced to life. On May 16, 1957, he was...[Read More] (Bio by: Demi)
Stoffeler Friedhof, Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Hardin (Hardin), Moondog (Louis) b. May 26, 1916 d. September 8, 1999
American composer and musician, called a visionary by his peers. Born Louis Thomas Hardin in Marysville, Kansas, he was blinded by a blasting cap at age 16, an event which dramatically changed the course of his life. While studying at the Iowa school of the blind he became interested in music and eventually decided to devote his life to it. He traveled for some years, hitch-hiking across the country several times, before settling in New York City in 1943. For the next 30 years he lived there as...[Read More] (Bio by: Dr H)
Münster Central Cemetery, Munster, Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Hartmann, Felix Von b. December 15, 1851 d. November 11, 1919
Roman Catholic Bishop. Archbishop of Cologne and cardinal. Born in Münster, he studied at the Seminary of Münster, then went to the Pontifical Gregorian University, in Rome. He was ordained on December 19, 1874, in Münster. From 1874 to 1911, he took several pastoral charges within the dioces of Münster before being consecrated bishop of that city in October 1911. The year after, on October 29, 1912, he became archbishop of Cologne. Pope Benedict XV created him cardinal on May 25, 1914. In...[Read More] (Bio by: Guy Gagnon)
Main Cathedral, Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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