Ohlsdorf Cemetery - Notable Burial Sites

Notable Burial Sites

Part of the cemetery are three plots of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), which were used as burial sites for British Commonwealth and Allied servicemen of both World Wars. There are more than 2473 identified casualties commemorated by the CWGC.

The following notable persons are buried in the cemetery:

Hans Albers, actor (1891–1960)

Wilhelm Amsinck, First mayor of Hamburg (1752–1831)

Wilhelm Cuno, German chancellor (1876–1933)

Gustaf Gründgens, actor (1899–1963)

Gustav Hertz, physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1887–1975)

Heinrich Hertz, physicist (1857–1894)

Michael Jary, composer (1906–1988)

Carlo Karges, songwriter and guitarist (1951–2002)

Christian Graf von Krockow, writer and political scientist (1927–2002)

Richard Kuöhl, sculptor (1880–1961)

Felix von Luckner, navy officer and author (1881–1966)

Domenica Niehoff, prostitute (1945–2009)

Loki Schmidt wife of former chancellor Helmut Schmidt (1919–2010)

Kurt Sieveking, Hamburg first mayor (1897–1986)

James Allen Ward, New Zealand airman and Victoria Cross recipient (1919–1941)

Herbert Weichmann, First mayor of Hamburg (1896–1983)

Lawrence Winters, opera singer (1915–1965)

Carolin Wosnitza, pornographic actress (1987–2011)

Helmut Zacharias, violinist (1920–2002)

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