Nordfriedhof

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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.

- 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

- Franziska Bilek, caricaturist and artist

- Louis Braun, professor and historical painter

- Sammy Drechsel, sports reporter and cabaret performer, and his wife Irene Koss, actress and the first television announcer in Germany

- Oskar Eversbusch, professor of ophthalmology

- 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

- 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

- Eduard von Keyserling, writer (grave 25–4–1)

- Kathi Kobus, landlady of the Alter Simpl