Berlin-Pankow, Friedhof Pankow III

The state-owned Pankow III cemetery was opened in 1905 and, with its expansion in 1943/1944 to 14.4 hectares, is the largest municipal cemetery in the district. The cemetery chapel also dates from the year it was opened. The cemetery contains the following honorary graves - Ernst Busch (1900-1980), singer and actor (e.g. "Kuhle Wampe"), Nazi persecutee - Fritz Cremer (1906-1993), sculptor (including fritz Cremer (1906-1993), sculptor (e.g. for the memorials of the former concentration camps Mauthausen, Ravensbrück, Knittelfeld); a sculpture by Cremer can also be found in the crypt of the Lilienthalstraße site cemetery - Max Lingner (1888-1959), Nazi resistance fighter and painter (e.g. "Building the Republic" in the former House of Ministries) - Paul Nipkow (1860-1950), engineer and inventor of the "electric telescope" - Anton Saefkow (1903-1944), communist Nazi resistance fighter - Johannes Stroux (1886-1954), philologist The Pankow III cemetery also contains the graves of various other personalities: - Max Buldermann (1868-1930), artist and founder of the first trade union artists' association (honorary grave until 2015) - Theo Balden (actually Otto Koehler, 1904-1995), painter and Nazi resistance fighter - Reinhold Burger (1866-1954), inventor (of the thermos flask, among other things)heinrich Burkhardt (1904-1985), painter and graphic artist ostracized by the National Socialists - Heinrich Drake (1903-1994), sculptor - Ruthild Hahne (1910-2001), sculptor and National Socialist resistance fighter - Paul Kuhfuss (1883-1960), painter and draughtsman ostracized by the National Socialists - Will Lammert (1892-1957), sculptor persecuted by the National Socialists (including the group of figures originally intended for the Ravensbrück concentration camp memorial stands in front of the Große Hamburger Straße Jewish cemetery) - Hans Litten (1903-1938), lawyer and Nazi resistance fighter - Oskar Nerlinger (1893-1969), Paul Rosié (1910-1984), graphic artist, illustrator and caricaturist - Kurt Sanderling, CBE (1912-2011), conductor The writer Hans Fallada (1893-1947, "Jeder stirbt für sich allein", "Wolf unter Wölfen") was buried in the Pankow III cemetery. in 1981, he was moved to the old cemetery in Carwitz. 1,374 individual graves are located in the rear part of the cemetery in the grove of honour for the victims of war and tyranny, which was redesigned in 1998; all names are immortalized on 98 plaques. In the 1960s, a memorial grove for victims of fascism was created by the GDR (Martin Bayer, 20.04.2020)