SITES & PEOPLE

Melaten Cementary - across the place we will have the performance

Some interesting people buried on Melaten Cementary:


Johannes Theodor Baargeld, Dadaist (Flur 73a) - friend of Hans Arp and Max Ernst

Alfred Nourney, hochstapler from Cologne who survived sinking of Titanic - in his telegrams to his mother he mention Mr. Astor, rich American he is spending his time playing cards on the ship.
Andreas Gottschalk - was a physician and political activist in the emerging labor movement.
Hans Böckler - trade union leader. 
Josef Grohé - one of the founders of Hitler's Nazi party and  Gauleiter (regional party leader) of Cologne-Aachen region, died as a children's Toy company representative in Cologne. 


People spend some time, lived or live in Cologne:
Gunter Wallraf - journalist and activist (see video under)
Jacques Offenbach
Nico (born Christa Päffgen)
Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer
Robert Schmidt - director of the Ford Werke in Cologne during the Third Reich and also afterwards administrating "slave work" there and "cold war" work afterwards
Albert KesselringAdenauer's NATO General and chief military adviser; prior to this well known Nazi general responsible for death of 46,000 Italian civilians, including 7,000 Jews, while Germans were rulling  Italy since 1943.
Jakob Ignaz Hittorff - Cologne born (and buried in Paris, Cimetière de Montmartre) architect who mainly build in Paris, but his legacy could be found in Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud
Josephine Witt - member of activist group FEMEN who made "action" in Cologne Chatedral in 2012, but also another interesting one in Frankfurt
Hermann Bollé - German architect of French origins born in Cologne who made his fame as architect in Croatia.
Bruno Taut - German architect and urban planer who build famous Glass Pavilion in Cologne in 1912-14.

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