Urfeld am Walchensee
Urfeld am Walchensee is a municipality in Kochel am See in Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria, Germany on the northwest shore of Lake Walchensee.[1]
Urfeld am Walchensee
Famous people in Urfeld
(Source:) [2]
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — September 1786†
- Ferdinand Graf von Spork — in the period 1875-1902
- Hans Freiherr von Wolzogen — in the period 1883-1898
- Hermann Rietschel — in the period 1886-1914
- Berthold Kellermann — 1884
- Georg von Vollmar — in the period 1889-1922
- Wolfgang Heine — in the period 1905-1944
- Otto Borngräber — in the period 1905-1928
- Franz Seraph von Pfistermeister — in the period 1909-1912
- Peter Emil Recher — in the period 1913-1948
- Lovis Corinth — in the period 1918-1925
- Paul Kalbeck — 1920
- Arnold Zweig — in August 1923
- Werner Heisenberg — in the period 1939-1976
- Baldur von Schirach‡ ‡ and Henriette von Schirach — in the period 1939-1945
- Colin Ross — April 1945‡
- Günther Lüders — in the period 1954-1975
Lakes Walchensee and Kochelsee
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Notes
- † Geothe went incognito in Urfeld as "Johann Philipp Möller from Leipzig" at the beginning of his first trip to Italy on September 7, 1786.
- ‡ Committed suicide with his wife Elizabeth on 29 April 1945 in the house of Baldur von Schirach.
- ‡ ‡ Schirach and Ross were administrators of the Hitler Youth otherwise known as the Hitlerjugend.