Notable graves

The entrepreneur founded Bremen's Borgward group, whose brands included Borgward, Goliath and Lloyd. Its vehicles helped define Bremen as an automotive centre in the mid-twentieth century.

The music teacher, conductor and composer developed an extensive school music programme with choir and orchestra. He was imprisoned for his opposition work in 1942 and died from the effects of his detention in 1943.

The Bremen writer, who lost his sight at a young age, brought his memories and stories in Low German to a wide readership. Family members wrote down the works he dictated, enabling him to become a successful author later in life.

The lawyer worked in Bremen's harbour and finance administration and served as acting governing mayor in 1944–45. A member of the NSDAP and mounted SA from 1933, he later sat in the Bremen Parliament for the DP/GDP and subsequently in the CDU group.

The landscape architect designed Osterholz Cemetery with Franz Seeck and began implementing the plan in 1910. He later oversaw the development of further Bremen green spaces as the city's director of gardens.

The communist resistance activist was imprisoned for alleged high treason from 1935 to 1945. In 1946 she became health senator, the first woman to serve in a Bremen Senate.