Falkensee, Germany

Falkensee is a city with around 44,000 inhabitants in the east of the Havelland district. It is a medium-sized center in Brandenburg and has the status of a large district city.

 

Sights

Architectural or cultural monuments

The Falkensee town hall on the former village green was inaugurated in 1918 as the administrative seat by the then mayor Ernst Freimuth. After constant expansion, it has been a listed building since the late 1990s.

 

Churches

The town has the following places of worship:
Evangelical village church in Falkenhagen (corner of Kirchstrasse and Freimuthstrasse) from the 17th century
Evangelical village church in Seegefeld (Bahnhofstraße 51) from the 13th century, structurally extended in 1781
Evangelical village church Finkenkrug (Pfarrer-Voigt-Platz 1) from the beginning of the 20th century
Roman Catholic Church of St. Konrad von Parzham (Tiefer Grund / corner of Ringpromenade), consecrated in 1934, expanded in 2010 to include a community ensemble based on designs by Falkensee architects David and Benjamin Seidl. The parish provided the necessary funds by selling the church's own property in Falkensee and Schönwalde
New Apostolic Church (Slabystraße 10)

Due to the rapid growth of the town of Falkensee, two new churches were built and consecrated after 2000:
2001 Church of the Evangelical Free Church (Scharenbergstraße 1-3), built in 1929, expanded with a new building
2008 Evangelische Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Falkenhöh, housed as a Bartning emergency church in a barrack (Brahmsallee 41) since the end of the Second World War.

 

Historical monuments

War memorials from various wars in Falkenhagen, Seegefeld and Finkenkrug
History park on the site of the former concentration camp subcamp Staaken-Falkensee of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen
Memorial stone for 61 perished forced laborers from several countries at the Kremmen cemetery on Veltener Straße
Monument to the victims of fascism on Rathausplatz on Kurzen Straße
memorial stone German division (1994); On October 3, 1994, a boulder was erected south of Spandauer Straße, exactly on the border line to Spandau, as a reminder of the long years of German division. The boulder, weighing four tons, was designed by the Spandau master stonemason Karlheinz Schafhausen.(♁52° 33′ 16.8″ N, 13° 8′ 49.6″ E)
Memorial plaque and a stumbling block in front of the home of the Jewish poet Gertrud Kolmar on Feuerbachstrasse in the Finkenkrug district, who had to sell her house and was deported from Berlin to Auschwitz, where she died.
List of stumbling blocks in Falkensee

 

Culture

Youth center Creatives Zentrum – Haus am Anger am Dorfanger, it offers educational and artistic courses. Before reunification, the building served as a pioneer house. There is an offshoot in Kantstrasse.
Falkensee Museum and Gallery on Falkenhagener Strasse
City Library has a stock of more than 30,000 media
Kulturhaus Johannes R. Becher
Finkenkrug community center, the Small Theater Falkensee has been playing here since 2010
Historical Park Falkensee
town hall
Between 2016 and 2023 there were two facilities under this name in the town: the old town hall (see picture) and the new town hall, which is also called the twin hall because of its division for cultural and sports use and was inaugurated in April 2016 (address: Scharenbergstraße 15) . Due to the clear structural separation, sports and cultural events can take place at the same time, and due to their connection via the large foyer, the building is also suitable for trade fairs, exhibitions or congresses. A total capacity of up to 1200 seats is available.
The demolition of the old town hall took place in January and February 2023.

 

Regular events

The Falkensee Music Days have been taking place since 1999. Various singing groups or orchestras perform at different locations, such as in the city's churches, in the town hall meeting room or in front of the house on the Anger.
Traveling exhibitions in the museum, e.g. elements - fire, water, earth - formed by Katarina Monien and painted by Bernd Martin
Summer camp of the sports club Eintracht Falkensee e.V., since 2013, football and leisure
In the bookshop at the train station (Chapter 8) there is a regular Falkenseer Poetry Summer, readings and discussions about music and books.
The Falkensee animal shelter organizes a summer festival every year
In 2010, the summer cinema night, an open-air event on the Festwiese am Gutspark, was established.
In addition, several district councilors regularly invite people to their party's summer meetings.

 

Getting in

Regional trains run several times an hour from Falkensee station to Berlin-Spandau and on to Berlin. The journey time from Falkensee to Berlin-Mitte is around 25 minutes. A reopening of the S-Bahn is not yet in sight.

 

Get around

Falkensee is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Transport Association (VBB). Tickets for the Berlin C fare zone are valid.

 

Eat

Edmond`s Literaturcafe Hexenhaus (feasting like in France), Poetenweg 88, 14612 Falkensee. Phone: +49(0)3322 123697.

 

Hotels

Hotel-Restaurant "Kronprinz", Friedrich-Engels-Allee 127. Tel.: +49 (0)3322 3055, fax: +49 (0)3322 200486, e-mail: kronprinz-falkensee@t-online.de. Price: 27 rooms, single room €65, double room €90.
Hotel-Restaurant "Falkensee" (3 stars), Spandauer Straße 6. Tel.: +49(0)3322 25010, fax: (0)3322 250155, e-mail: info@hotel-falkensee.de. Price: 24 single rooms 65 €, double rooms 90 €".
Pension Am See - Lakeside B&B, Seepromenade 26, 14612 Falkensee. Tel.: +49(0)3322 209966. Quiet and cozy accommodation. Single rooms from €20, double rooms from €17 per person/night. Rooms have private shower/toilet, satellite TV, WiFi and options for self-sufficiency. Feature: pension.

 

History

Place name

The name was put together as a made-up word when the community Falkensee was formed in 1923 from the two largest incorporated villages Seegefeld and Falkenhagen: Falken (hagen) see (gefeld). The place name is emphasized on the last syllable: Falkensee. Falkenhagen was (and is) emphasized on the penultimate syllable, Seegefeld on the first. So nothing changed in the pronunciation of the combined place names.

 

Origins

Seegefeld was first mentioned in a document in 1265, and Falkenhagen is noted in a document in 1336. Falkenhagen was hit several times by devastating fires. It burned down completely on April 12, 1676, in 1806 the northern part was destroyed by fire, and in 1822 Falkenhagen again burned down completely except for a few buildings. Thus, the history of the place, recorded on paper and sooner or later burnt, is partly in the dark.

The communities Seegefeld and Falkenhagen belonged to the Havelländischer Kreis in the Mark Brandenburg in the early modern period, and after the Prussian district reform in 1817 then to the Osthavelland district in the Potsdam administrative district of the Brandenburg province. The communities were conveniently located between the seat of the district administration in Nauen and the largest city in the district, Spandau.

The Alte Finkenkrug was built in 1770 and later (up into the 20th century) one of the most popular excursion restaurants west of Berlin. In the early 19th century, a road running through Falkenhagen was built from Spandau to Nauen (today's inner-city street L 201 Spandauer, Falkenhagener and Nauener Straße).

 

Railway and housing developments

On October 15, 1846, the Berlin-Hamburg Railway, which runs straight through what is now the city, was opened. In 1848 a temporary station was built near the village of Seegefeld, which was replaced by a permanent structure in 1860, today's Falkensee station. Finkenkrug station was opened for excursion traffic in 1852, and from 1891 as a regular stop for passenger trains.

The train stations quickly became the growth centers of a suburban development and the villages became interesting settlement areas for colonies of villas and homes. Seegefeld developed through the railway connection to the small town center of today's Falkensee, while the center of the neighboring Falkenhagen remained recognizable more village. The current district of Finkenkrug developed from scratch in the area surrounding the station of the same name.

In 1898 the Deutsche Ansiedlungsbank bought most of the land belonging to the Seegefeld manor and promoted its settlement. This is how today's districts of Neu-Finkenkrug, Neu-Seegefeld and the Waldheim district came into being. In the same year Falkenhain and in 1902 the settlement area Falkenhagener See was added. Around 1920 there was an enormous increase in population, especially from nearby Berlin.

Since 1908 there have been street lighting in the municipalities of today's Falkensee, in 1914 they were connected to the district waterworks in Staaken. The suburban tariff has been in effect on the railway line to Nauen since 1921, and this also had a major influence on settlement development elsewhere on the outskirts of Berlin.

With the Greater Berlin Act, the municipalities became direct neighbors of the Reich capital Berlin on April 1, 1920, to which the previous neighboring municipality of Staaken and the city of Spandau, which had been an independent city since 1887, now belonged.

On April 1, 1923, the previous rural communities of Falkenhagen and Seegefeld were merged to form the new rural community of Falkensee after approval by the Prussian State Ministry. On April 1, 1927, the Seegefeld manor district was dissolved and incorporated, followed by the Damsbrück manor district on October 1, 1928.

 

Period of the nationalsocialism

Shortly after the NSDAP came to power, terror against institutions and representatives of the labor movement began in Falkensee. For example, the clubhouse of the “Fichte” workers' sports club in Nachtigallstrasse was set on fire by an SA storm, and members of the KPD were attacked with firearms by SA men. Local functionaries of the labor movement such as the workers' athlete and local councilor Oskar Sander were arrested, abused and taken to the concentration camp.

 

In 1943, a prisoner camp was built as a satellite camp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the eastern edge of the city (today's memorial on Hamburger Straße). Originally, this facility was laid out in 1938 to accommodate 650 railroad workers before it was rented to the Army Administration in 1939, which expanded the facility further and built a camp for prisoners of war north of Spandauer Strasse. During the National Socialist era, up to 2,500 mostly foreign prisoners were interned there. They performed forced labor in the RAW of the Deutsche Reichsbahn - the later DEMAG-Panzerwerk Albrechtshof (on Seegefelder Weg) - and in the fenced-in barracks camp that was guarded by the SS. Because the prisoners had learned of the murders during the death march from prisoners from the Lieberose subcamp to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, they refused to obey the order to evacuate on April 20, 1945. After the guards had fled, they received the arriving Soviet troops as liberators. In 1945 Falkensee had 32,000 inhabitants, as numerous bombed-out Berliners escaped to the surrounding area. This was the highest population up to that point and for the next 55 years.

 

Post-war period and GDR

After the war ended, Falkensee was right on the border between the Soviet occupation zone and the British sector of Berlin.

After the state of Prussia was dissolved in 1947, the parts of the province of Brandenburg that remained in Germany became the new state of Brandenburg in the Soviet occupation zone, and from 1949 the GDR. With the administrative reform in 1952, the state of Brandenburg and the district of Osthavelland were dissolved and Falkensee part of the district of Nauen in the new district of Potsdam.

In 1951, after decades of planning, Falkensee was connected to the Berlin S-Bahn network.

At the same time, long before the Wall was built, the construction of traffic routes to the western bypass of West Berlin, which made the building of the Wall possible in the first place, began. All three connections (rail, road and waterway) pass directly west of Falkensee.

The first measure was the construction of the Havel Canal from May 1951, which was opened in June 1952 and runs from Hennigsdorf (Nieder Neuendorf) through the Falkensee neighboring communities Brieselang and Wustermark to Ketzin (Paretz) and thus Spandau and Potsdam, but above all West- Bypasses Berlin territory.
In 1953/55, the Berlin outer ring followed in two sections, which connected all the railway lines on GDR territory running towards West Berlin and thus made driving through the western sectors avoidable. Falkensee received its own train station on the outer ring, which was used from 1954 to 1996.
In 1979 the western section (and ring closure) of the Berliner Ring followed, which created a motorway connection from Oranienburg to Potsdam, parallel to the Havel Canal through Brieselang and Wustermark.

The connections to western Berlin, especially in the Spandau district, which were still intensive despite the zone border, were cut with the construction of the Berlin Wall (August 13, 1961). As a result, Falkensee lost its location advantage as a suburb of Berlin and now existed in the "slipstream" of walled-in West Berlin as a community relatively remote from the big cities. The travel time to East Berlin (via Potsdam and Schönefeld or via Hohen Neuendorf and Pankow) was about two hours. The S-Bahn line to Falkensee, which opened exactly ten years earlier, was shut down. After a spectacular breakthrough in the fortification of the border in Albrechtshof station on December 5, 1961, the long-distance tracks of the Hamburg Railway were also cut, and the trains to Hamburg continued via Griebnitzsee (Potsdam), and from 1976 via Staaken on the Lehrter Bahn.

A few weeks after the Wall was built, on October 7, 1961, the twelfth "Republic Day", Falkensee was granted city rights. The award certificate is in the exhibition of the Museum and Gallery Falkensee.

In the same year, West Staaken, which had previously belonged to the Soviet sector of Berlin as an exclave, was incorporated into Falkensee, but in 1971 it was spun off as an independent municipality. The Falkenhagener Wiesen exclave, which had previously belonged to West Berlin (Spandau), came to the GDR and thus to the city of Falkensee in 1988 as part of a territorial exchange.

On the extensive grounds of Berlin-Seegefelder-Industrie AG (BSI), which until 1945 was south of the railway line between what is now the Falkensee and Seegefeld stations, VEB Landmaschinenbau Falkensee / Kombinat Impulsa and the transformer factory worked for over 30 years after the GDR was founded. Today there is a large shopping market in the south industrial area and, in addition to other small and medium-sized companies, a wholesale market.

 

After reunification

After the reunification, Falkensee experienced a second strong increase in population, especially from the western districts of Berlin. In a short time the city doubled its population.

The GDR district of Potsdam became the re-founded state of Brandenburg in 1990 with two others. Due to the district reform in 1993, the districts of Nauen and Rathenow became the new district of Havelland with headquarters in Rathenow. The district seat was chosen to be in Rathenow, far from Berlin, in order to create a counterweight to the population center of the district around Falkensee and Nauen. Since then, however, Falkensee has been the largest city in the district.

The former death strip of the GDR border was planted and built, meanwhile it can no longer be seen everywhere. The course of the former wall can now also be followed in Falkensee on the Berlin Wall Cycle Path. After the border security systems had been completely dismantled, a typical barrier element from the above-mentioned section of the wall was re-erected in the courtyard of the local history museum, but not in full.

Since 1992 there has been a memorial with memorials and admonishing works of art on the site of the former prison camp, some of which were created together by young people from Falkensee and the Israeli city of Maʿalot-Tarshiha (there has been a youth exchange between both cities since 1990).

The embassy of Madagascar was reopened in 2003 on a former private property at Falkenhagener See.

By decree of the Brandenburg Minister of the Interior, Falkensee received the status of a town belonging to the Middle District with effect from January 1, 2006.

On May 25, 2009, the city received the title “Place of Diversity” awarded by the federal government.

 

Geography

Falkensee is located on the north-western edge of Berlin in the western area of the Warsaw-Berlin glacial valley and in the natural area of the Zehdenick-Spandau Havel lowlands. In the north, Falkensee borders on Schönwalde, in the west on Brieselang, in the south on Dallgow-Döberitz, which belong to the state of Brandenburg. In the east it borders on the districts of Falkenhagener Feld and Staaken, which belong to Berlin-Spandau.

In the east and south, the development of Falkensee merges seamlessly with that of Berlin-Spandau and Dallgow-Döberitz. The largest body of water, the Falkenhagener See, is in the north of the city. The "Headlight Mountain" (as this elevation has been popularly known since 1945) is located in the north-west of the city and is 16 m high (50 m above sea level). It is a young geomorphological inland dune that arose at the end of the Vistula glaciation.

The population density is rather low compared to Berlin, due to the village buildings with interspersed pastures or meadows in many places, and the large villa plots, often also covered by high forest. Due to the comparatively small urban area, however, Falkensee achieves a population density of almost 1000 inhabitants per square kilometer, which is the third highest value among the 113 Brandenburg cities (behind Wildau and Teltow), 7th place among the 417 cities and municipalities in the state and 280th place among the over 11,000 cities and municipalities in Germany.

 

Religion

In 2011, 7,702 or 19.1% of the residents were Evangelical and 2714 or 6.7% Roman Catholic. 74.1% were non-denominational, belonged to another religious community or gave no information. Despite population growth, as a result of church leaving and deaths, the proportion of evangelical Christians has continued to decline to 7,250 (15.9%), in contrast to that of Catholics, which rose to 3,090 (6.8%) by 2020.

 

Traffic

Road traffic

The Bundesstraße 5, Berlin's most important arterial road in a westerly direction (Heerstraße), runs like a motorway to the south past Falkensee through Dallgow-Döberitz, the A 10 motorway (Berliner Ring) through the western neighboring communities of Brieselang and Wustermark. Falkensee is accessed via the Seeburg/Falkensee, Dallgow/Falkensee and Dallgow-Döberitz junctions on the B5 expressway, as well as Falkensee, Brieselang and Berlin-Spandau on the A10.

Three Brandenburg state roads run through Falkensee:
the L 20 from Birkenwerder and Velten in the direction of Potsdam
the L 201 along the old road from the state border to Berlin-Spandau to Nauen
the L 202, which branches off from the L 201 to the west outside of the development and leads to Brieselang and Wustermark.
Due to the lack of district roads, many inner-city main roads remain under municipal jurisdiction as unclassified municipal roads.

 

City buses

The bus lines in Falkensee are operated by the Havelbus Verkehrsgesellschaft, the X37 line by the BVG. At times of low demand, line taxis are sometimes used at the bus rate. The following lines operate (as of 2021):
X37 Falkensee train station - Falkenhagener Anger - Garden City Falkenhöh - Falkenhagener Feld - Berlin-Spandau train station - Ruhleben underground station
604 Falkensee train station – Havelpark – Potsdam, Jungfernsee campus – Potsdam main station
648 Falkensee train station – Seegefeld – Seegefeld train station
651 Falkensee train station – Falkenhagener Anger – Falkensee, Damsbrück – Schönwalde – (Hennigsdorf)
652 Falkensee train station – Falkenhöh – Falkenhagener Anger – Falkensee train station (circular line)
653 Falkensee station - Falkenhagener Anger - Falkenhain - Finkenkrug station - Finkenkrug - Dallgow-Döberitz station - Havelpark
654 Falkensee train station - Falkenhagener Anger - Finkenkrug - Finkenkrug West
655 Falkensee train station - Dallgow-Döberitz train station - Havelpark
656 Falkensee train station - Falkenhagener Anger - Alter Finkenkrug - Brieselang

 

Rail regional transport

Falkensee is on the Hamburger Bahn, which had a significant impact on urban development. There are four stations on this in the Falkensee area:
Berlin-Albrechtshof, a few meters east of the city limits on Berlin territory. Opened in 1943, 1948-61 border station between East Germany and West Berlin, 1961-93 terminal station for trains from Nauen, reopened in 1995 on an embankment.
Seegefeld, opened in 1996 as Seegefeld-Herlitzwerke.
Falkensee, opened in 1848 as Seegefeld, current name since 1927, 1951-61 terminus of the S-Bahn, 2009 demolition and new construction.
Finkenkrug, opened in 1850/52 for excursion traffic, regular stop since 1891, rebuilt in 2009.

Falkensee train station is served by five regional transport lines:
Regional Express line RE 2 Nauen-Falkensee-Berlin-Spandau-Berlin Stadtbahn-Königs Wusterhausen-Lübben-Cottbus
Regional Express line RE 6 (Prignitz-Express) Wittenberge-Wittstock/Dosse-Neuruppin-Hennigsdorf-Falkensee-Berlin-Spandau-Berlin-Charlottenburg
Regional Express line RE 8 Wismar-Wittenberge-Nauen-Falkensee-Berlin-Spandau-Berlin Stadtbahn-Airport BER
Regional train lines RB 10 and RB 14 Nauen-Falkensee-Berlin-Spandau-Berlin-Jungfernheide-Berlin Hauptbahnhof (low)-Berlin Südkreuz

The two regional train lines also stop at the other stations. For the southern residential areas of Seegefeld and Finkenkrug, the Dallgow-Döberitz train station can also be reached quickly on the Lehrter Bahn. The nearest train station with ICE and IC stops is Berlin-Spandau, which can be reached from all four lines from Falkensee.

After the Berlin Wall was built on August 13, 1961, the city was cut off from traffic to Berlin. Falkensee could only be reached from Berlin via the Berlin outer ring with a stop at Falkenhagen station (in the Waldheim district), which was closed in 1995 and demolished in 2006. The train service from Falkensee and Finkenkrug via the outer ring to Potsdam only worked from 1961 to 1995 with a change at this station.

It was not until May 26, 1995 that the gap in the Berlin-Hamburg long-distance rail link between Albrechtshof and Berlin-Spandau was completed. The section has been electrically operated since May 1997. At first, regional trains took over the traffic, since May 24, 1998, regional express trains have also been running as local trains via Falkensee to downtown Berlin. Some of the trains from the north went via Falkensee to Berlin instead of via the eastern Berlin outer ring, thus ensuring a dense range of trains. Since the opening of the new Berlin Central Station in 2006, these trains have been running from Oranienburg directly to Berlin and no longer via Falkensee.

 

Train

Falkensee was part of the Berlin suburban tariff since 1921. Despite many earlier plans, Falkensee was not connected to the Berlin S-Bahn network until August 14, 1951. Almost exactly ten years later, with the construction of the Wall on August 13, 1961, the connection in Albrechtshof was interrupted, and in October the S-Bahn administration discontinued the initially remaining island operation of the S-Bahn to Falkensee.

The restoration of the S-Bahn connection to Berlin, which has been planned since 1990, has so far been postponed because of the disputed transport benefits. According to the standardized assessment, the economic benefit would exceed the costs for an S-Bahn extension from Spandau to Falkensee and the construction of a track that is independent of other railway operations, but the travel times would be longer compared to the regional train with the S-Bahn.

 

Variants discussed include

the construction of the S-Bahn to Nauen, with the discontinuation of the two regional train lines,
S-Bahn to Finkenkrug or Falkensee, with (partly) continued operation of the regional trains,
an express S-Bahn without stopping between Spandau and Westkreuz,
S-Bahn only to Berlin-Albrechtshof, service from Falkensee and Nauen only with regional trains.

Depending on the concept, only around 2,000 passengers per day would be suitable for use. A final decision on the construction of the S-Bahn is not yet in sight, and there is no agreement as to whether, and if so how, the capacity of the Hamburger Bahn should be expanded. A decision by the Falkensee city council, which rejected the construction of the S-Bahn for the above reasons, has now been reversed (as of May 2023).

Areas on the north side of the Hamburger Bahn tracks will be kept free for the construction of S-Bahn tracks.

 

Air traffic

Berlin Brandenburg Airport is located at the opposite end of the Berlin metropolitan area and can be reached from Falkensee with the Airport Express (RB 14) in about 60 minutes.

On the Berliner Ring between the Falkensee junction and the Havelland triangle there is a makeshift airfield for military purposes that can still be used today. The areas intended for parking fighter planes are used for the Wolfslake gas station.

 

Economy and Infrastructure

Resident companies (selection)
The largest company is the logistics center at the Seegefeld train station on the edge of the southern commercial area, which emerged from the Herlitz works, which have been based here since 1995. Otherwise, the Falkensee economy is characterized by many small and medium-sized local supply companies.

 

Education

There are ten public schools in Falkensee:
Adolf Diesterweg Elementary School
G. E. Lessing Elementary School
Erich Kästner Elementary School
Sibling Scholl Elementary School
European School at Gutspark
Am Akazienhof special needs school
Falkensee High School
Comprehensive school "Immanuel Kant" with a high school level
Lise Meitner High School
Vicco-von-Bülow-Gymnasium

 

Media

The local editorial offices of the daily newspaper (MAZ - Der Havelländer) and the Brandenburger Wochenblatt (BraWo) are located in Falkensee. There are also a large number of small advertising papers. The editorial office of the right-wing extremist Compact magazine is also located in the Waldheim district in the home of editor-in-chief Jürgen Elsässer.

 

Sports

In Falkensee, 21 sports clubs are registered in a wide variety of sports.

The oldest sports club is SV Falkensee-Finkenkrug, which was founded in 1913. His football team has been playing in the Brandenburg League since the 2010/11 season.

TSV Falkensee offers a wide range of sports: baby sports, family and leisure sports, health and rehabilitation sports, hockey, wrestling, dancing, gymnastics, cheerleading, acrobatics, athletics, ball and roller sports.

Other local sports clubs are SV Blau-Gelb Falkensee and Eintracht Falkensee, with the latter emerging from a spin-off from SV Blau-Gelb Falkensee.

In 2016, the city of Falkensee received the title Integrative Sports City from the Living City Foundation.

 

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town
Heinz Krüger (1919–1980), photographer and photo reporter
Lutz Köhlert (1927-2012), director, university lecturer
Hermann Lüddecke (born 1938), architect and painter
Klaus Bednarz (1942–2015), journalist
Manfred Koslowski (1942–2008), politician (CDU)
Wolfram Ax (1944–2020), classics scholar
Norbert Rohde (born 1950), author
Klaus Schulze (1952–1972), casualty at the Berlin Wall
Wilfried Schulz (* 1952), theater director
Nils-Peter Skoruppa (born 1953), mathematician
Dan Lucas (actually: Lutz Salzwedel, * 1954), rock singer and guitarist
Dietmar Meyer (* 1954), economist and university lecturer
Ingo Voge (born 1958), bobsleigh athlete
Katarina Witt (born 1965), figure skater

 

Personalities associated with Falkensee

Bruno Borchardt (1859-1939), politician and writer, lived in Falkensee until his death
Felix Jacoby (1876-1959), classical philologist, lived in Finkenkrug for some time
Arthur Ungnad (1879-1947), ancient orientalist, lived in Falkensee
Simeon Nalbandian (1883–1964), painter, lived in Falkensee from 1944
Oskar Sander (1885–1944), municipal councilor in Falkensee, victim of National Socialism
Friedrich Schumann (1893-1921) known as the "mass murderer from Lake Falkenhagen".
Gertrud Kolmar (1894–1943), poet, lived in Finkenkrug
Bernhard Zessin (1900-1983), communist union official and resistance fighter, lived in Falkensee
René Schwachhofer (1904–1970), lived in Falkensee
Kurt Magritz (1909-1992), graphic artist and architect, lived in Falkensee from 1970
Hannjo Hasse (1921–1983), DEFA actor, lived in Falkensee
Vasily Stalin (1921–1962), aviator, son of Stalin, stationed in Falkensee 1945–1947
Karl-Heinz Heimann (1924-2010), sports journalist, grew up in Falkensee
Erhard Stenzel (1925-2021), considered the last living German fighter of the Résistance, lived in Falkensee
Karl-Heinz Jakobs (1929–2015), writer, resident until 1981
Carlos Rasch (1932–2021), science fiction author, lived in Falkensee
Ralf Petersen (1938-2018), pop composer, lived in Falkensee from 1945 to 1962
Norman Ascot (born 1941), singer and music producer (“The Teens”), lives in Falkensee
Monika Gabriel (1943-2007), actress, voice actress, grew up in Falkensee
Jürgen Walter (* 1943), chanson singer, producer, lives in Falkensee
Inge Viett (1944-2022), lived in Falkensee
Luise Horwath (* 1952), painter, lives in Falkensee
Désirée Nick (born 1956), actress, lives in Falkensee
Ursula Nonnemacher (* 1957), politician (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), lives in Falkensee
Heiko Müller (* 1959), mayor of the city since 2007
Frank Röth (* 1959), actor and voice actor, lives in Falkensee
Barbara Richstein (* 1965), politician (CDU), former Brandenburg Minister of Justice, member of the state parliament and chairwoman of the Falkensee City Council
Jörg Heinrich (* 1969), soccer player, worked as a coach at SV Falkensee-Finkenkrug in 2017 and lives in Falkensee
Michael Hartmann (born 1974), soccer player, lives in Falkensee
Sabrina Schepmann (* 1981), Miss Germany 2000, lived in Falkensee
Ronald Rauhe (* 1981), canoeist, Olympic champion 2004, lives in Falkensee