Friedrich Nietzsche | Friedrich Schiller | Friedrich Engels | Carl Friedrich Gauss | Karl Friedrich Schinkel | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Friedrich Hayek | Caspar David Friedrich | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Friedrich Hölderlin | Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle | Friedrich Ebert | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | Friedrich Gulda | Friedrich Rückert | Friedrich Paulus | Johann Friedrich Böttger | Friedrich von Huene | Friedrich List | Friedrich | Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters | Johann Friedrich Blumenbach | Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow | Friedrich Specht | Friedrich Schleiermacher | Friedrich Schlegel | Friedrich Karl Dörner | Friedrich Fröbel | Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué |
Located in the intellectual colony of Dahlem, seat for example of the Free University Berlin, it was founded by the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft (KWG) on the initiative of its first president, the theologian Adolf von Harnack, and of its then chairman, Friedrich Glum.