Bleibtreustraße
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| Bleibtreustraße in 1900 | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Charlottenburg |
| Created | 19th century |
| Hist. Names | Street 12a of the Department V |
| Connecting roads |
Pestalozzistraße (north) , Sächsische Straße (south) |
| Cross streets |
Kantstrasse , Niebuhrstrasse , Mommsenstrasse , Kurfürstendamm |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 820 meters |
The Bleibtreu Street is a street in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg .
location
Bleibtreustraße starts on Lietzenburger Straße , crosses Kurfürstendamm , Mommsenstraße , Kantstraße and ends at Pestalozzistraße . It is connected to the neighboring Savignyplatz via the Else-Ury-Bogen ; the S-Bahn station of the same name can be reached by elevator from Bleibtreustraße.
Initially, the street was only named Straße 12a in the development plan of Dept. V until it was named after the painter and graphic artist Georg Bleibtreu on August 20, 1897 , who lived in the parallel Knesebeckstraße until his death in October 1892.
Memorial plaques of prominent residents
- Bleibtreustraße 10/11: Mascha Kaléko , poet, lived here between 1936 and 1938. During the Nazi era , she was forced into exile and her books were banned.
- Bleibtreustraße 12: Gotthard Laske , clothing manufacturer, bibliophile and patron, committed suicide in 1936, his wife Nelly Laske was deported to Auschwitz in 1943 and murdered.
- Bleibtreustraße 15: Tilla Durieux , actress, from 1903 at the Reinhardt-Bühnen in Berlin. Emigrated in 1933, returned to Berlin in 1952, lived here from 1966 to 1971.
- Bleibtreustraße 15: Alfred Flechtheim , art dealer, publisher and promoter of modern art; Founder and editor of the magazine Der Cross-Section , lived here between 1923 and 1933. In 1933 he had to emigrate. He died in exile in London .
- Bleibtreustraße 34/35: The first office of the ORT (Organization-Rehabilitation-Training) founded in Petersburg in 1880 , a Jewish professional training facility for the promotion of craft and agriculture among the Jews , was located here since 1921. In 1937, ORT opened its own technical school in Berlin, some of which could still be rescued to England in 1939 .
- Bleibtreustraße 38/39: Nathan Zuntz , founder of aviation medicine , professor of animal physiology , lived here from 1914 to 1919.
- Bleibtreustraße 44: Juan Luria , also Giovanni Luria, actually Johannes Lorie or Johannes Lorié, was deported to the Sobibor extermination camp on May 18, 1943 and murdered on arrival.
Others
The street became famous through a violent confrontation between members of the West Berlin red light district on June 27, 1970. On behalf of the brothel entrepreneur Hans Helmcke , an armed gang led by Klaus Speer attacked competing Iranian pimps at the Bucharest restaurant , killing one of them and injuring three Further. In the style of this shooting, Bleibtreustraße was also known in the Berlin vernacular for a long time as “Pencil Treustraße”.
In 1937, the then lawyer Kurt Georg Kiesinger , who later became Federal Chancellor , moved into an apartment with his wife at Bleibtreustraße 46 .
SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein lived at Bleibtreustraße 4 , who fled to his apartment as a deserter a few days before the end of the Second World War and got drunk. He was arrested there and executed a short time later.
In the Bleibtreustraße 2 a Jewish Quellbad (in 1927 mikveh ) opened. The building no longer exists. There is currently a playground in its place.
A chapter in the novel The Japanese Bag by Adolf Muschg is called “Bleibtreustraße”.
Web links
- Bleibtreustraße. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 14.6 " N , 13 ° 19 ′ 11.4" E