Wilmersdorf district
Wilmersdorf district 1920–2000 district of Berlin |
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Coordinates | 52 ° 29 ′ 31 ″ N , 13 ° 18 ′ 19 ″ E |
surface | 34.40 km² |
Residents | 140,090 (Dec. 31, 2000) |
Population density | 4072 inhabitants / km² |
Serial number | 9 |
The Wilmersdorf district was an administrative district of Berlin from 1920 to 2000 . It consisted of the three districts of Grunewald , Schmargendorf and Wilmersdorf , whereby today's district of Halensee also belonged to the district of Wilmersdorf . The area of the district has belonged to the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district since January 1, 2001 .
location
The Wilmersdorf district bordered the Charlottenburg district in the north, the Schöneberg district in the east, the Steglitz district in the southeast, the Zehlendorf district in the south and the Spandau district in the west . Today the area of the former district forms the southern part of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district.
history
At the end of the 19th century, the rural community of Deutsch-Wilmersdorf had developed into a densely populated city. On April 1, 1906, the municipality received town charter and on April 1, 1907, Deutsch-Wilmersdorf left the Teltow district and became an independent urban district . After the foundation of the Zweckverband Groß-Berlin in 1912, the official name of the city was Berlin-Wilmersdorf . With the formation of Greater Berlin on October 1, 1920, the 9th Berlin administrative district was formed from the city of Wilmersdorf, the rural communities of Grunewald and Schmargendorf and the estate district of Forst Grunewald . It was named Wilmersdorf after its most populous district .
In 1922, the then Reich Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau fell victim to an assassination attempt by right-wing extremists on Koenigsallee in Grunewald . During the Weimar Republic, the district had a high proportion of Jews in the population, in 1933 it was 13.5%. Between 1927 and 1931 was on the southern edge of the Rheingau district , the artist colony Berlin .
The Lunapark , an amusement park that has existed on Halensee since 1904 , was closed in 1933 and demolished in 1935 for the construction of Halenseestrasse, which in 1936 established a connection to the exhibition grounds at the radio tower .
As a result of the Berlin territorial reform effective April 1, 1938, Wilmersdorf gave up large parts of the Grunewald forest south of Hüttenweg to the Zehlendorf district , while the area north of Pücklerstrasse went to Wilmersdorf, ( Schmargendorf district ). The Grunewald hunting lodge and the Wannsee lido were now part of Dahlem and Nikolassee , respectively . The Eichkamp settlement and the southern part of the exhibition grounds came to the Charlottenburg district. The population of the district increased by 3659 inhabitants, while the district area decreased by 1645 hectares .
During the Second World War , Wilmersdorf was badly hit by air raids . 44% of all homes were destroyed. In the last days of April 1945 the district was captured by the Red Army and from July 1945 the district belonged to the British Sector of Berlin. From 1946, Berlin's largest mountain of rubble, the Teufelsberg, was piled up in the west of the district . The American armed forces set up a large listening station on Teufelsberg. The Wilmersdorf stadium was also built from rubble between 1948 and 1951 .
The first section of the Berlin city motorway was opened in 1958 between the Kurfürstendamm and Hohenzollerndamm junctions . In the 1960s the city motorway was expanded both in the direction of Charlottenburg and in the direction of Schöneberg. A branch of the city motorway, the federal motorway 104 , was led in the direction of Steglitz in the 1970s and built over with the large residential complex Schlangenbader Straße near Wiesbadener Straße . In 1971 the underground line U7 coming from Schöneberg was extended to Fehrbelliner Platz . In 1978 the U7 was continued in the direction of Charlottenburg .
The Wilmersdorf district had the Gleis 17 memorial built at Grunewald train station in 1991 , commemorating the deportation of German Jews , which was carried out from here on from 1941 by Reichsbahn trains to concentration and extermination camps to the east .
On January 1, 2001, the Wilmersdorf district was merged with the Charlottenburg district to form the new Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1925 | 174,884 |
1933 | 196.573 |
1939 | 206.779 |
1946 | 126,615 |
1950 | 141,665 |
1961 | 161.964 |
1970 | 154.397 |
1987 | 139.070 |
2000 | 140.090 |
Elections to the district assembly
Share of votes of the parties in percent:
year | DNVP | DVP | DDP ¹ | SPD | USPD | Zen | KPD | NSDAP |
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1921 | 27.9 | 25.5 | 14.3 | 13.3 | 6.6 | 3.2 | 2.8 | |
1925 | 33.7 | 10.6 | 17.4 | 20.3 | 3.1 | 5.9 | ||
1929 | 28.8 | 13.9 | 12.8 | 18.8 | 4.0 | 7.4 | 8.5 | |
1933 | 20.2 | 1.5 | 6.0 | 18.4 | 5.8 | 6.5 | 41.1 |
1933: DStP
year | SPD | CDU | FDP ¹ | Green ² |
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1946 | 46.5 | 31.3 | 15.9 | |
1948 | 52.8 | 23.3 | 23.9 | |
1950 | 29.8 | 27.5 | 33.8 | |
1954 4 | 30.7 | 36.4 | 19.6 | |
1958 | 40.5 | 47.3 | 5.5 | |
1963 | 50.3 | 37.1 | 11.9 | |
1967 | 45.5 | 42.0 | 9.8 | |
1971 | 40.0 | 46.4 | 10.9 | |
1975 5 | 34.6 | 50.6 | 9.1 | |
1979 | 35.5 | 49.4 | 8.9 | 5.1 |
1981 | 31.3 | 50.7 | 5.8 | 11.0 |
1985 | 26.9 | 50.9 | 5.5 | 14.6 |
1989 | 31.5 | 39.5 | 5.1 | 16.6 |
1992 | 27.1 | 40.5 | 7.0 | 16.3 |
1995 | 24.2 | 45.8 | 3.8 | 20.2 |
1999 | 25.4 | 48.5 | 4.2 | 15.7 |
District Mayor
Period | Surname | Political party |
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1921-1924 | Karl Augustin | DVP |
1924-1936 | Emil Franke | DNVP |
1936-1940 | Hermann Petzke | NSDAP |
1940-1945 | Hans Hättasch | NSDAP |
1945 | Bruno will books | |
1945-1946 | Gerhard Lights | SPD |
1946 | Otto Ostrowski | SPD |
1946-1951 | Walter Rieck | SPD |
1951-1955 | Wolfgang Rect | FDP |
1955 | Ottomar Batzel | CDU |
1956-1964 | Wilhelm Dumstrey | CDU |
1965-1971 | Gerhard Schmidt | SPD |
1971-1979 | Heribert Baumann | CDU |
1979-1981 | Henning von der Lancken | CDU |
1981-1996 | Horst Dohm | CDU |
1996-2000 | Michael Wrasmann | CDU |
Partnerships in the Wilmersdorf district
International
Apeldoorn ( Netherlands ) Gagny ( France ) Gladsaxe ( Denmark ) Karmi'el ( Israel ) Kiew-Pechersk ( Ukraine ) Międzyrzecz ( Poland ) Split ( Croatia ) Sutton ( United Kingdom )
National
- Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis ( Hesse )
- Forchheim district ( Bavaria )
- District of Kulmbach (Bavaria)
- Minden ( North Rhine-Westphalia )
See also
Web links
- An overview of Wilmersdorf's history. District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, accessed on December 1, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874-1945. 2004, accessed June 15, 2008 .
- ↑ April 1 (1912) in daily facts of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (at the DHM ).
- ↑ Berlin in Numbers, 1949
- ^ Arnold / Griesheim: rubble, railways and districts . Berlin 2002
- ^ Statistical yearbooks of Berlin