Wilmersdorf district

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Coat of arms of the former Wilmersdorf district
Coat of arms of Berlin
Wilmersdorf
district 1920–2000 district of Berlin
Location of the former Wilmersdorf district in Berlin
Coordinates 52 ° 29 ′ 31 ″  N , 13 ° 18 ′ 19 ″  E 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 .

Wilmersdorf district within the boundaries of 1920

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

Coat of
arms of the Wilmersdorf district (1920–2000)
year Residents
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:

1921-1933
year DNVP DVP DDP ¹ SPD USPD Zen KPD NSDAP
1921 27.9 25.5 14.3 13.3 06.6 03.2 02.8
1925 33.7 10.6 17.4 20.3 03.1 05.9
1929 28.8 13.9 12.8 18.8 04.0 07.4 08.5
1933 20.2 01.5 06.0 18.4 05.8 06.5 41.1

1933: DStP

1946-1999
year SPD CDU FDP ¹ Green ²
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 05.5
1963 50.3 37.1 11.9
1967 45.5 42.0 09.8
1971 40.0 46.4 10.9
1975 5 34.6 50.6 09.1
1979 35.5 49.4 08.9 05.1
1981 31.3 50.7 05.8 11.0
1985 26.9 50.9 05.5 14.6
1989 31.5 39.5 05.1 16.6
1992 27.1 40.5 07.0 16.3
1995 24.2 45.8 03.8 20.2
1999 25.4 48.5 04.2 15.7

¹ to 1948: LDP
² to 1989: AL

District Mayor

Period Surname Political party
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

NetherlandsNetherlands Apeldoorn ( Netherlands ) Gagny ( France ) Gladsaxe ( Denmark ) Karmi'el ( Israel ) Kiew-Pechersk ( Ukraine ) Międzyrzecz ( Poland ) Split ( Croatia ) Sutton ( United Kingdom )
FranceFrance
DenmarkDenmark
IsraelIsrael
UkraineUkraine
PolandPoland
CroatiaCroatia
United KingdomUnited Kingdom

National

See also

Web links

Commons : Berlin-Wilmersdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874-1945. 2004, accessed June 15, 2008 .
  2. April 1 (1912) in daily facts of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (at the DHM ).
  3. Berlin in Numbers, 1949
  4. ^ Arnold / Griesheim: rubble, railways and districts . Berlin 2002
  5. ^ Statistical yearbooks of Berlin