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Karlshorst


Karlshorst (literally meaning ''Karl's nest'' in German) is a locality in the borough of Lichtenberg in Berlin. It houses a harness racing track and the Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (''FHTW''), the largest University of Applied Sciences in Berlin.



History


Established in 1895 as the ''Carlshorst'' mansion's colony, Karlshorst from 1902 had access to the railway line from Berlin to Breslau (today Wrocław) and developed to a quite affluent residential area, sometimes referred to as "Dahlem of the East". The locality encompasses the ''Waldsiedlung'', a garden city laid out between 1919 and 1921 according to plans by Peter Behrens.

In April 1945, as the Red Army approached the Reich's capital, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, commander of the 1st Belorussian Front, established his headquarters at a former Wehrmacht officer's mess hall in Karlshorst, where on May 9, the unconditional surrender of the German forces was presented to Zhukov by Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.

From 1945 to 1949 the building complex served as the headquarter of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany. After the establishment of the German Democratic Republic it hosted the Command of the Soviet forces in East Germany until the last Russian soldiers left Karlshorst in 1994. Quite appropriately the former headquarter has been made the home of the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst (''Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst'') [http://www.museum-karlshorst.de/].

Transportation


Karlshorst has acces to the Berlin S-Bahn network at Berlin-Karlshorst railway station, which is also served by RegionalExpress trains of the Deutsche Bahn.

Notable people


Born in Karlshorst


* Joachim Fest, editor, born December 8, 1926, Hentigstraße 13, died September 11, 2006 in Kronberg im Taunus

Dwelt in Karlshorst


* Max Beer, historian, Gundelfinger Straße 47
* Hans Bellmer, photographer, Ehrenfelsstraße 8
* Hans and Hilde Coppi, resistance fighters, Römerweg
* Hedwig Courths-Mahler, writer, Dönhoffstraße 11 from 1905 to 1914
* Erich Ollenhauer, politician, dwelt in Karlshorst, Trautenauer Straße 6
* August Stramm, poet, Lehndorffstraße 16
* Ernst Torgler, politician, Liepnitzstraße 46
* Max Wertheimer, psychologist, Ehrlichstraße 31
The engineer Georg Knorr is buried at the Karlshorst cemetery.

Karlshorst
Source: Wikipedia