Karlshorst

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Location of Karlshorst in the Lichtenberg borough of Berlin

Karlshorst (literally meaning Karl's nest in German) is a locality in the borough of Lichtenberg in Berlin.

Established in 1895 as the Carlshorst mansion's colony, Karlshorst has a Berlin S-Bahn station, which is also served by RegionalExpress trains of the Deutsche Bahn.

German-Russian Museum

Karlshorst has a historically important background. 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 Karlshorst. On May 9, the final German surrender was presented to Zhukov at Karlshorst 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. The signing ceremony was held at a former officer's mess hall in Karlshorst, which is currently a museum [1]. From 1945 to 1949 the building served as the headquarter of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany. 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).

Today Karlshorst houses the Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (FHTW), the largest University of Applied Sciences in Berlin.

[edit] Notable people

Joachim Fest, editor, born December 8, 1926 in Karlshorst, Hentigstraße 13, died September 11, 2006 in Kronberg im Taunus
Hedwig Courths-Mahler, writer lived in Karlshorst, Dönhoffstraße 11 from 1905 to 1914