- Karlshorst
Karlshorst (literally meaning "Karl's nest" in German) is a locality in the borough of
Lichtenberg inBerlin .Established in 1895 as the "Carlshorst" mansion's colony, Karlshorst has a
Berlin S-Bahn station, which is also served byRegionalExpress trains of theDeutsche Bahn .Karlshorst has a historically important background. In April 1945, as the
Red Army approached the Reich's capital,Marshal Georgy Zhukov , commander of the1st Belorussian Front , established his headquarters at Karlshorst. OnMay 9 , the final German surrender was presented to Zhukov at Karlshorst byColonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of theLuftwaffe ,Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as Chief of Staff ofOKW , andAdmiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of theKriegsmarine . The signing ceremony was held at a former officer'smess hall in Karlshorst, which is currently a museum [http://www.museum-karlshorst.de/] . From 1945 to 1949 the building served as theheadquarter of theSoviet 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 largestUniversity of Applied Sciences in Berlin.Notable people
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Joachim Fest , editor, born December 8, 1926 in Karlshorst, Hentigstraße 13, died September 11, 2006 inKronberg im Taunus
*Hedwig Courths-Mahler ,writer lived in Karlshorst, Dönhoffstraße 11 from 1905 to 1914ee also
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Victory in Europe Day External links
* http://www.karlshorst.de/ - official site
* http://www.karlshorst-info.de/ - information about Karlshorst
* http://www.treskowallee.de/ - information about Karlshorst
* http://www.museum-karlshorst.de/ - German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
* http://www.fckarlshorst.de/ - official site of FC Karlshorst 1995
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