Named after Erich-Weinert-Straße, which honours the writer Erich Weinert.
Erich Weinert (1890–1953) was a writer who reported from the Spanish Civil War with the International Brigades and in 1943 became president of the National Committee for a Free Germany. The street got his name in 1954. From 1904 it had been Carmen-Sylva-Straße, after the pen name of Elisabeth zu Wied, later Queen of Romania.