Named after Lipschitzallee, which honours the Social Democrat Joachim Lipschitz.
Joachim Lipschitz (1918–1961), who suffered discrimination under the Nazis because of his Jewish father, went into hiding in 1944. From 1955 he was West Berlin's interior senator. In 1958 he launched the 'Unbesungene Helden' (unsung heroes) initiative, which for the first time honoured Berliners who had sheltered people persecuted by the Nazis.