‘East station’: a name given in 1950 to replace Schlesischer Bahnhof.
No other Berlin station has changed its name so often. It opened in 1842 as Frankfurter Bahnhof, terminus of the line to Frankfurt (Oder), and became Schlesischer Bahnhof (Silesian station) in 1881. On 1 December 1950 it was renamed Ostbahnhof, to drop the reference to the former German eastern territories after the GDR recognised the Oder–Neisse border. From 1987 to 1998 it was called Hauptbahnhof.