Named after Schichauweg, which honours the engineer Ferdinand Schichau (1814–1896).
Schichau, from Elbing (now Elbląg), founded the Schichau works there in 1837, building hydraulic machines, dredgers and locomotives, and later a shipyard. In 1855 his works launched the Borussia, the first iron screw-driven seagoing steamer built in Prussia. The street was named in 1930; the station opened in 1990 as the only new S-Bahn station built by the BVG while it ran the S-Bahn in West Berlin.