Named after Tino Schwierzina, the last Lord Mayor of East Berlin.
Tino Schwierzina (1927–2003), an SPD politician, co-founded the GDR’s Social Democratic Party in 1989 and was Oberbürgermeister of East Berlin from May 1990 to January 1991, the first and last freely elected one. In 2013 Pankow renamed the old Berliner Straße, the road into Berlin through Heinersdorf, after him.