Named after Uhlandstraße, which honours the poet Ludwig Uhland.
Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) was a poet, literary scholar, lawyer and politician, and a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, the first all-German parliament. Charlottenburg named the street after him on 25 April 1885. The station opened in 1913 as the first stop of a planned line to Halensee that was never built, so it is still the end of the U1.