The street name honoring of the “colonial warrior”, Freikorps chief and anti-Semite Georg Ludwig Rudolf Maercker has come to an end: on Friday, February 17, at 11 a.m., the Lankwitzer Maerckerweg will be given a new name. From now on, the Maria-Rimkus-Weg will commemorate a “Righteous Among the Nations”: Maria Rimkus had helped the heavily pregnant Jewish forced laborer Ruth Abraham and her family during National Socialism and, among other things, made it possible to flee Nazi Germany with forged passports. The celebration of the naming of the Maria Rimkus Path is public; it takes place at the corner of Maerckerweg and Emmichstraße.
In 1953, the State of Israel honored Maria Rimkus as “Righteous Among the Nations” at the Yad Vashem Memorial. Born in Lankwitz, she lived on Mörchinger Straße in Zehlendorf until her death in 2001. In 2020, the district assembly decided that the Maerckerweg should be renamed. In 2021, the district politicians then agreed on the new name.
Since 2011, the former senior citizens’ leisure center “Club Lankwitz” located at the municipal park has been called “Maria-Rimkus-Haus”. On the Website of the social welfare office Steglitz-Zehlendorf It says: “Maria Rimkus belongs to the group of silent heroes who helped their persecuted fellow human beings without much fuss and without expecting applause for it. On the contrary: Her philanthropy and belief as a Catholic pushed her to civil courage and charity. Without the testimony of people like Maria Rimkus, Steglitz-Zehlendorf would be poorer.”
In 1997, Maria Rimkus reported to the US Shoah Foundation about meeting the Abraham family. On Youtube is a Excerpt of the interview available (Screenshot above).
Here are the topics from the current Tagesspiegel newsletter for Steglitz-Zehlendorf
It comes out every Thursday Tagesspiegel newsletter for Steglitz-Zehlendorf. It is available in full, once a week with lots of specific district news, tips and dates at tagesspiegel.de/districts. This time Boris Buchholz reports on the following topics, among others:
- Traffic light? CDU? Will the first green district mayor remain in office? It’s in your hands – when you walk to the polling station on Sunday
- The only thing that helps is to gain momentum with the electric wheelchair: Semih Acanal from Suedende reports on the hurdles on the way to the S-Bahn – and how dangerous the high curbs are for him
- “We really want to help!”: Diakonieverein collects for the earthquake victims in Turkey
- Election Sunday can come: The postal voting rate is already over 23 percent
- The duel for the post of mayor: Maren Schellenberg (Greens) vs. Cerstin Richter-Kotowski (CDU)
- Site visit with Mr. FUBIC: Things are progressing on Fabeckstraße – even a tower will fall
- The horse university is not coming yet: Because the garden tenants are complaining, the expensive horse competence center will probably remain in Bad Saarow for the time being
- Open again soon: The Zehlendorf playground for all generations has become more colourful
- The courtship display of the cormorants at the Schlachtensee: So far, only practiced for later love life
- A historic concert: Papa Karlo played in Kharkiv Park
- The tip of the first voter to young people: “You have a voice that needs to be heard!”
- Concert: Singing along is part of “Teltow sings” program
- “Righteous Among the Nations”: The Lankwitzer Maerckerweg becomes the Maria-Rimkus-Weg
- Z88 at the top of the table the second hockey federal league east
- Ideas for safe school routes and less traffic on Crailsheimer Strasse
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