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Following the establishment of the German Democratic Republic the Frankfurter Allee was officially renamed Stalinallee on 22 December 1949 to honour Stalin's 70th birthday. The street was to become the most well known in East Berlin, with the poet Kurt Barthel penning a poem to commemorate the occasion of its renaming:
Wie soll man Stalin danken?
Wir geben dieser Strasse seinen Namen.
In August 1951 the first statute of Stalin to be erected in the GDR was unveiled on Stalinallee. A new building programme was also launched in the same year to provide housing in the area around the street. Led by the architect Hermann Henselmann the project was designed in the Stalinist style, but reputedly suffered from poor construction work and ran over budget. Despite being intended as a showcase of the Stalinist project in the GDR, the East German uprising of 1953 first began on a construction site of the project. In November 1961 the road was once again renamed Frankfurter Allee.[6]
^Azaryahu, Maoz (October 1986). "Street Names and Political Identity: The Case of East Berlin". Journal of Contemporary History. 21 (4): 588. doi:10.1177/002200948602100405.
^Azaryahu, Maoz (October 1986). "Street Names and Political Identity: The Case of East Berlin". Journal of Contemporary History. 21 (4): 594–596. doi:10.1177/002200948602100405.
