On March 14, 1903, the city council decided to name a street in the south-east district after Viktoria Luise von Preußen (1892-1980), the daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Viktoria Luise of Prussia was born in Potsdam on September 13, 1892 as the youngest child and only daughter of Emperor Wilhelm II and his wife Auguste Viktoria. Her parents entrusted her upbringing to teachers and governesses. In 1913, Viktoria Luise married Ernst August of Hanover, who was appointed reigning Duke of Brunswick in the same year. Viktoria Luise thus became Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess of Hanover and Princess of Great Britain and Ireland.

Little is known about the Duchess's life. In particular, hardly any statements on political issues have survived. One of the few statements that allow conclusions to be drawn about Viktoria Luise's attitude is her vehement rejection of the Versailles Peace Treaty of 1919 after the First World War. It is hardly surprising that Viktoria Luise, as the daughter of the Emperor now living in exile and as a result of her own loss of title, rejected the post-war order.

In the publication "Im Strom der Zeit", published under her name, the Versailles Peace Treaty is cited as the main reason for the radicalization in Germany. Critical quotes from well-known (democratic) politicians such as the later German President Theodor Heuss or the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill are cited as evidence. The account construes the Treaty of Versailles as the cause of Germany's economic difficulties, which in turn were the breeding ground for National Socialism under Hitler.

The Hohenzollerns cooperated with the Nazi regime from 1933 onwards. Although the former Kaiser Wilhelm II rejected the pogroms against the Jewish population as "Radau anti-Semitism", the ex-emperor did not take a public stand against the pogroms. In essence, the former emperor's rejection was directed against the way in which the Nazi regime acted against Jews, but not against persecution in general.

Although the autobiographical writings give the impression that Viktoria Luise was rather distant towards representatives of the Nazi regime, various contemporary witness accounts give a different impression.

Viktoria Luise and her husband continued to actively campaign for a rapprochement between England and Germany. In doing so, they supported the foreign policy goals of the Nazi regime. The couple also supported the National Socialists financially.

At the party conferences and the 1936 Olympic Games, Viktoria Luise took care of the British VIP guests. The princess made the family estate in Austria available for meetings of the Nazi leadership. The swastika flag was hoisted at the estate in Brunswick. Her daughter Friederike was accompanied by the Nazi press as she carried out her work duties.

Finally, Duke Ernst August of Hanover profited from "Aryanizations" and the exploitation of forced labour during the Nazi era. However, due to a lack of sources, it remains unclear whether and to what extent Viktoria Luise actively supported her husband in this.

After the end of the Second World War, Viktoria Luise lived in Marienburg Castle near Hanover. After her husband's death in 1953, she moved into a villa in Braunschweig. As a result, she had fewer financial resources at her disposal. In order to earn a living, Viktoria Luise began to publish autobiographical writings. She produced a total of seven publications, which appeared between 1965 and 1974. The books reached an audience of millions. The publications, written by ghostwriter Leonhard Schlüter, falsify history to a great extent and either omit or gloss over the role of the family of Hanover and thus also the Duchess herself during National Socialism. Viktoria Luise died in Hanover on December 11, 1980.

The Historical Expert Commission appointed by the City Council in 2020 to review traffic areas, buildings and facilities named after people in the state capital of Wiesbaden recommended renaming Viktoria-Luise-Straße because of Viktoria Luise of Prussia's immaterial support of the Nazi regime through her foreign policy activities, especially in Great Britain, and the provision of her estate in Austria for National Socialist meetings. As a result, she actively supported the Nazi movement.

Through her representative function at German-British meetings and at the 1936 Olympic Games, Viktoria Luise of Prussia publicly articulated National Socialist ideology.

After the end of Nazi rule, Viktoria Luise von Preußen relativized and played down the crimes of the Nazi regime in her autobiographical writings and relativized her own role with the intention of whitewashing and exculpating.