Mohrenstraße is a street in central Berlin. It runs from west to east between Wilhelmstraße and , and partially forming the southern edge of Gendarmenmarkt. The Berlin U-Bahn station Mohrenstraße is located at its western end, and is served by the . A number of buildings in the street date to the mid-19th century (Gründerzeit) or were reconstructed after World War II, and are protected historic buildings. In August 2020, in the context of broader re-examinations of European colonial history spurred by the George Floyd protests, the borough assembly of Berlin-Mitte suggested that the borough authority rename the street Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße, honoring Anton Wilhelm Amo, the first African to receive a doctorate from a German university. Name The German word Mohr (pl. Mohren) was the common word for persons with black skin in the pre-colonial period from the 16th to early 18th century. Like the English word "Moor", it is derived from the Latin Maurus and originally denoted the North African Berber peoples, but came to be used about the (equally Berber) Muslim rulers of medieval Spain and Portugal, then Arabs or Muslims in general and eventually black Africans. A Mohrenstraße or Mohrenplatz also exists in a few other cities. More widespread, the word Mohr is part of the names of numerous historical houses or traditional companies such as inns and breweries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and in some cases in Luxemburg, the Czech Republic and Poland. Over 100 pharmacies called Mohren-Apotheke exist or have existed. Often, these were named after a house mark depicting a blackamoor or Moor's head figure. Some establishments have changed their names after being subject to "shitstorms" (a word commonly used in German for social media based negative campaigns). The Drei Mohren Hotel in Augsburg was assumed to be named after three visiting Abyssinian monks in 1495, but in 2020 renamed in Hotel Maximilian's after a campaign by the local Amnesty International youth group. Also in 2020, the Mohrenbrauerei in Vorarlberg, after receiving smears, agreed to change its brand logotype, but declined to change its name which was derived from its founder in 1784, Joseph Mohr. The dictionary Duden has since 2012 described the word as often being seen as discriminatory, and since 2019 as "obsolete, today discriminatory" (veraltet, heute diskriminierend), although others dispute this view and point out that the use of the word in historical contexts isn't discriminatory. A number of explanations have