It is connected to the neighboring Savignyplatz via the Else-Ury-Bogen, and the S-Bahn station of the same name can be reached from Bleibtreustraße by elevator Initially, the street was simply called Straße 12a in the Abt.

In 1942, the Jewish Community was forced to sell the house to Erika Brümmel, widow of the district mayor of Berlin-Mitte, who died in 1942, and the proceeds were confiscated by the Gestapo.

For a time, the house served as a forced residence for Jews called a "Judenhaus," where Jewish tenants were forcibly committed before being deported to Nazi concentration camps where they were murdered.

At Bleibtreustraße 4 lived SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein, a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany, close to Adolf Hitler and brother-in-law to Eva Braun through his marriage to her sister Gretl.

On behalf of brothel entrepreneur Hans Helmcke, an armed gang led by Klaus Speer attacked rival Iranian pimps at the Restaurant Bucharest, killing one of them and injuring three others.