It is named after the Bavarian general and Minister of War Joseph Maximilian von Maillinger.
[1] At Maillingerstraße 11, a three-story extension was built in 1979 for the payment agency for Bavarian state employees.
[4] They refer to The Bavarian industrialist Georg Krauß founded the locomotive factory Krauss & Comp.
From 1924 on, the Grünsfelder brothers owned a wholesale metal shop at Maillingerstraße 23, the former bell foundry of Ulrich Kortler (1846-1928).
From 1890, the street leading from Marsstraße was initially called Haslangstraße, (for a Bavarian field marshal), then from 1947, Baudrexelstraße, named after the master builder Josef Baudrexel (1861-1943).
The Munich map in the 14th edition of the Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon (1891) shows the entire street had been developed further and includes the locomotive factory and the infantry barracks.