[5] Meinhard von Gerkan was born on 3 January 1935 in Riga, Latvia, to a Baltic German family.

[6] His family lived on what is now called Eduarda Smiļģa Street [lv], and spent summers in the resort town of Jūrmala, where they stayed at a wooden house.

[14] The court ruling ordered Deutsche Bahn to replace the station's flat ceilings with the vaulted ones in von Gerkan's original design.

[11][13] The matter was eventually settled in a confidential agreement, which included a sizeable donation to Academy for Architectural Culture [de], an organization founded by gmp, von Gerkan's firm.

[16][17] Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that an anonymous source who attended the negotiations stated that gmp received a high seven-figure amount.

[22] In addition, he was related to architect and archaeologist Armin von Gerkan, who served as director of the German Archaeological Institute's department in Rome [de] from 1938 to 1944.