The first station building was a wooden pavilion that had been rebuilt from the German House designed by Walter Kyllmann and Adolf Heyden for the Weltausstellung 1873 Wien (Vienna World Exhibition).

At the end of the Second World War, the Teltow Canal bridge at Kohlhasenbrück was blown up so that there were no rail operations between Zehlendorf and Babelsberg Ufastadt from April 1945 to 15 June 1948.

Access at Griebnitzsee station to transit traffic through the GDR to and from West Berlin was not allowed.

The station handled interzonal traffic between West and East Germany via the Berlin Stadtbahn.

This included the monitoring of the access routes to prevent unauthorised embarkation of passengers (Republikflucht).

At the station there was also a post with guard dogs so that the under parts of the trains could be searched for hidden people.

On 18 April 1962, two graduates of the NPA officer school attempting to leave East Germany were involved in a shootout on the station premises, resulting in refugee Peter Boehme and border policeman Jörgen Schmidtchen being shot.

With the resumption of traffic between Wannsee and Potsdam on 1 April 1992, the rail platform was restored to service.

Operations at the station (apart from the S-Bahn) were very restricted because regional traffic could only utilise a single side platform next to the double-track main line.