What to do against agressive homeless addict?

The Sozialpsychiatrischer Dienst suggestion is solid, but you can also try the Kiezkontaktbereichsbeamter (KKB) for your area. Every Berlin district has one or two officers assigned specifically to neighborhood issues like this. They tend to know the local problem cases by name and have more flexibility to do informal interventions than the regular Streifenwagen crews. If you call the Abschnitt and ask for the KKB for your Kiez, you'll likely get someone who actually knows who you're talking about and has dealt with him before.

For the spitting specifically, you can also file a Strafanzeige online at the Berlin police portal. It takes about 10 minutes and creates a case number. Even if nothing happens immediately, having three or four complaints from different neighbors on file changes how seriously they take it. The threshold for a Gefährderansprache is lower with a paper trail.

If the noise at night is the main issue, the Ordnungsamt can also issue Platzverweise for your specific street section, though they're less effective with homeless people who have nowhere to go. You'd need to coordinate with neighbors and document specific times and dates.

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honestly the real move here is getting your neighbors to file reports too. one complaint from a random person gets ignored but when 5 people from the same haus or street all file anzeigen about the same guy within a week the police have to actually do something because it looks bad for them. talk to your hausverwaltung or the altbau neighbors who've been there longer they prob already have stories

also if he's loud at night the Ordnungsamt is surprisingly useful for this. they can issue a Platzverweis for like 24-48 hours which doesn't solve the root problem but gives you a quiet night. the trick is calling them at like 2am when he's yelling not the next morning. 110 will just say call the regular police but the Ordnungsamt number for your bezirk actually sends someone out for noise complaints. they're stricter than cops about documenting stuff

one thing nobody mentioned is that Berlin has a Streetwork team for each bezirk too. they're social workers who specifically deal with homeless people with addiction issues and they actually know the guy by name probably. they can't force him into treatment but they can offer him a Platz in a supervised shelter or a clean needle program which sometimes gets them out of the kiez for a while. your bezirksamt website has the kontakt for them under suchthilfe or obdachlosenhilfe

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Spitting on someone is technically a crime (Körperverletzung) even if it's hard to get police to act on it. You could try filing a formal complaint at the Abschnitt police station for your area and ask for a "Gefährderansprache" where they'd talk to him directly. It won't fix his situation but it creates a paper trail and sometimes puts enough pressure on them to move along to another U-Bahn station. The other thing that actually works in Berlin is reaching out to the Sozialpsychiatrischer Dienst for your Bezirk they can intervene if someone is clearly a danger to themselves or others, which yelling at night and spitting on people arguably qualifies.

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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