List of honorary citizens of Dresden
Honorary citizens of Dresden are people who, according to the city's assessment - by the city council until 1994 (after 1945 the city council ), since then by the city council - have made special contributions to Dresden or have shown special ties to Dresden. The appraisal is carried out by the respective mayor at a ceremony based on a majority decision.
| Date of award | Surname | comment |
|---|---|---|
| October 7, 1833 | Johann Paul von Falkenstein | Minister of State |
| June 21, 1838 | Friedrich August Bevilaqua | Major General, Commander of the Communal Guard |
| September 4, 1843 | Bernhard August von Lindenau | Minister of State, author of the General City Code for Saxony |
| December 17, 1848 | Karl Heinrich West | Registrar in the Saxon War Ministry, head of the poor |
| March 5, 1851 | Karl Gottfried Theodor Winkler (pseudonym: Theodor Hell ) | Writer, councilor, deputy director of the royal musical band and the court theater |
| December 5, 1851 | Friedrich Ferdinand Gottlieb von Globig | Privy Councilor and Chamberlain |
| August 1, 1853 | Friedrich August Franke | Consistorial councilor , court preacher |
| November 21, 1855 | Count Franz Seraphicus von Kuefstein | Really Privy councilor and chamberlain, authorized minister, Austrian envoy in Dresden from 1845–1854 |
| May 30, 1857 | Crown Prince Albert | then heir to the throne |
| May 30, 1857 | Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust | Minister of State |
| May 30, 1857 | Ferdinand von Zschinsky | Minister of State |
| December 15, 1864 | Eduard von Könneritz | Real secret council , county director |
| December 15, 1864 | Gustav von Hake | Saxon general of the infantry, governor of Dresden |
| May 1, 1866 | Johann Meyer | Wholesale merchant, sponsor of scholarships |
| July 11, 1871 | Prince Otto von Bismarck-Schönhausen | Chancellor |
| July 11, 1871 | Helmut Graf von Moltke | Field Marshal General |
| December 31, 1874 | Karl Julius Stübel | Secret Justice Council, Deputy Director of the District Court |
| October 16, 1876 | Richard Baron von Friesen | Minister of State a. D. |
| October 31, 1876 | Heinrich Moritz Neubert | mayor |
| February 17, 1878 | Karl Gustav Ackermann | Attorney and notary, financial procurator , head of city council |
| December 22, 1878 | Adrian Ludwig Richter | Landscape painter and professor at the Dresden Art Academy |
| December 28, 1878 | Ernst Albert Jordan | Merchant and factory owner, go. Kommerzienrat, 2nd deputy chairman of the city council |
| May 31, 1882 | Hermann von Nostitz-Wallwitz | Minister of State, Auditor of the General Urban Code for Saxony (1873) |
| October 11, 1883 | Ernst Julius Hähnel | Sculptor and professor at the Dresden Art Academy |
| October 11, 1883 | Johannes Schilling | Sculptor and professor at the Dresden Art Academy |
| March 31, 1885 | Louis Friedrich Oskar von Schwarze | Attorney General, City Councilor |
| May 11, 1887 | Prince George of Saxony | then heir to the throne |
| August 9, 1891 | Paul Alfred Stubel | Lord Mayor |
| April 30, 1894 | Carl Ludwig Alfred Fiedler | Go Medical councilor, senior physician at the city hospital |
| May 11, 1897 | Prince Friedrich August of Saxony | then heir to the throne |
| September 29, 1905 | Karl Georg Levin von Metzsch-Reichenbach | Minister of State |
| October 6, 1909 | Otto Heinrich Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt | Really Privy Councilor, Captain a. D. |
| October 31, 1911 | Karl August Lingner | Really Privy councilor, businessman and cosmetics manufacturer, founder of the Lingner-Werke, the Saxon Serumwerk, the German Hygiene Museum, founder of numerous health and hygiene institutions, promoter of the arts and the like. a. m. |
| September 9, 1915 | Gustav Otto Beutler | Lord Mayor |
| December 30, 1915 | Johannes Georg Stöckel | Lawyer, Senior Justice Councilor, City Councilor |
| March 25, 1933 | Adolf Hitler | Reich Chancellor (revoked according to the decision of the Council of June 25, 1945) |
| March 27, 1933 | Paul von Beneckendorf and von Hindenburg | President of the empire |
| May 11, 1933 | Martin Mutschmann | Reich governor in Saxony (revoked according to the decision of the council of June 25, 1945) |
| June 11, 1934 | Richard Strauss | Composer, general music director |
| March 12, 1937 | Wilhelm Frick | Reich Minister of the Interior (revoked according to the decision of the Council of June 25, 1945) |
| May 11, 1946 | Hermann Matern | Member of the Central Secretariat (ZK) of the SED , 1945 - City Councilor in Dresden, KPD District Secretary in Saxony |
| May 11, 1946 | Rudolf Friedrichs | President of the State Administration of Saxony, 1945 - Lord Mayor of the City of Dresden |
| May 11, 1946 | Kurt Fischer | 1st Vice President of the State Administration of Saxony, 1945 - First Mayor of Dresden |
| May 10, 1953 | Martin Andersen Nexø | Danish worker poet |
| April 27, 1954 | Otto Buchwitz | Age President of the People's Chamber of the GDR, 1945 ff. - Chairman of the SPD / SED in Saxony, President of the Saxon State Parliament |
| January 19, 1963 | Johannes Dieckmann | President of the People's Chamber of the GDR |
| May 10, 1963 | Natalia Ivanovna Sokolova | Soviet art scholar |
| May 10, 1963 | Stepan Sergeyevich Churakov | Soviet restorer |
| May 10, 1963 | Andrei Alexandrovich Guber | Soviet restorer, professor |
| March 11, 1964 | Otto Grotewohl | Chairman of the SED, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the GDR |
| 4th October 1969 | Walter Weidauer | 1945 - City Councilor, First Mayor; 1946 to 1958 - Lord Mayor of the City of Dresden |
| April 26, 1979 | Wilhelm Rudolph | Painter and graphic artist, professor |
| June 25, 1979 | Gret Palucca | Dance teacher, professor |
| December 19, 1982 | Max Seydewitz | Writer, cultural politician, 1947 to 1952 - Prime Minister in Saxony from 1956 Director General of the Dresden State Art Collections, Professor |
| June 13, 1986 | Karl Friedemann | Resistance fighter and party veteran (SED) |
| 2nd September 1988 | Martin Flämig | Kreuzkantor , Professor |
| December 12, 1988 | Liesel Schuch-Ganzel | Opera singer |
| September 26, 1989 | Manfred von Ardenne | Scientist, head of the research institute "Manfred von Ardenne" |
| March 28, 1996 | Hans Nadler | Chief curator at the Institute for Monument Preservation in Dresden |
| July 5, 2003 | Christof Ziemer | ev. pastor, member of the citizens' movement 1989 |
| March 31, 2006 | Eberhard Burger | Building director of the Dresden Frauenkirche |