List of honorary citizens of Eisenach

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The honorary citizenship is the highest honor that the city of Eisenach awards. The mayor of the city awards it to personalities who have rendered outstanding services to the city by resolution of the city council.

The list is in the chronological order of the award.

The honorary citizens of the city of Eisenach

Honorary Citizen's Letter of the City of Eisenach for Eduard Stöhr (1921)
Hugo von Ritgen
Julius von Eichel-Streiber
Otto von Bismarck
Paul von Hindenburg
Karl Hermann
  1. Franz Maximilian Diez (1767-1851)
    Councilor and Chief Post Commissioner of the city
    Awarded: 1837
  2. Christian Theodor Reussig (1767–1846)
    Senior Medical Officer, Eisenach City Physician
    Awarded: 1841
  3. Valentin Simon (1792-1862)
    Founder and major of the Eisenach vigilante group
    Awarded: 1848
  4. Wilhelm Weißenborn (1803-1878)
    Councilor and high school teacher, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
    Awarded: 1849
  5. Helene, Duchess of Orleans (1814-1858)
    Benefactress
    Awarded: 1851
  6. Friedrich Wilhelm Heerwart (1787–1863)
    Privy Councilor of Justice, Vice-President of the Court of Appeal
    Awarded: 1858
  7. Hugo von Ritgen (1811-1889)
    Court building officer, restorer of the Wartburg
    Awarded: 1868
  8. Julius von Eichel-Streiber (1820–1905)
    Manor owner, manufacturer and patron
    Awarded: 1878
  9. August Roese (1807-1891)
    Mayor of Eisenach, street naming
    Awarded: 1884
  10. Carl Grebe (1816-1890)
    Oberlandesforstmeister, Real Privy Council,
    Awarded: 1890
  11. Eduard von Eichel-Streiber (1818–1896)
    Manor owner, manufacturer and patron
    Awarded: 1893
  12. Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898)
    Reich Chancellor, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, street naming
    Awarded: 1895
  13. Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934)
    Field Marshal General , later Reich President, on the occasion of his 70th birthday
    Awarded: 1917
  14. Adolf von Donndorf (1835-1916)
    Sculptor, for his monuments created in Eisenach
    Awarded: 1895
  15. Eduard Stöhr (1846–1928)
    Secret Commerce Councilor, industrialist, benefactor, street naming
    Awarded: 1921
  16. Curt Elschner (1876–1963)
    The councilor of commerce, hotelier and patron donated a picture gallery and the Eulenspiegel fountain to the city
    Awarded: 1926
  17. Fritz Janson (1885-1946)
    Lord Mayor, first President of the Wartburg Foundation
    Awarded: 1937
  18. Moritz Mitzenheim (1891–1977)
    Regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Thuringia , street naming
    Awarded: 1961
  19. Alfred Markwitz (1883–1965)
    Antifascist, mayor, merits in building up socialism, naming streets
    Awarded: 1963
  20. August Rudloff (1884–1966)
    Merits in socialist construction, street naming
    Awarded: 1964
  21. Karl Hermann (1885–1973)
    Lord Mayor, merits in socialist construction, street naming, honor grave (since 2008)
    Awarded: 1966
  22. Avital Ben-Chorin (1923-2017)
    Holocaust survivor born in Eisenach, services to German-Jewish reconciliation
    Awarded: 2012

The honorary citizenships awarded centrally to the NSDAP politicians Adolf Hitler , Wilhelm Frick and Fritz Sauckel in 1933 were revoked by a municipal council resolution on December 5, 1946.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Die Ehrenbürger der Wartburgstadt In: Mitteldeutsche Allgemeine, Lokalseite Eisenach, No. 20 of January 25, 1994 p. 20
  2. ↑ "Displaced Jew receives honorary citizenship", Thüringer Allgemeine, online edition , accessed on July 26, 2012

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