List of honorary citizens of Greifswald

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This list of the honorary citizens of Greifswald shows the honorary citizens of Greifswald .

Honorary citizen of the university and Hanseatic city of Greifswald

  1. Hermann Kühne (judge) (born November 12, 1819; † January 1887)
    Awarded on January 14, 1880
  2. Johannes Krech (* July 2, 1834 - † January 20, 1915)
    Awarded in November 1884
  3. Richard Sigmund Schultze (born February 1, 1831 in Freiburg im Breisgau; † January 5, 1916 in Greifswald)
    Mayor of Greifswald
    Awarded in March 1906
  4. Friedrich August Johannes Loeffler (born June 24, 1852 in Frankfurt (Oder), † April 9, 1915 in Berlin)
    Physician, hygienist and bacteriologist, student of Robert Koch in Berlin.
    Awarded on May 10, 1914
  5. Edmund Stengel (born April 5, 1845 in Halle (Saale), † November 3, 1935 in Marburg)
    Romance studies and university professor
    Awarded on February 21, 1920
  6. Johannes Rehmke (born February 1, 1848 in Hainholz near Elmshorn, † December 23, 1930 in Marburg)
    Philosopher and university professor
    Awarded on February 1, 1923
  7. Max Albert Wilhelm Lenz (born June 13, 1850 in Greifswald; † April 6, 1932 in Berlin)
    Historian and university professor
    Awarded on January 28, 1925
  8. Erich Peiper (born May 19, 1856 in Leubus Monastery; † September 13, 1938 in Greifswald)
    Pediatrician
    Awarded on October 24, 1926
  9. Ernst Lucht (born December 23, 1871 in Kolberg, † April 16, 1934 in Greifswald)
    Architect and Prussian building officer
    Awarded on September 23, 1928
  10. Johannes Luther (born October 12, 1861 in Seehausen (Altmark), † May 1, 1954 in Greifswald)
    Germanist and librarian, professor at the University of Greifswald
    Awarded on May 10, 1932
  11. Martin Andersen Nexø (born June 26, 1869 in Christianshavn, Copenhagen; † June 1, 1954 in Dresden)
    Danish writer
    Awarded on July 7, 1949
  12. Gerhardt Katsch (born May 14, 1887 in Berlin; † March 7, 1961 in Greifswald)
    Internist, professor of internal medicine, director of the medical clinic and the rector of Greifswald University
    Awarded on May 14, 1952
    For his services in handing over the city to the Soviet Army in April 1945 without a fight.
  13. Rudolf Petershagen (born June 4, 1901 in Hamburg, † April 13, 1969 in Greifswald)
    Officer of the German Wehrmacht, city commander of Greifswald
    Awarded on October 19, 1955
    For his services in surrendering the city without a fight on April 30, 1945, which saved it from destruction by Soviet troops.
  14. Pawel Mironowitsch Sineoki (born January 1, 1901, † July 12, 1977)
    Soviet military commander
    Awarded on November 7, 1971
  15. Werner Westphal (born June 18, 1907; † September 11, 1990)
    Awarded on November 7, 1971
  16. Nikolai Grigoryevich Lyashchenko (* 1910 in Sima (Irkutsk), † October 10, 2000 in Moscow)
    Soviet Army General
    Awarded on May 11, 1980
    For his services in surrendering the city without a fight in April 1945.
  17. Johann Schönfeld (born February 28, 1907; † July 13, 1992)
    Officer of the German Wehrmacht
    Awarded posthumously in 1993
    For his services in surrendering the city without a fight in April 1945.
  18. Max Otto Wurmbach (born September 24, 1885; † 1946)
    Officer of the German Wehrmacht
    Awarded posthumously in 1993
    For his services in surrendering the city without a fight in April 1945.
  19. Wolfgang Koeppen (born June 23, 1906 in Greifswald; † March 15, 1996 in Munich)
    writer
    Awarded on March 14, 1994
  20. Berthold Beitz (born September 26, 1913 in Zemmin; † July 30, 2013 in Kampen, Sylt)
    Managers and business leaders
    Awarded on May 26, 1995

Revocation of honorary citizenship

Honorary citizenship was revoked from the persons listed here.

  1. Wilhelm Karpenstein (born May 24, 1903 in Frankfurt am Main; † May 2, 1968 in Lauterbach (Hesse))
    Gauleiter of Pomerania
    Awarded on May 11, 1933, revoked on September 5, 1935
  2. Hermann Lindgreen (born January 1, 1890 - † March 7, 1965)
    Communist resistance fighter
    Awarded on February 24, 1965, termination of honorary citizenship by BS on December 6, 1990
  3. Hans von Beseler (born April 27, 1850 in Greifswald; † December 20, 1921 in Neubabelsberg)
    Prussian colonel general and politician
    Awarded on October 12, 1915, revoked on May 23, 1991

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