List of honorary citizens of Hildesheim
The following list shows the honorary citizens of the city of Hildesheim .
According to Sections 29, 58, Paragraph 1, No. 6 of Lower Saxony's Municipal Constitutional Law , honorary citizenship can only be granted to living persons who have made a contribution to the community . It goes out with death. A withdrawal can only take place during lifetime. The City Council of Hildesheim therefore unanimously passed a resolution in its meeting on February 7, 1983, in which it expressly distances itself from granting Adolf Hitler , Hanns Kerrl and Hermann Muhs honorary citizenship .
- December 12, 1834 Georg August Kuckuck , city commander of Hildesheim and founder of the Hildesheim deaf-mute institution
- March 13, 1835 Franz August Hagemann , director of the Hildesheim law firm
- ? Konrad Rudolf Hoppenstedt , auditor in the tax forest domain administration, master builder
- November 25, 1845 Carl von Beaulieu-Marconnay , head forest master
- May 24, 1854 Gottlob Heinrich Bergmann , founder of the sanatorium and nursing home
- November 17, 1882:
- Paul Johann Friedrich Boysen , (Lord) Mayor, under whom gas lighting and sewer systems were introduced
- August Helmer , City Syndic and close associate of Boysen's as well as Hermann Roemer 's youth and college friend
- Hermann Roemer , senator and auditor at the city court, patron of the preservation of monuments, founder of the museum association as well as the Roemer and Pelizaeus museum
- September 18, 1888 Conrad Wilhelm Hase , Professor of Architecture and Art History in Hanover, with services to the preservation of St. Michael and St. Godehard
- May 17, 1892 Friedrich-Wilhelm Schwemann , entrepreneur, mayor, senator, multiple city representative at the Hanoverian Estates Assembly
- August 3, 1909 Gustav Struckmann , Lord Mayor, did a lot for the renovation of the town hall and the modernization of the urban infrastructure
- November 20, 1911 Wilhelm Pelizaeus , merchant and patron of the arts, who donated his Egyptian collections to the city and financed the expansion of the Roemer Museum
- October 12, 1914 Adolf Bertram , cathedral vicar, cathedral capitular and general vicar in Hildesheim, later Bishop of Breslau and cardinal as well as author of the "History of the Diocese of Hildesheim"
- November 18, 1918 Otto Gerland , police director and author of local and art history studies on Hildesheim art monuments
- July 16, 1928 Max Leeser , director of the Hildesheimer Bank , business promoter, promoter of the city's preservation of monuments and founder of the Katzenbrunnen
- July 3, 1933 Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg "because of their services to the people and the state"
- February 12, 1934 Hanns Kerrl and Hermann Muhs "because of their services to the people and the state"
- March 25, 1950:
- Johannes Heinrich Gebauer , archivist and author of the history of the city of Hildesheim
- Ernst Ehrlicher , Lord Mayor, contributed to the incorporation of Moritzberg and Steuerwald, the connection to the Mittelland Canal and the expansion of the school system
- August 25, 1958 Albin Hunger , short-term mayor with services to the reconstruction of the city
- July 6, 1966 Sir Hans Adolf Krebs , born in Hildesheim, emigrated to England as a Jew in 1933, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 1953
- October 10, 1974 Martin Boyken , Director of the Andreanum and Lord Mayor
- February 14, 1982 Friedrich Nämsch , Lord Mayor
- August 31, 1987 Heinrich Maria Janssen , Bishop of Hildesheim, committed himself to the establishment of the University of Hildesheim and the preservation of the Hildesheim district government
- June 27, 2005:
- Josef Homeyer , Bishop of Hildesheim
- Leonore Auerbach , mayor of many years
- March 5, 2012 Guy Stern , born in Hildesheim, literary scholar of German-Jewish origin
Web links
- List of honorary citizens at the Hildesheim City Archives (source, unless otherwise specified)