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 .

1. December 12, 1834 Georg August Kuckuck , city commander of Hildesheim and founder of the Hildesheim deaf-mute institution
2. March 13, 1835 Franz August Hagemann , director of the Hildesheim law firm
3. ? Konrad Rudolf Hoppenstedt , auditor in the tax forest domain administration, master builder
4. November 25, 1845 Carl von Beaulieu-Marconnay , head forest master
5. May 24, 1854 Gottlob Heinrich Bergmann , founder of the sanatorium and nursing home
6. 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

7. 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
8. May 17, 1892 Friedrich-Wilhelm Schwemann , entrepreneur, mayor, senator, multiple city representative at the Hanoverian Estates Assembly
9. August 3, 1909 Gustav Struckmann , Lord Mayor, did a lot for the renovation of the town hall and the modernization of the urban infrastructure
10. 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
11. 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"
12. November 18, 1918 Otto Gerland , police director and author of local and art history studies on Hildesheim art monuments
13. 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
14. July 3, 1933 Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg "because of their services to the people and the state"
15. February 12, 1934 Hanns Kerrl and Hermann Muhs "because of their services to the people and the state"
16. 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

17. August 25, 1958 Albin Hunger , short-term mayor with services to the reconstruction of the city
18. 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
19. October 10, 1974 Martin Boyken , Director of the Andreanum and Lord Mayor
20. February 14, 1982 Friedrich Nämsch , Lord Mayor
21. 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
22. June 27, 2005:

    • Josef Homeyer , Bishop of Hildesheim
    • Leonore Auerbach , mayor of many years

23. 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)