List of honorary citizens of Hoyerswerda

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The honorary citizenship is the highest honor of the city of Hoyerswerda . It honors people who have made a special contribution to the city. The city council decides on the award. Since 1906, nine people have been made honorary citizens.

Note: The listing is done chronologically according to the date of award.

The honorary citizens of the city of Hoyerswerda

  1. Louis Escher (December 8, 1834 - January 31, 1915)
    meritorious alderman of the city council
    Granting of honorary citizenship on the basis of the city council resolution of October 5, 1906
    After his death, Escher's children set up an Escher Associate Foundation , the interest income of which was to be distributed to the needy every year on their father's birthday. (notarized on January 31, 1917)
  2. Alwin Stein (born December 25, 1851 in Hamburg, † April 22, 1936 in Halle)
    City councilor and railway operations engineer
    Awarded honorary citizenship on the basis of the city council resolution of June 9, 1908
    From 1885 until his transfer in 1908, Alwin Stein was the head of the Hoyerswerdaer Eisenbahn-Betriebswerkstätten. The Steinstrasse leading to the train station was named after him. Since January 2010, the former railroad workers' clubhouse , now privately owned, also bears his name.
  3. Wilhelm Pieck (born January 3, 1876 in Guben, † September 7, 1960 in Berlin)
    Co-founder and chairman of the SED and first and only President after the founding of the GDR
    Awarded on February 26, 1946
    In the winter of 1945/46, buddies from the Werminghoff lignite mine in Knappenrode gave Pieck two wagons of coal. He passed this donation on to the city of Berlin in order to heat children's homes. On February 26, 1946, Pieck traveled personally to Hoyerswerda to thank his friends in the "Kastanienhof" restaurant. On the occasion of this visit, the city council of Pieck decided to present the honorary citizenship letter.
    Johannes Dieckmann
  4. Johannes Dieckmann (born January 19, 1893 in Fischerhude near Bremen; † February 22, 1969 in Berlin)
    President of the People's Chamber of the GDR
    Awarded on February 3, 1950
    Dieckmann was a co-founder of the LDPD and from 1948 Minister of Justice and Deputy Prime Minister of Saxony. From 1949 he was President of the People's Chamber of the GDR. The city council of Hoyerswerda decided on February 3, 1950 to give Dieckmann honorary citizenship to the city.
  5. Otto Damerau (born April 15, 1877 in Bad Flinsberg; † March 2, 1961)
    Soil monument curator and curator of the local history museum
    Awarded in August 1953
    From 1914 on, Damerau had secured an extensive collection of ceramics from the Bronze Age in numerous rescue ditches in the city as a voluntary ground monument conservator. In 1924 he was a co-founder of the Hoyerswerda Society for Friends of Homeland. At his instigation, a local history museum was set up in 1932, and he took care of it. After the war he supported the rebuilding of the museum.
  6. Ekaterina Ponomarjowa (* 1887; † not known)
    Soldier mother
    Awarded on May 7, 1975
    Ponomarjowa was the mother of a Russian soldier who died in April 1945 in the battle for Hoyerswerda. On April 25, 1973, at the age of 86, she arrived at the Hoyerswerda train station. With a piece of paper in German in her hand, she tried to find the grave of her youngest son. When she found it in the Hoyerswerda Grove of Honor, she took earth from the resting place home with her. In sympathy with the fate of Ponomarjowa, the city council granted her honorary citizenship on her second visit on May 7, 1975.
    Konrad Zuse
  7. Konrad Zuse (born June 22, 1910 in Berlin; † December 18, 1995 in Hünfeld)
    Entrepreneur and inventor of the computer
    Awarded on September 19, 1995
    Zuse lived for several years in his youth as the son of a post office clerk in Hoyerswerda and passed his Abitur there in 1928 at the Real Reform Gymnasium. Shortly before Zuse's death, the city of Hoyerswerda honored him with the award of honorary citizenship.
  8. Jürgen von Woyski (born March 23, 1929 in Stolp; † May 30, 2000 in Dresden)
    sculptor
    Awarded on July 15, 1998
    Woyski came to the city on September 1, 1955, one day after the foundation stone was laid for the new Hoyerswerda, and lived here until 1998. During this time, he designed the city's public space with his works. His work as a sculptor was known far beyond the city limits.
  9. Friedhart Vogel (born March 1, 1941 in Görlitz)
    Pastor
    Awarded on October 30, 2010
    Vogel acted as a former superintendent of the Hoyerswerda parish of the Evangelical Church at the time of the turnaround at the Hoyerswerda district round table . After learning of the xenophobic riots in Hoyerswerda in front of the asylum seekers' home on Thomas-Müntzer-Strasse, he went straight to the scene. Above all, he helped to bring mothers and children out of the home to safety and at the same time was able to have a calming effect on the angry population groups. Friedhart Vogel has also been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1996).

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ Neue Hoyerswerdaer Geschichtshefte, No. 12 (2009), published by the Hoyerswerda city administration, page 25
  2. ↑ Lausitzer Rundschau, online edition Hoyerswerda, from August 29, 2009 ( memento of the original from December 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lr-online.de
  3. ↑ Neue Hoyerswerdaer Geschichtshefte, No. 12 (2009), published by the city administration of Hoyerswerda, page 26
  4. ↑ Lausitzer Rundschau, online edition Hoyerswerda, from January 5, 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.lr-online.de  
  5. ↑ The man who created a museum. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . March 2, 2011
  6. ↑ City council decides to honor Friedhart Vogel Lausitzer Rundschau, online edition Hoyerswerda, from October 30, 2010
  7. ^ Dignity of honorary citizen for Friedhart Vogel Lausitzer Rundschau, online edition Hoyerswerda, from September 21, 2010 ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lr-online.de