List of honorary citizens of Loerrach
The honorary citizenship is the highest award of the Baden-Württemberg district town Loerrach .
Since 1818, 14 people have been granted honorary citizenship. In the course of the incorporation of the communities Brombach , Haagen and Tumringen , the honorary citizenships awarded there were taken over.
Because of the existing honorary citizenship of the painter and poet Hermann Burte , an advocate of the national ideology and supporter of National Socialist ideas, Federal President Theodor Heuss rejected the honorary citizenship of Lörrach.
Note: The listing is done chronologically according to the date of award.
The honorary citizens of the city of Loerrach
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Franz Columban Maier (* 1786; † 1850)
- Grand Ducal District Tax Peraeguator
- Awarded in 1818
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Reinhard Schellenberg (* 1814; † 1890)
- Evangelical dean in Lörrach and senior church councilor in Karlsruhe
- Awarded in 1873
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Oskar Grether (* 1875; † 1929)
- Merchant in Basel, benefactor, pharmacist
- Awarded in Tumringen in 1920
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Karl Friedrich Müller (* 1848; † 1929)
- Mayor of Haagen (1878–1922)
- Awarded in 1922 in Haagen
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Erwin Gugelmeier (born January 15, 1879 in Bühl; † April / May 1945)
- Lord Mayor of the City of Lörrach (1906–1927)
- Awarded in 1927
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Walter Köhler (born September 30, 1897 in Weinheim; † January 9, 1989 in Weinheim)
- Prime Minister of Baden
- Awarded in 1933 in Haagen
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Adolf Ohm (* 1869; † 1937)
- Farmer and Mayor
- Awarded in 1935 in Tumringen
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Ernst Schultz (* 1869; † 1937)
- Sparkasse director, founder of the Lörracher Heimatmuseum and its director (1932–1951)
- Awarded in 1936
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Hermann Burte (born February 15, 1879 in Maulburg; † March 21, 1960 in Lörrach)
- Painter and poet
- Awarded in 1939
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Max Laeuger (born September 30, 1864 in Lörrach; † December 12, 1952 in Lörrach)
- Architect, painter, ceramist and art teacher
- Awarded in 1939
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Franz Ehret (* 1868; † 1951)
- Mayor of Brombach (1919–1933 and 1945–1946)
- Awarded in 1948 in Brombach
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Ernst Rösch (* 1867; † 1953)
- Member of the state parliament in the Weimar Republic
- Awarded in 1948 in Haagen
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Wilhelm Schöpflin (* 1881; † 1952)
- Manufacturer, promoter of art and culture
- Awarded in 1951 in Haagen
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Julius Wilhelm (* 1873; † 1961)
- Monument curator of the district of Loerrach
- Awarded in 1953
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Hans Schöpflin (* 1906; † 1985)
- Manufacturer and promoter of art
- Awarded in 1956 in Haagen
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Gaston Perrot (* 1898; † 1980)
- Mayor of the city of Sens, founder of the city partnership between Sens and Lörrach
- Awarded in 1968
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Hans Stössel (* 1893; † 1977)
- KBC General Manager
- Awarded in 1963
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Albert Scheer (* 1885; † 1977)
- Baker, local councilor in Haagen (1919–1933 and 1945–1965), deputy mayor of the Haagen community
- Awarded in 1965 in Haagen
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Adolf Strübe (* 1881; † 1973)
- Painter and sculptor
- Awarded in 1971
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Etienne Braun (* 1925)
- Lord Mayor of the City of Sens
- Awarded in 1976
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Egon Hugenschmidt (born June 24, 1925 in Lörrach-Stetten; † April 11, 2010)
- Lord Mayor of the City of Lörrach (1960–1984)
- Awarded 1983
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Hans Unterseh (* 1930; † 2006)
- KBC General Manager
- Awarded in 1996
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Helmut Bürgel (* 1951)
- Cultural advisor with cultural department and founder of the Voices Festival
- Awarded in 2012
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Gudrun Today-Bluhm (* 1957)
- Lord Mayor of Lörrach (1995-2014)
- Awarded in 2014
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Rainer Offergeld (* 1937)
- Lord Mayor of Lörrach (1978–1982)
- Award ceremony 2018