List of honorary citizens of Lübeck

The Hanseatic City of Lübeck has granted honorary citizenship to 23 people since 1835 and, through incorporation, has added two more from the Baltic Sea resort of Travemünde, which was previously an independent municipality in the Lübeck state territory . Travemünde was incorporated into the Hanseatic City of Lübeck as a municipality on April 1, 1913.

During the National Socialist era , one and three Nazi politicians were made honorary citizens in 1933. This honorary citizenships were by resolution of the citizenship revoked on 20 June 1946th

The honorary citizens of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck after the year of award

Name and dates of life	Year of award	Special features and comments
James Colquhoun (1780–1855)	1835	Consul General of the Hanseatic Cities in London and Stalemaster
Georg Michael Gramlich (1795–1880)	1838	Diplomat and chargé d'affaires of the Hanseatic cities in Caracas
August Friedrich Bloch (1780–1866)	1850	Chairman of the General Directorate of Royal Maritime Trade ; he placed the bonds for the construction of the Lübeck-Büchener railway for Lübeck .
Per Gustav Nylén (1793–1870)	1862	Swedish ship captain
Vincent Rumpff (1789–1867)	1863	Minister-resident of the four Free Cities at the French Court in Paris. Owner of the Lübeck commemorative coin Bene Merenti (1844).
Emanuel Geibel (1815-1884)	1868	Poet and translator, received the monument on Geibelplatz
Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898)	1871	Chancellor. Stand at Lindenplatz and Bismarckstrasse in the St. Jürgen district
Helmuth Karl Bernhard Count von Moltke (1800-1891)	1871	Field Marshal General, Moltkestrasse , Moltkeplatz and Moltkebrücke over the Wakenitz were named after him. He grew up as a child in Lübeck (1803-1809).
Andreas Conrad Leyding (1793–1877)	1876 in Travemünde
Johann Heinrich Thöl (1807-1884)	1879	Privy Councilor of Justice and Professor of Law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen
Hermann Fehling (1842–1907)	1890 in Travemünde	Merchant and Austrian honorary consul in Lübeck. In 1908 a memorial stone was placed for him in Lübeck-Travemünde. Owner of the Lübeck commemorative coin Bene Merenti. Fehlingstrasse in Travemünde is named after him.
Alfred von Waldersee (1832–1904)	1898	Generalfeldmarschall, after him the Walderseekaserne, the Walderseestrasse and the Walderseebrücke over the Wakenitz were named.
Paul von Beneckendorff and Hindenburg (1847–1934)	1917	Field Marshal General, later President of the Weimar Republic , after him the Hindenburgplatz in the Lübeck-St. Gertrud named. Hindenburgplatz is renamed, honorary citizenship is checked.
Emil Ferdinand Fehling (1847–1927)	1927	Lübeck mayor and city historian. Director of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities . Owner of the Lübeck commemorative coin Bene Merenti (1917).
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)	1933, revoked in 1946	Chancellor
Wilhelm Frick (1877-1946)	1937, revoked in 1946	Reich Minister of the Interior
Hermann Göring (1893–1946)	1937, revoked in 1946	Prussian Prime Minister
Alfred Rosenberg (1893–1946)	1937, revoked in 1946	Reichsleiter of the NSDAP
Carl Jacob Burckhardt (1891–1974)	1950	Swiss diplomat and IRK president. He saved Lübeck from further air raids during World War II . The Carl-Jacob-Burckhardt-Gymnasium is named after him.
Georg Kalkbrenner (1875–1956)	1951, revoked in 2015	Lübeck Senator for Finance. Kalkbrennerstraße in the St. Jürgen district is named after him. Owner of the Lübeck commemorative coin Bene Merenti. In 2015, Kalkbrenner's honorary citizenship was revoked.
Thomas Mann (1875–1955)	1955	As a writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature , he set Lübeck a world literary monument with the novel Buddenbrooks: Fall of a Family . His monument is at the Beckergrube .
Willy Brandt (1913–1992)	1972	Federal Chancellor and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971. Willy-Brandt-Allee on the Wall Peninsula was named after him. The Willy-Brandt-Haus is located on Königstrasse .
Rodolfo Groth (1881–1985)	1982	Overseas merchant and patron. Rudolf-Groth-Straße at the Gate of Hope is named after him.
Heinrich Dräger (1898–1986)	1982	Owner of the Drägerwerk and patron; Founder of the Dräger Foundation . The Drägerhaus Museum, an extension of the Behnhaus Museum, is named after him.
Felix F. Carlebach (1911-2008)	1987	Rabbi in Manchester from Lübeck . The Carlebach Park in the new Lübeck university district was named after the entire Carlebach family of rabbis.
Hans Blumenberg (1920–1996)	2006	German professor of philosophy from Lübeck . A memorial plaque was placed in the entrance area of his birthplace in Lübeck.