List of honorary citizens of Münster
The city of Münster has granted the following people honorary citizenship. Listed chronologically according to the award:
- 1836: Franz Xaver Albert Vahlkampf , Vice President of the Government in Münster
- 1845: Andreas Caspar Giese, Consul General
- 1850: Wilhelm Achtermann , sculptor
- 1857: Paulus Melchers , bishop and cardinal
- 1863: Wilhelm Salzenberg , secret senior building officer
- 1864: Wilhelm von und zur Mühlen, Privy Chief Justice
- 1871: Anton Carl Welter , Privy Senior Justice Councilor and Vice President of the Paderborn Court of Appeal
- 1891: Hermann Josef Kappen, city dean
- 1897: Clemens Heereman von Zuydwyck , member of the Reichstag and Landtag
- 1905: Adolf Kleimann , gardener owner
- 1906: Friedrich Althoff , Ministerial Director
- 1906: Konrad von Studt , Minister of State
- 1914: Johann Wilhelm Hittorf , university professor and secret councilor
- 1915: Alexander von Kluck , Colonel General
- 1924: Ludwig Robert, businessman and city councilor
- 1932: Heinrich Brüning , Reich Chancellor 1930–32
- 1933: Paul von Hindenburg , Field Marshal General and President
- 1933: Adolf Hitler , dictator during the Nazi era (revoked 1945)
- 1938: Alfred Rosenberg , ideologue and politician of National Socialism (withdrawn in 1945)
- 1946: Clemens August Graf von Galen , bishop and cardinal
- 1973: Heinrich Austermann , City Director
- 1986: Reiner Klimke , lawyer and notary, Olympic and world champion in dressage