List of honorary citizens of Mainz
Since 1831, the city of Mainz has awarded the highest distinction, honorary citizenship , 49 times to people who have rendered outstanding services to them. Freedom of citizenship is legally stipulated in Paragraph 23 of the municipal code of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In one case the honorary citizenship was revoked.
Living honorary citizens of the suburbs of the city of Mainz became honorary citizens of Mainz when it was incorporated.
- (As of February 2018)
Honorary citizens of Mainz in the order in which they were granted honorary citizenship:
- 1831 : Georg Moller , government architect (first honorary citizen)
- 1834 : Emmanuel von Mensdorff-Pouilly , Vice-Governor of the Federal Fortress of Mainz
- 1835 : Bertel Thorvaldsen , artist and sculptor, creator of the Gutenberg monument
- 1839 : Wilhelm von Müffling called Weiss , Vice-Governor of the Federal Fortress of Mainz
- 1839 : Friedrich Wilhelm Karl of Prussia , Vice Governor of the Federal Fortress of Mainz
- 1856 : Reinhard Carl Friedrich von Dalwigk , Hessian Territorial Commissioner in the Mainz Federal Fortress
- 1864 : Franz Xaver von Paumgartten , Vice-Governor of the Federal Fortress of Mainz
- 1871 : Woldemar von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg , Vice-Governor of the Federal Fortress Mainz, Governor of the Prussian Fortress Mainz
- 1875 : Leopold Hermann von Boyen , governor of the Prussian fortress Mainz
- 1877 : Philipp Veit , painter, creator of the Mainz cathedral pictures
- 1878 : Karl Georg Friedrich Schmitt , Protestant theologian, superintendent of the province of Rheinhessen and prelate of the Protestant regional church
- 1883 : Wilhelm von Woyna , governor of the Prussian fortress in Mainz
- 1886 : Edmund Gedult von Jungsfeld , businessman, honorary director of the Mainz Sparkasse
- 1891 : Jakob Hochgesand , doctor, head of the St. Rochus Hospital
- 1891 : Friedrich Küchler , Provincial Director of the Province of Rheinhessen
- 1898 : Carl Rothe , Provincial Director of the Province of Rheinhessen, Minister of State / Minister of the Interior in the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt
- 1905 : Stefan Karl Michel , city, local and economic politician, a. a. Vice President of the German Trading Conference
- 1905 : Hermann Reinach , city politician, long-time alderman of the city of Mainz
- 1907 : Karl Georg Bockenheimer , district judge, local politician, writer and historian
- 1908 : Max von Gagern , Provincial Director of the Province of Rheinhessen
- 1915 : Ferdinand Kuhn , Grand Ducal Hessian Building Councilor, Mayor of the city
- 1927 : Heinrich Ludwig Müller , pediatrician, city politician and long-time alderman of the city of Mainz
- 1931 : Karl Külb , doctor, Lord Mayor of Mainz
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1933 :
Adolf Hitler, Reich Chancellor, formally revoked in 2002 - 1934 : Heinrich Schrohe , high school teacher and local researcher
- 1936 : Ernst Neeb , archivist, historian and promoter of monument protection in Mainz
- 1951 : Wilhelm Christ , local politician, founder of the housing company in Mainz
- 1955 : Alfred Freitag , local politician, founder of the workers' welfare in Mainz
- 1957 : Aloys Ruppel , historian, director of the Mainz City Library , the City Archives and the Gutenberg Museum , Gutenberg researcher
- 1962 : Carl Zuckmayer , writer
- 1962 : Adam Gottron , theologian and historian of church music
- 1964 : Félix Kir , Catholic priest, Lord Mayor of the Mainz twin town Dijon
- 1965 : Peter Altmeier , first Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, co-founder of the second German television
- 1965 : Hermann Reifenberg , Catholic pastor (honorary citizen of Ebersheim )
- 1969 : Karl Preller , Rector of the parent house of the Sisters of Divine Providence in Finthen (honorary citizen of Finthen)
- 1969 : Heinrich Dreibus , local politician and, until the incorporation, mayor of Hechtsheim (honorary citizen of Hechtsheim)
- 1970 : Ludwig Strecker , publisher, head of the music publishing house Schott
- 1972 : Fritz Straßmann , chemist, university professor, co-discoverer of nuclear fission in uranium
- 1975 : Hermann Cardinal Volk , Bishop of Mainz
- 1979 : Paul Distelhut , local politician
- 1981 : Marc Chagall , painter, designed the windows named after him in St. Stephan
- 1981 : Anna Seghers , born as Netty Reiling in Mainz, writer
- 1983 : Karl Holzamer , founding director of ZDF
- 1984 : Erich Schott , industrialist, head of the Schott & Gen. glass works.
- 1989 : Jockel Fuchs , Lord Mayor
- 2001 : Karl Cardinal Lehmann , Bishop of Mainz
- 2004 : Karl Delorme , local politician and Member of the Bundestag
- 2005 : Klaus Mayer , Catholic pastor (won Marc Chagall as designer of the windows of St. Stephan)
- 2018 : Margit Sponheimer , Fastnachterin
On August 21, 2013, Mayor Michael Ebling awarded Anton, Berti, Conny, Det, Edi and Fritzchen the "Mainzelmännchen Honorary Dignity" . According to the city administration, this is a title specially created for the Mainzelmännchen . Because formally, honorary citizenship can only be awarded to living persons.
See also
- List of Mainz personalities
- Johannes Gutenberg plaque from the city of Mainz
- Ring of Honor of the City of Mainz
- Roman imperial medallion of the city of Mainz
literature
- Wolfgang Balzer: Mainz. Personalities of the city's history . Volume 1: Honorary citizens of Mainz, princes of Mainz, military personalities, Mainz mayors. Kügler, Ingelheim 1985, ISBN 3-924124-01-9 .
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Special features (for example being granted honorary citizenship by a formerly independent municipality that was later incorporated into Mainz) are not discussed here.
- ↑ §23 GemO
- ↑ Mainz and Simmern no longer include Adolf Hitler in the list of honorary citizens in the epd-News article from December 12, 2002 at http://web.archive.org
- ↑ Mainzelmännchen are "honorary citizens" of the city of Mainz focus.de with material from dpa from August 21, 2013
- ↑ Mainz Mainzelmännchen are "honorary citizens" RP Online from August 21, 2013
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Mainzelmännchen are now honorary citizens of Mainz ) ffh.de from August 21, 2013