List of honorary citizens of Mainz

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Image and text from the Federal Archives : Anna Seghers was awarded honorary citizenship of the city of Mainz. On this occasion, Klaus Höpcke , Deputy Minister for Culture of the GDR, was in her Berlin apartment (from right to left) ; Dr. Harder , President of Gutenberg University Mainz; Mayor Dr. Keim , Klaus Bölling , Head of the Permanent Mission of the FRG in the GDR, Weyel (SPD parliamentary group leader in Mainz); Lord Mayor Jockel Fuchs (standing), Dr. Günter Storch (FDP parliamentary group leader in Mainz), Ms. Fuchs and other personalities were present. (1981)

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 In one case the honorary citizenship was revoked.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:

  1. 1831 : Georg Moller , government architect (first honorary citizen)
  2. 1834 : Emmanuel von Mensdorff-Pouilly , Vice-Governor of the Federal Fortress of Mainz
  3. 1835 : Bertel Thorvaldsen , artist and sculptor, creator of the Gutenberg monument
  4. 1839 : Wilhelm von Müffling called Weiss , Vice-Governor of the Federal Fortress of Mainz
  5. 1839 : Friedrich Wilhelm Karl of Prussia , Vice Governor of the Federal Fortress of Mainz
  6. 1856 : Reinhard Carl Friedrich von Dalwigk , Hessian Territorial Commissioner in the Mainz Federal Fortress
  7. 1864 : Franz Xaver von Paumgartten , Vice-Governor of the Federal Fortress of Mainz
  8. 1871 : Woldemar von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg , Vice-Governor of the Federal Fortress Mainz, Governor of the Prussian Fortress Mainz
  9. 1875 : Leopold Hermann von Boyen , governor of the Prussian fortress Mainz
  10. 1877 : Philipp Veit , painter, creator of the Mainz cathedral pictures
  11. 1878 : Karl Georg Friedrich Schmitt , Protestant theologian, superintendent of the province of Rheinhessen and prelate of the Protestant regional church
  12. 1883 : Wilhelm von Woyna , governor of the Prussian fortress in Mainz
  13. 1886 : Edmund Gedult von Jungsfeld , businessman, honorary director of the Mainz Sparkasse
  14. 1891 : Jakob Hochgesand , doctor, head of the St. Rochus Hospital
  15. 1891 : Friedrich Küchler , Provincial Director of the Province of Rheinhessen
  16. 1898 : Carl Rothe , Provincial Director of the Province of Rheinhessen, Minister of State / Minister of the Interior in the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt
  17. 1905 : Stefan Karl Michel , city, local and economic politician, a. a. Vice President of the German Trading Conference
  18. 1905 : Hermann Reinach , city politician, long-time alderman of the city of Mainz
  19. 1907 : Karl Georg Bockenheimer , district judge, local politician, writer and historian
  20. 1908 : Max von Gagern , Provincial Director of the Province of Rheinhessen
  21. 1915 : Ferdinand Kuhn , Grand Ducal Hessian Building Councilor, Mayor of the city
  22. 1927 : Heinrich Ludwig Müller , pediatrician, city politician and long-time alderman of the city of Mainz
  23. 1931 : Karl Külb , doctor, Lord Mayor of Mainz
  24. 1933 : Adolf Hitler , Reich Chancellor, formally revoked in 2002
  25. 1934 : Heinrich Schrohe , high school teacher and local researcher
  26. 1936 : Ernst Neeb , archivist, historian and promoter of monument protection in Mainz
  27. 1951 : Wilhelm Christ , local politician, founder of the housing company in Mainz
  28. 1955 : Alfred Freitag , local politician, founder of the workers' welfare in Mainz
  29. 1957 : Aloys Ruppel , historian, director of the Mainz City Library , the City Archives and the Gutenberg Museum , Gutenberg researcher
  30. 1962 : Carl Zuckmayer , writer
  31. 1962 : Adam Gottron , theologian and historian of church music
  32. 1964 : Félix Kir , Catholic priest, Lord Mayor of the Mainz twin town Dijon
  33. 1965 : Peter Altmeier , first Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, co-founder of the second German television
  34. 1965 : Hermann Reifenberg , Catholic pastor (honorary citizen of Ebersheim )
  35. 1969 : Karl Preller , Rector of the parent house of the Sisters of Divine Providence in Finthen (honorary citizen of Finthen)
  36. 1969 : Heinrich Dreibus , local politician and, until the incorporation, mayor of Hechtsheim (honorary citizen of Hechtsheim)
  37. 1970 : Ludwig Strecker , publisher, head of the music publishing house Schott
  38. 1972 : Fritz Straßmann , chemist, university professor, co-discoverer of nuclear fission in uranium
  39. 1975 : Hermann Cardinal Volk , Bishop of Mainz
  40. 1979 : Paul Distelhut , local politician
  41. 1981 : Marc Chagall , painter, designed the windows named after him in St. Stephan
  42. 1981 : Anna Seghers , born as Netty Reiling in Mainz, writer
  43. 1983 : Karl Holzamer , founding director of ZDF
  44. 1984 : Erich Schott , industrialist, head of the Schott & Gen. glass works.
  45. 1989 : Jockel Fuchs , Lord Mayor
  46. 2001 : Karl Cardinal Lehmann , Bishop of Mainz
  47. 2004 : Karl Delorme , local politician and Member of the Bundestag
  48. 2005 : Klaus Mayer , Catholic pastor (won Marc Chagall as designer of the windows of St. Stephan)
  49. 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

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

  1. ↑ Special features (for example being granted honorary citizenship by a formerly independent municipality that was later incorporated into Mainz) are not discussed here.
  2. ↑ §23 GemO
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ Mainzelmännchen are "honorary citizens" of the city of Mainz focus.de with material from dpa from August 21, 2013
  5. ↑ Mainz Mainzelmännchen are "honorary citizens" RP Online from August 21, 2013
  6. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Mainzelmännchen are now honorary citizens of Mainz ) ffh.de from August 21, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ffh.de