List of honorary citizens of Meiningen
The honorary citizenship is the highest distinction that the city of Meiningen bestows. The mayor of the city awards it by resolution of the city council to personalities who have made a special contribution to the city or at other levels.
Since 1836 the following 21 people have been made honorary citizens of Meiningen.
The list is in the chronological order of the award.
The honorary citizens of the city of Meiningen
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Bodo von Mauderode (1791–1882)
- Officer and Commander of the Residence
- Awarded: 1836
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Albert von Vahlkampf (1799-1858)
- Chief President of the State Government, Prime Minister of Saxony-Meiningen
- Awarded: 1838
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Moritz Seebeck (1805-1884)
- Consistorial councilor and educator of the Hereditary Prince and later Duke Georg II, street naming
- Awarded: 1842
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Constantin Ackermann (1799–1877)
- Theologian, court preacher and general superintendent, editor of a hymn and prayer book in 1862
- Awarded: 1842
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Edmund Hermann Fischer (1802-1882)
- Dr. phil, Privy Councilor and High School Director
- Awarded: 1879
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Rudolf von Ziller (1832–1912)
- Lord Mayor and Minister of State, honorary doctorate from the University of Jena, street name
- Awarded: 1882
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Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898)
- Reich Chancellor, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, street naming
- Awarded: 1885
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Anton Emmrich (1820-1897)
- Dr. phil, Privy Councilor, geologist, director and teacher at the Meiningen secondary school , street naming
- Awarded: 1896
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Wilhelm Bießmann (1832–1907)
- Secret government council
- Awarded: 1901
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Adolf Braun (1847-1914)
- Dr., lawyer and director of Deutsche Hypothekenbank . With the Panoramaweg he had a popular hiking and walking path laid out in the east of the city
- Awarded: 1902
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Karl Schaubach (1833–1906)
- Theologian, court preacher, “Father of the Poor” in Meiningen through commitment, street naming
- Awarded: 1906
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Eduard Fritze (1849–1926)
- Dr., architect and bridge and hydraulic engineer, senior building officer in the ducal government. Built many buildings in Meiningen, including the famous Henneberger Haus (1894). Politically, he was a member of the Thuringian state parliament for Meiningen from 1921 to 1924, naming the street
- Awarded: 1911
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Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934)
- Reich President and Field Marshal General , on the occasion of his 70th birthday
- Awarded: 1917
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Karl Schaller (1846–1922)
- Lord Mayor and Minister of State, street naming
- Awarded: 1917
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Georg Eberhard Waldeck (1858–1942)
- Kaufmann, council member, commitment to the poorer population during the First World War
- Awarded: 1922
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Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
- Dictator of the German Empire
- Awarded: 1933, revoked in 1946
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Ottomar Güntzel (1880–1959)
- well-known Meiningen music director and choir director, made a contribution to the establishment of the Max Reger Archive .
- Awarded: 1956
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Fritz Diez (1901–1979)
- Actor, director and theater manager. Among other things, he directed the Meiningen Theater from 1947 to 1954 and played a leading role in the film epic Liberation . There, as in other films, he played the character Adolf Hitler.
- Awarded: 1979
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Gerhard Höhlein (1928–1985)
- Graduate agronomist, district administrator (chairman of the district council) from Meiningen district from 1966 to 1985
- Awarded: 1985
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Paul Oestreicher (born September 29, 1931 in Meiningen)
- Dr., was canon and head of the Reconciliation Center of Coventry Cathedral in England and has received the Federal Cross of Merit, the Medal of Honor of the City of Coventry and the Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony
- Awarded: 1995
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Alfred Büchner (1896–1997)
- Kaufmann, services to the listed Büchnersches Hinterhaus and mediator of Meiningen's history
- Awarded: 1996
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The embarrassing honorary citizen: First with pride, then with shame , in: Meininger Tageblatt , January 8, 2018, p. 11, online: insuedthueringen.de (with illustration of the award certificate)