List of honorary citizens of Mindelheim

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Coat of arms of the city of Mindelheim

The honorary citizenship is the highest honor that the city Mindelheim awarded to. Since 1924 people have been made honorary citizens on the basis of the Bavarian municipal code for very special services to the city and its people. The honorary citizenship expires with death, so there is currently only one honorary citizen of Mindelheim.

The honorary citizens of the city of Mindelheim

  1. Olli Hirle (* 1929)
    Olli Hirle has been setting up the nativity scene in the Jesuit church for decades, giving guided tours of the city, cultivating the Mindelheim dialect and being an original from Mindelheim.
    Date of award unknown

The former honorary citizens of the city of Mindelheim

Note: The listing is done chronologically according to the date of award.

  1. Martin Karg (1852-1932)
    Head teacher
    Awarded on December 29, 1924
  2. Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
    Artist, politician, chairman of the NSDAP, Reich Chancellor, dictator, criminal against humanity
    Awarded on March 25, 1933
    A few weeks after his so-called "seizure of power", Hitler was made an honorary citizen of the city. Since every community inevitably had a Nazi mayor during the Nazi dictatorship, Hitler was made an honorary citizen in numerous German cities. Since his honorary citizenship expires with death, Adolf Hitler has not been an honorary citizen of the city of Mindelheim since 1945. Only a living person can be an honorary citizen, since honorary citizenship presupposes the legal capacity of the person to be honored.
    In 1946, the clocks were also set to zero in Mindelheim and the streets and squares that were named after Nazi leaders were renamed. The Mindelheim city council first distanced itself from being granted honorary citizenship to Hitler in 2015.
    The city of Mindelheim also maintains partnerships with cities in France, England, Spain, Italy, Tyrol and South Tyrol. Mindelheim was also one of the first cities in Bavaria to enter into a city partnership with a French city in 1961 and to receive an award from the European Union in recognition of its services to international understanding in Europe.
    In addition to the memorial plaque on the crypt chapel, which commemorates the Liebschütz family, so-called “stumbling blocks” were laid in 2015 for the Jews murdered during the Nazi era. In front of the victims' last self-chosen place of residence, brass memorial plaques were placed in the sidewalk. The passer-by "stumbles" over these plates and remembers the bad fate that befell the families.
  3. Paul von Hindenburg
    Field Marshal General , member of the Supreme Army Command in World War I, second Reich President of the Weimar Republic
    Awarded on March 25, 1933
  4. Walther Darré (1895–1953)
    German agricultural politician, writer, SS functionary, Reich Minister of Food
    Honorary citizen from November 1933 to 1949 for his services to the establishment of the South German Farmer's Leader School
    due to the conviction in the Nuremberg trials, presumably loss of honorary citizenship due to the Control Council Directive No. 38
  5. Friedrich Lang (1858–1938)
    Head teacher
    Date of award unknown
    Mindelheim owes its local museum to him.
  6. Franz Krach (born October 25, 1886; † unknown)
    mayor
    Awarded on October 25, 1961
    Krach had been mayor of Mindelheim since 1945 and a member of the district council since 1949. On the occasion of his 75th birthday, he was made an honorary citizen for his great services to the city and the Allgäu. In 1966 he was made an honorary citizen of Bourg-de-Péage because of his services to the town twinning.
  7. Henri Durand († 2010)
    mayor
    Date of award unknown
    Durand was mayor of the French partner municipality Bourg-de-Péage.
  8. Arthur Maximilian Miller (June 16, 1901 - February 18, 1992)
    writer
    Date of award unknown
  9. Erwin Holzbaur (born April 8, 1927 - † September 19, 2010)
    Teacher, home curator, painter and local politician
    Date of award unknown

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  • Karlheinz Spielmann: Honorary Citizen and Honors in the Federal Republic. 1965
  • Berndt Michael Linker: Mindelheim in the 20th century 2014
  1. ↑ http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/mindelheim/Adolf-Hitler-ist-noch-immer-Ehrenbuerger-von-Mindelheim-id33812372.html
  2. ↑ http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/mindelheim/Grenzenloses-Europa-in-Mindelheim-id15839356.html