List of honorary citizens of Nuremberg

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  Small coat of arms of the city of Nuremberg

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  Large coat of arms of the city of Nuremberg

The city of Nuremberg has granted honorary citizenship to the following people since 1819 .

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

The honorary citizens of the city of Nuremberg

	Surname	Date of birth place of birth	Date of death Place of death	position	Remarks	Award	image
01.	Karl Joseph Count von Drechsel	June 26, 1778 Spindlhof Palace	February 8, 1838 Munich	District President		1819
02.	Gottfried Albrecht Freudel	December 25, 1775 Berolzheim	April 17, 1851 Nuremberg	Government director		1819
03.	Karl Theodor Graf von Pappenheim	March 17, 1771 Pappenheim	August 26, 1853 Munich	Royal Bavarian Feldzeugmeister and adjutant general to the king; last ruling Count of Pappenheim		1823
04th	Karl Ludwig Philipp Freiherr Kiesling von Bergen	August 26, 1763 Saar Werden	January 4, 1843 Munich	Reichsrat		1823
05.	Daniel Gustav von Bezold	January 12, 1783 Rothenburg ob der Tauber	September 22, 1870 Munich	Government Council		1825
06th	Arnold Friedrich von Mieg	January 21, 1778 Heidelberg	January 7, 1842 Frankfurt am Main	District President		1828
07th	Wilhelm Cramer	May 3, 1762 Will	April 10, 1848 Nuremberg	Merchant		1828
08th.	Friedrich Wilhelm von Hoven	March 11, 1759 Stuttgart	February 6, 1838 Nordlingen	Doctor , medical councilor , university professor	Neighbor child and close lifelong friend of Friedrich Schiller	1830	more pictures
09.	Ludwig Prince of Oettingen-Wallerstein	January 31, 1791 Wallerstein	June 22, 1870 Lucerne	Bavarian statesman and prince from the house of Oettingen and art collector		1833	more pictures
10.	Peter Freiherr von Lamotte	March 3, 1765 Mannheim	November 21, 1837 Nuremberg	Lieutenant General		1837
11.	Heinrich Theodor von Kohlhagen	May 10, 1785 Neuenrade	January 28, 1860 Nuremberg	District and City Court Director		1843
12.	Karl Ludwig Roth	May 7, 1790 Stuttgart	July 6, 1868 Untertürkheim	Theologian and rector of the Egidiengymnasium		1843
13.	Wilhelm Bernhard Mönnich	February 4, 1799 Berlin	August 8, 1868 Stuttgart	Rector		1845
14th	Johann Gottfried Eisenmann	May 20, 1795 Würzburg	March 23, 1876 Würzburg	Doctor and writer as well as member of the Paulskirche		1848
15th	Georg Simon Ohm	March 16, 1789 Erlangen	July 6, 1854 Munich	physicist		1850	more pictures
16.	Georg Karl von Seuffert	October 15, 1800 Würzburg	December 28, 1870 Nuremberg	Appeal Court Director		1857
17th	Lothar Freiherr von Faber	June 12, 1817 Unterspitzgarten near Stein (Middle Franconia)	July 26, 1896 Stein (Middle Franconia)	Factory owner, German industrialist		1861	more pictures
18th	August from Kreling	May 23, 1819 Osnabrück	April 22, 1876 Nuremberg	Director of the School of Applied Arts		1869	more pictures
19th	Friedrich Wilhelm Walther von Walderstötten	March 4, 1805 Rothenburg ob der Tauber	September 19, 1889 Munich	Bavarian infantry general , cartographer and member of the Academy of Sciences		1871
20th	Heinrich Army Car	May 4, 1811 Bayreuth	December 5, 1888 Nuremberg	Rector of the Egidiengymnasium and local historian		1878	more pictures
21st	Friedrich Wanderer	September 10, 1840 Munich	October 7, 1910 Munich	Artist and professor at the School of Applied Arts		1888
22nd	Carl Crämer	December 9, 1818 Kleinlangheim	December 31, 1902 Nuremberg	Politician		1888
23.	August from Essenwein	November 2, 1831 Karlsruhe	October 13, 1892 Nuremberg	Architect and director of the Germanic National Museum		1891	more pictures
24.	Christoph von Seiler	May 29, 1822 Nuremberg	October 11, 1904 Nuremberg	Lawyer and Second Mayor of Nuremberg		1893
25th	Julius step	December 24, 1827 Grönenbach	May 16, 1896 Nuremberg	Publishers and Politicians		1894
26th	Christian Rudolf Friedrich Schwemmer	March 29, 1828 Nuremberg	July 30, 1899 Munich	legally qualified magistrate		1898
27.	Friedrich Krafft, Count of Crailsheim	March 15, 1841 Ansbach	February 13, 1926 Munich	Minister of State		1900	more pictures
28.	Ludwig von Gerngros	May 1, 1839 Baiersdorf	October 3, 1916 Nuremberg	Commerce Council		July 30, 1901	more pictures
29	Heinrich Berolzheimer	September 6, 1836 Fürth	April 15, 1906 Nuremberg	Commerce Council		1905	more pictures
30th	Gottlieb von Merkel	June 29, 1835 Nuremberg	October 13, 1921 Nuremberg	Senior Medical Councilor and Hospital Director		1905	more pictures
31.	Ferdinand von Jäger	February 5, 1839 Nuremberg	November 7, 1916 Würzburg	Lawyer and Second Mayor of Nuremberg		1910
32.	Georg Ritter von Schuh	November 17, 1846 Fürth	July 2, 1918 Starnberg	Lord Mayor of Nuremberg		1913
33.	Ernst Mummenhoff	December 22, 1848 Nordwalde	April 25, 1931 Nuremberg	Archive director as well as co-founder and chairman of the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg		1928	more pictures
34.	Oskar von Petri	February 24, 1860 Elberfeld	May 26, 1944 Nuremberg	Engineer, businessman		1930
35.	Paul von Hindenburg	Poznan October 2, 1847	August 2, 1934 Gut Neudeck	President of the empire		1932	more pictures
36.	Martin Treu	December 18, 1871 Haselbach near Schwandorf	November 21, 1952 Nuremberg	Second Mayor from 1919 to 1933 and Mayor of Nuremberg in 1945		1948
37.	August Meier	April 4, 1885 Gernsbach	June 29, 1976 Nuremberg	Voluntary city council	belonged to the city council from 1919 to 1966 with one interruption during the Nazi era; he was made an honorary citizen because of his services to the city administration	April 4, 1965
38.	Joseph E. Drexel	June 6, 1896 Munich	April 13, 1976 Nuremberg	publisher	Editor of the Nürnberger Nachrichten	1976
39.	Kate Strobel	July 23, 1907 Nuremberg	March 26, 1996 Nuremberg	Politician, MdB and MEP	was a member of the German Bundestag and the European Parliament as a member of the SPD. From 1966 to 1969 she was Federal Minister for Health Care and from 1969 to 1972 Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health	1980	more pictures
40.	Max Hintermayr	January 20, 1893 Augsburg	October 4, 1986 Nuremberg	Manufacturer		1980
41.	Hermann Kesten	January 28, 1900 Podwołoczyska	May 3, 1996 Basel	writer		1980	more pictures
42.	Andreas Urschlechter	March 2, 1919 Nuremberg	April 19, 2011 Nuremberg	Lawyer and former mayor of Nuremberg		1987	more pictures
43.	Willy Prölß	September 9, 1930 Nuremberg	March 17, 2014 Nuremberg	Former Mayor of Nuremberg		1997
44.	Oscar Schneider	June 3, 1927 Altenheideck		Politician, Member of the Bundestag	was a member of the German Bundestag as a member of the CSU; from 1982 to 1989 he was Federal Minister for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development	1997	more pictures
45.	Karl Diehl	May 4, 1907 Nuremberg	January 19, 2008 Nuremberg	Entrepreneur		1997
46.	Theo Scholler	June 18, 1917 Nuremberg	June 23, 2004 Nuremberg	Entrepreneur	Co-founder of the Schöller ice cream factory	1997
47.	Heinz Sebiger	March 9, 1923 Nuremberg	August 25, 2016 Nuremberg	Entrepreneur	Founder of the software manufacturer DATEV	1997
48.	Günther Beckstein	November 23, 1943 Hersbruck		Politician	Bavarian Minister of the Interior (1993 to 2007) and Prime Minister (2007 to 2008)	23rd July 2014	more pictures
49.	Renate Schmidt	December 12, 1943 Hanau		Politician, MdB, MdL	Vice-President of the Bundestag (1990 to 1994), Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth (2002 to 2005)	23rd July 2014	more pictures
50.	Bruno Schnell	February 27, 1929 Munich	January 27, 2018 Nuremberg	Entrepreneur, publisher	Publisher of the Nürnberger Nachrichten ( Nürnberger Presse publishing house )	23rd July 2014
51.	Dani Karavan	December 7, 1930 Tel Aviv		internationally renowned sculptor	Artist of the Street of Human Rights , member of the jury of the International Nuremberg Human Rights Prize	October 21, 2018	more pictures

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