List of honorary citizens of Neustadt an der Aisch

The honorary citizenship is the highest honor that the city of Neustadt adAisch can bestow. Honorary citizens are publicly welcomed at events. When they die, they will be remembered at the grave and at a meeting of the city council. In addition, the city awards the Golden Citizen Medal.

Since 1909 the following people have been made honorary citizens:

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

The honorary citizens of the city of Neustadt adAisch

1. Georg Vogel (October 8, 1861 - November 9, 1933)

   Former Mayor

   Awarded on April 14, 1909

   Vogel was mayor from 1898 to 1912 and a member of the Bavarian state parliament . He was honored for his outstanding services to the good of the city.

2. Adolf Hitler (born April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, † April 30, 1945 in Berlin)

   Braunschweig government councilor and chairman of the NSDAP

   Awarded on March 7th, 1932 (as "Leader of the German Freedom Movement"), formally revoked by a city council resolution on February 5th, 1946

3. Paul von Hindenburg (born October 2, 1847 in Posen, † August 2, 1934 at Gut Neudeck)

   President of the empire. On July 13, 1917, he had a short stay in Neustadt as Field Marshal General with Erich Ludendorff . In 1925 his campaign speech, which was broadcast on the radio, was also broadcast in the Neustädter Löwensaal .

   Awarded on March 30, 1933

4. Julius Streicher (born February 12, 1885 in Fleinhausen, † October 16, 1946 in Nuremberg)

   Gauleiter of the NSDAP in Franconia

   Awarded (for reasons that do not comply with the award regulations) on April 24, 1933, formally revoked by a city council resolution on February 5, 1946

5. Andreas Schildknecht (born October 3, 1861 in Neustadt; † August 15, 1938 there)

   Former Mayor

   Awarded on August 25, 1936

   The innkeeper and wine merchant Schildknecht was honorary mayor from January 20, 1913 to August 23, 1917. In March 1923 he was a co-founder of the Neustädter NSDAP local group and was elected to the district assembly in 1928. He was made an honorary citizen for his great services to the township in difficult times.

6. Ludwig Siebert (born October 17, 1874; † November 1, 1942)

   Lawyer and politician ( BVP / NSDAP ), Mayor of Rothenburg ob der Tauber and Lord Mayor of Lindau, Member of the Landtag and Reichstag, as well as Bavarian Prime Minister

   Awarded on March 15, 1939 and handover on March 18 on the occasion of a visit to Neustadt

7. Leonhard Bankel (born May 18, 1883 - † July 10, 1974)

   Former Mayor

   Awarded on April 19, 1951

   On April 25, 1921, Bankel took over the office of First Mayor until 1945 (he was church council member from July 1933, NSDAP member from 1937) and again from 1948 to 1960 ( SPD ). Since 1907 he had made outstanding contributions to the development of the municipal savings bank as a savings bank administrator . “In loyalty and self-sacrifice he served the common good to the best of his ability and through personal commitment he saved the city from destruction in the unfortunate days of April 1945”, formulated the city council's resolution of April 19, 1951. The invasion of the Americans on April 16 had described Bankel with the words "darkest day" and "darkest hour" in the Neustadt town historiography. The Leonhard-Bankel-Platz in Neustadt is named after him.

8. Max Döllner (born March 31, 1874 - † January 7, 1959)

   Senior government and senior medical officer, local researcher

   Awarded on March 26, 1954

   With the award of honorary citizenship to Döllner, his outstanding services to research into local history were gratefully recognized.

9. Georg Selz (December 19, 1900 - July 4, 1968)

   Honorary citizen of the 1972 incorporated district of Birkenfeld

   Entrepreneur, local council

   Decision of November 27, 1965

10. Werner Dollinger (born October 10, 1918 - † January 3, 2008)

    Politician ( CSU )

    Awarded on October 10, 1978

11. Wolfgang Mück (born October 9, 1939 in Müglitz an der March )

    Teacher, local researcher and First Mayor (SPD) from 1990 to 2002

    Awarded on October 10, 2009

    Bearer of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

literature

• Karlheinz Spielmann: Honorary Citizen and Honors in the Federal Republic. 1965

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See also Max Döllner: History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch until 1933. Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1950. (New edition 1978 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publishing house Ph. CW Schmidt Neustadt an der Aisch 1828-1978. ) , P. 747 f.
2. ↑ Wolfgang Mück (2016), pp. 7 and 117–119 and 258.
3. ↑ Max Döllner (1950), p. 660.
4. ↑ Wolfgang Mück (2016), p. 64.
5. ↑ “Julius Streicher, one of the first pioneers of the national-socialist movement, probably most thoroughly recognized the danger of world Jewry and led the fight against this power. We owe it to him alone if the race question in Germany is resolved with the coming developments ”( Neustädter Gazette of August 12, 1938).
6. ↑ Wolfgang Mück (2016), pp. 7, 119, 186 f. and 267 f.
7. ↑ Wolfgang Mück (2016), pp. 8, 14 f., 80 and 231.
8. ^ Wolfgang Mück: Nazi stronghold in Middle Franconia. The Volkish Awakening in Neustadt ad Aisch 1922–1933. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2016 (= Streiflichter aus der Heimatgeschichte. Ed. By Geschichts- und Heimatverein Neustadt ad Aisch e.V., special volume 4), 3rd, extended edition ibid. 2016, ISBN 978-3-87707-990- 4 , pp. 119 and 265.
9. ^ SPD Neustadt an der Aisch
10. ^ Max Döllner: History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch until 1933. Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1950. (New edition 1978 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Ph. CW Schmidt Neustadt an der Aisch publishing house 1828-1978. ), P. 704 .
11. ^ Wolfgang Mück: Nazi stronghold in Middle Franconia. The Volkish Awakening in Neustadt ad Aisch 1922–1933. (2016), p. 156 f., 171 and 203 f.
12. ^ Streets in Germany , accessed December 19, 2017.

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