List of honorary citizens of Potsdam

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The city of Potsdam has given the following people honorary citizenship.

Honorary citizen of Potsdam

They are listed chronologically according to the year of award.

19th century

• 1822: Deesen, manager (castellan) of the Royal Theater, awarded on December 4th, on the occasion of his 50th anniversary in service
• 1833: Jacob Bogislaw von Puttkamer , on September 1, 1817 appointed Commandant of Potsdam, Major General
• 1834: Decker, Counselor
• 1835: Friedrich Magnus von Bassewitz , Upper President of the Province of Brandenburg, Chief President of the Government
• 1838: Friedrich von Ribbentrop , chief president of the Königl. Upper Chamber of Accounts, vorm. General manager of the Preuss. army
• 1839: Wilhelm von Türk , government and school councilor
• 1840: A. Flesche, police director, member of the Luisenstiftung and deputy of the Märkische Economic Society
• 1843: Karl von Prittwitz (1790–1871), commander of the 1st Guard Regiment z. F .; Prussian colonel a. Major General, later General of the Infantry
• 1844: Rulemann Friedrich Eylert , doctor of theology, bishop, court and garrison preacher , member of the State Council and the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs, inspector of the preacher's widow's house
• 1845: Wilhelm Ludwig Viktor Henckel von Donnersmarck , Lieutenant General
• 1849: Alexander von Humboldt , scientist; Awarded honorary citizenship on the occasion of his 80th birthday
• 1856: Friedrich von Wrangel , Field Marshal General
• 1863: Heinrich Eltester , preacher in Potsdam
• 1863: Peter Joseph Lenné , General Garden Director (the original document is incorrectly in the name of Peter Paul Lenné)
• 1877: Herter, head of the city council and councilor
• 1877: HLW Gobbin, councilor and mayor
• 1878: August Bertheau , tobacco dealer, cigar manufacturer and city councilor and later reindeer
• 1890: Paul von Stünzner, royal forest master
• 1891: Hermann von Helmholtz , natural scientist, professor and member of the Academy of Sciences; President of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Charlottenburg
• 1896: Ludwig Wiese, senior government councilor
• 1897: Reinhold Boie , Lord Mayor
• 1898: Ferdinand Koeppen, master baker and city councilor

20th century

• 1901: August Heinrich Pusch, court bookseller, head of the city council
• 1905: Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg , Upper President of the Province of Brandenburg
• 1906: Bernhard Rogge , garrison pastor and chaplain
• 1913: August Graf zu Eulenburg , upper court and house marshal
• 1921: Hermann Bolle, master mason
• 1927: Theodor Hoppe , pastor, head of the Oberlin House (1927 honorary citizen of Nowawes , 1996 by resolution of the city council also of Potsdam)
• 1933: Paul von Hindenburg , Field Marshal General and President
• 1933: Felix Rosbund , head of the city council (from 1919 to 1933), lawyer and notary
• 1955: Willy Kurth , art historian
• 1955: Max Volmer , physical chemist
• 1959: Karl Foerster , gardener and garden writer
• 1959: Otto Meier , politician (SPD / SED), President of the Landtag of Brandenburg (in the Soviet Zone / GDR )
• 1960: WC Aktchurin, Soviet Colonel of the Guard
• 1960: Hans Marchwitza , writer
• 1965: Yevgeny Fyodorowitsch Ludschuweit , Lieutenant Colonel of the Guard in the Soviet Army
• 1965: Otto Nagel , painter
• 1970: Werner Nerlich , painter and graphic artist
• 1973: Wassili M. Scharow , major general, former head of the Soviet military administration for the state of Brandenburg
• 1973: Fritz Neidhardt
• 1991: Friedrich Mielke , monument conservator, art historian, architect and educator

21st century

• 2001: Hans-Joachim Giersberg
• 2003: Siegward Sprat
• 2016: Hasso Plattner
• 2017: Helga Schütz

Withdrawal of honorary citizenship

In 1990 the following were deleted from the list of Potsdam's honorary citizens:

• Adolf Hitler ,
• Hermann Goering
• Wilhelm Frick

Individual evidence

1. ^ Daniela Doering: A [honorary citizen] list with inconsistencies . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 30, 1991, p. 22
2. ↑ Apartment indicator Apartment indicator for the Potsdam residence for the years 1826, 1827 and 1828 . Ed. And author: Friedrich Wilhelm August Isert [Leutnant a. D.], Potsdam [Printed at the author's expense], Potsdam, Printed by August Petsch, Berlin, p. 71
3. ↑ Apartment indicator Apartment indicator for the Potsdam residence for the years 1826, 1827 and 1828 . Ed. And author: Friedrich Wilhelm August Isert [Leutnant a. D.], Potsdam [Printed at the author's expense], Potsdam, Printed by August Petsch, Berlin, p. 17
4. ↑ Apartment indicator Apartment indicator for the Potsdam residence for the years 1826, 1827 and 1828 . Ed. And author: Friedrich Wilhelm August Isert Leutnant a. D., Potsdam [printed at the author's expense], Potsdam, printed by August Petsch, Berlin, p. 4
5. ↑ Boicke, Johann Wilhelm: General Housing Gazette for Berlin, Potsdam and Charlottenburg , edition 1836; Digitized by the ZLB Berlin, p. (176), column 2
6. ↑ Boicke, Johann Wilhelm: General Housing Gazette for Berlin, Potsdam and Charlottenburg , edition 1836, p. (192), column 2
7. ↑ Boicke, Johann Wilhelm: General Housing Gazette for Berlin, Potsdam and Charlottenburg , edition 1836, p. (176), column 1
8. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , December 30, 1991, p. 22
9. ^ Potsdam - history; Honorary Citizen Alexander von Humboldt
10. ↑ His widow, Mrs. Eltester, née Eimbeck, lived in Potsdamer Burgstrasse 34 in 1877, according to the "General Housing Gazette Housing Gazette for the Royal Residence City of Potsdam and the surrounding area for the year 1877", First Department, p. 26, column 2
11. ↑ Caption: Atmospheric part in Sanssouci , in Berliner Zeitung , May 18, 1991, p. 14
12. ↑ According to the general housing gazette for the royal residence city of Potsdam and the surrounding area, the "Secret Government Councilor and Mayor" out of service lived for the year 1877 and also for the years 1978, 1879, 1880, 1882 and 1885, published by FW Schulz , at Neue Königsstrasse 64. His wife, née Tschoppe, is shown as a widow in the "Address Book of the Royal Residence City of Potsdam and Surroundings to the Year 1891", published by August Heinrich Pusch, Potsdam, First Division p. 46, column 2 .
13. ^ General housing gazette for Berlin, Potsdam and Charlottenburg , edition 1836; Digitized, ZLB
14. ^ General housing gazette for the royal residence city of Potsdam and the surrounding area for the year 1878 , published by FW Schulz, p. 10, column 1
15. ↑ residing in Potsdam, Bismarckstrasse 7, according to the Potsdam 1891 address book, p. 161, column 1 and "Second Department", p. 11, column 2
16. ^ "Address book of the royal residence city of Potsdam and the surrounding area for the year 1894", published by August Heinrich Pusch, court bookseller Potsdam, under first section: "I. Honorary citizen of the royal city of Potsdam"
17. ↑ Dr. Wiese, Ludwig Ad .; Real Privy Councilor, Your Excellency, in: Address book for the royal residence city of Potsdam and the surrounding area for the year 1900. Printed on November 1, 1899; under "I. honorary citizen of the royal seat of Potsdam"
18. ↑ Address book for the royal residence city of Potsdam and the surrounding area for the year 1900, under "I. Honorary Citizen of the Residence City of Potsdam": Boje, Reinhard, Lord Mayor a. D.
19. ↑ Address book for the royal residence city of Potsdam and the surrounding area for the year 1900, under "I. honorary citizen of the residential city of Potsdam": Koeppen, Ferdinand, pensioners
20. ^ Address book for the royal residence city of Potsdam for 1903, published by August Heinrich Pusch, Königl. and royal Prince Court bookseller, Potsdam, mentioning by name with occupation under "I. honorary citizen of the royal seat of Potsdam".
21. ^ Address book for the royal royal seat of Potsdam 1907, printed and published by AW Hayns's Erben, Potsdam, under "I. Honorary Citizen of the Royal City of Potsdam": Dr. v. Bethmann Hollweg, T., Excellency, Minister of the Interior, Berlin
22. ↑ Address book for the royal royal seat of Potsdam 1907, printed and published by AW Hayns's Erben, Potsdam, under "I. Ehrenbürger der Residenzstadt Potsdam": D. Rogge, B., Hofprediger, emer.
23. ^ Address book for the royal royal seat of Potsdam 1914, printed and published by AW Hayns's heirs (Curt Gerber), Potsdam, under "I. honorary citizen of the royal seat of Potsdam": zu Eulenburg, August, Count, Excellency, Oberhof- and House Marshal Sr. Maj. [estät] d. K. [aisers] and King's]
24. ^ Address book Potsdam 1934. Compiled and edited by AW Hayns's Erben, Potsdam, Kaiserstraße 3, p. 158 column 2; ISBN 978-3-88372-075-3
25. ↑ Neues Deutschland , November 21, 1956, p. 4
26. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , December 30, 1991, p. 22
27. ^ Neue Zeit , March 11, 1959, p. 2
28. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , January 7, 1992, p. 22
29. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , June 25, 1960, p. 6
30. ↑ Neues Deutschland , November 3, 1967, p. 4; Berliner Zeitung , January 7, 1992, p. 22
31. ^ Neue Zeit , October 26, 1965, p. 1
32. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , December 30, 1991, p. 22
33. ^ Neue Zeit , October 10, 1974, p. 2
34. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , May 8, 1975, p. 2
35. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , December 5, 1991, p. 15
36. ↑ According to Märkische Allgemeine of January 29, 2013, based on information from the press spokesman for the state capital Potsdam, a list maintained by the Department of Culture and Museum was updated in 2001 for the former General Director of the Palace Foundation, Hans-Joachim Giersberg , “in the run-up to honorary citizenship” .
37. ↑ Potsdam Latest News , December 8, 2017
38. ^ Resolution of the Potsdam city council of August 15, 1990, Berliner Zeitung , August 16, 1990, p. 7
39. ^ Resolution of the Potsdam City Council of August 15, 1990, Neue Zeit , August 16, 1990, p. 2
40. ^ Address book Potsdam 1938/39, p. 11 [honorary citizen next to Hitler and Göring]
41. ^ Denial of honorary citizenship of Frick on November 7, 1990, according to Märkische Allgemeine , January 23, 2013