List of honorary citizens of Rottenburg am Neckar

The city of Rottenburg am Neckar has granted the following people honorary citizenship since 1851 .

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

Honorary citizen of the city of Rottenburg

Eugene Bolz

1. 1851: Ignaz von Jaumann , cathedral chapter, archaeologist
2. 1901: Hermann Wittich , member of the government
3. 1904: Gustav Holzherr , private owner
4. 1909: Karl Bitzenauer, parish priest
5. 1924: Paul Wilhelm von Keppler , bishop
6. 1930: Karl Landsee, businessman
7. 1931: Alois Kremmler, senior director of studies
8. 1931: Eugen Bolz (1881–1945 (executed in Berlin-Plötzensee)), politician and resistance fighter
9. 1947: Joannes Baptista Sproll , bishop
10. 1947: Max Kottmann , Vicar General
11. 1949: Josef Schneider, mayor and office director a. D.
12. 1958: Franz Anton Buhl, senior teacher and local researcher
13. 1961: Josef Eberle , poet and publisher
14. 1967: Alfred Planck, manufacturer
15. 1968: Carl Joseph Leiprecht , bishop
16. 2003: Winfried Löffler, retired Lord Mayor D.
17. 2008: Walter Cardinal Kasper , former Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart and Cardinal of the Curia

Honorary citizen of formerly independent communities

Bad Niedernau

1. 1891: Kilian von Steiner , banker

Ergenzingen

1. 1919: Hieronymus Baur, mayor

   1961: Alfons Leykauf, pastor. Revoked honorary citizenship in 2016

2. 1965: Maximilian Schier, senior teacher

Frommenhausen

1. ?: Rudolph Freiherr von Wagner-Frommenhausen , Württemberg Minister of War
2. 1908: Ludwig Franz Freiherr von Wagner, Lieutenant General

Kiebingen

1. 1938: Karl Franz Ferdinand Viktor Osterwald, operations manager of the electricity company

Obernau

1. ?: Ignaz Kleiner, pastor
2. 1947: Otto Heine, pastor

Wormlings

1. 1905: Sebastian Bauer, Dean
2. 1953: Franz Joseph Fischer , auxiliary bishop

   1961: Stefan Kruschina, pastor. Revoked honorary citizenship in 2011

Withdrawal of honorary citizenship

On May 11, 2010, the local council decided to withdraw the honorary citizenship posthumously from the former Wurmlinger pastor Stefan Kruschina, after the Wurmlinger local council unanimously voted in favor. As part of the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, it became known that Kruschina had "sexually abused and brutally chastised" boys during his time as Wurmlinger pastor from 1953 to 1965 . The “Sexual Abuse” commission set up by Bishop Gebhard Fürst regards the allegations as proven. The pastor, who died in 1991, received honorary citizenship in 1968 from what was then the Wurmlingen community because of services to the Wurmlingen chapel and the community center. After the incorporation of Wurmlingen, honorary citizenship passed to the city of Rottenburg.

Likewise, the council decided to withdraw the former Ergenzinger priest Alfons Leykauf honorary citizenship posthumously on May 12, 2016 as it stated by the Episcopal Commission "Sexual abuse" three girls from the children's home St. Joseph in Gutenzell-Hürbel , Biberach district , several Sexually abused for years. In this case, too, the honorary citizenship was transferred to the city of Rottenburg after the incorporation of Ergenzingen.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} allegation of abuse against Ergenzingen pastor. Schwäbisches Tagblatt , May 12, 2016, accessed on May 12, 2016 . 
2. ↑ http://www.tagblatt.de/pu_all/popup.php?bi=Mjk2NzY5Mg==&pageid=12
3. ↑ Schwäbisches Tagblatt, Rottenburger Post from May 15, 2010 - pages 25 and 37