List of honorary citizens of Stuttgart

The city of Stuttgart has granted honorary citizenship to the following people since 1801 .

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

The honorary citizens of the city of Stuttgart

1. 1801 Christian Heinrich von Günzler , councilor and mayor (1758–1842)
2. 1801 Carl Freiherr (count since 1810) von Reischach , Chamberlain and Councilor (1763–1834)
3. 1807 Wolfgang (von) Mögling , Go. Legation councilor (1771-1813)
4. 1819 Jakob Friedrich (von) Weishaar , President of the Chamber of Deputies (1775–1834)
5. 1828 Ludwig August von Gärttner , City Director and President (1790–1870)
6. 1832 Theodor Plieninger , medic (1756–1840)
7. 1835 Georg Friedrich von Jäger , chief medical officer and paleontologist (1785–1866)
8. 1835 Carl Friedrich (von) Kielmeyer , State Councilor, natural scientist (1765–1844)
9. 1836 Karl Ludwig von Reichenbach , chemist and industrialist (1788–1869)
10. 1837 Karl Ferdinand Heinrich Freiherr von Ludwig , manufacturer and banker (1784–1847)
11. 1839 Georg (von) Reinbeck , councilor, professor, poet and esthete (1766–1849)
12. 1841 Bertel (von) Thorvaldsen , Danish sculptor (1770–1844)
13. 1847 Paul (von) Pfizer , State Councilor and political writer (1801–1867)
14. 1848 Christof Gottlob Heinrich Friedrich von Römer , Councilor of State, Chairman of the March Ministry in 1848 and President of the Chamber of Deputies (1794–1864)
15. 1854 Gustav Adolf Breymann , professor at the Polytechnic, architect (1807-1859)
16. 1855 Ludwig Friedrich von Gaab , senior building officer (1800–1869)
17. 1857 Ludwig Friedrich Freiherr von Wiesenhütten , Chamberlain (1786-1859)
18. 1857 Dominika Baroness von Wiesenhütten , b. Steel (1812–1858)
19. 1858 Wilhelm Friedrich von Ludwig , State Councilor and Royal. Personal physician (1790–1865)
20. 1864 Ludwig (von) Golther , Minister of Education and President (1823–1876)
21. 1864 Joseph (von) Egle , court building director (1818–1899)
22. 1866 Karl von Gerok , court preacher and poet (1815–1890)
23. 1871 Hugo Freiherr von Obernitz , commanding general (1819–1901)
24. 1871 Karl Bernhard Freiherr von Reitzenstein , Lieutenant General (1809–1885)
25. 1872 Heinrich von Sick , 1862–1872 Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, then Minister of the Interior (1822–1881)
26. 1884 Ludwig von Hofer , court sculptor (1801–1887)
27. 1887 Andreas (von) Renner , Minister of State for Finance (1814–1898)
28. 1890 Otto Fürst von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor (1815–1898)
29. 1900 Hermann von Mittnacht , Prime Minister (1825–1909)
30. 1906 Eduard Zeller , philosopher (1814–1908)
31. 1908 Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin , Dr.-ing., General of the Cavalry and Airship Builder (1838–1917)
32. 1909 Eduard (von) Pfeiffer , Go. Councilor, writer and co-founder of the Stuttgart savings and consumer association (1835–1921)
33. 1910 Adolf von Donndorf , sculptor (also honorary citizen of Eisenach and Weimar ) (1835–1916)
34. 1917 Robert Bosch , industrialist (1861–1942) (since 1917 also honorary citizen of the former municipality of Feuerbach)
35. 1927 Carl von Bach , engineer, State Councilor (1847–1931)
36. 1933 Paul von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg , President of the Reich and Field Marshal General (1847–1934) (revoked by the local council on July 15, 2010)
37. 1933 Adolf Hitler , Chancellor (1889–1945) (revoked August 5, 1946)
38. 1945 Karl Lautenschlager , Dr.-ing. eh, Lord Mayor of Stuttgart (1868–1952)
39. 1954 Theodor Heuss , MdR ( DDP ), MP ( FDP ), 1949-1959 President (1884-1963)
40. 1969 Reinhold Maier , MdR ( DDP ), MP ( FDP ), Prime Minister (1889 to 1971)
41. 1975 Gebhard Müller , Member of the Bundestag ( CDU ), Prime Minister , President of the Federal Constitutional Court (1900–1990)
42. 1975 Erwin Schoettle , Member of the Bundestag ( SPD ), Vice President of the Bundestag (1899–1976)
43. 1982 Pierre Pflimlin , 1959–1983 Lord Mayor of Strasbourg (1907–2000)
44. 1990 Richard von Weizsäcker , Member of the Bundestag ( CDU ), 1984–1994 Federal President (1920–2015)
45. 1996 Manfred Rommel ( CDU ), 1974–1996 Lord Mayor of Stuttgart (1928–2013)
46. 2012 Wolfgang Schuster ( CDU ), 1996–2012 Lord Mayor of Stuttgart (* 1949)

Honorary citizen of formerly independent communities and today's districts

Cannstatt (until 1905 the municipality of Cannstatt)

• 1818 Karl Friedrich Sick , Councilor (1780–1837)
• 1822 Franz Xaver Freiherr Hugo von Spitzemberg , Lord Chamberlain, Lieutenant General and Hofjägermeister (1781–1864)
• 1822 Johann Gottlob Christoph von Seeger , senior magistrate and city judge (1767–1835)
• 1830 Josef (von) Dalbenden , Lieutenant Colonel and Chamberlain (1792–1844)
• 1830 Jakob von Heine . Dr., go. Councilor, co-founder of orthopedics , discoverer of spinal polio (1800–1879)
• 1830 Henriette Heine , b. Camerer (1807-1874)
• 1831 Gotthold Karl Georg von Ströhlin , senior magistrate and city director (1791–1858)
• 1843 Elisabeth Freifrau Hugo von Spitzemberg born. Freiin von Massenbach (1803-1857) and her four sons, the barons:
  • Wilhelm Freiherr Hugo von Spitzemberg , General (1825–1888)
  • Karl Freiherr Hugo von Spitzemberg , Chamberlain, Councilor of State (1826–1880)
  • Alfred Freiherr Hugo von Spitzemberg (1830–1848)
  • Franz Freiherr Hugo von Spitzemberg , Premier Lieutenant (1841–1871)
• 1845 Karl Baron von Vauthier-Bailliamont , KK treasurer, captain (1778-1856)
• around 1845 Emil Freiherr von Maucler , Oberstkarnmerherr, Oberhofrat President and State Councilor (1809-1870)
• around 1845 Baron Julius von Maucler , Chamberlain and Legation Councilor (1811–1850)
• 1854 Wilhelm Graf von Taubenheim , Chamberlain and Colonel stable master (1805-1894)
• 1856 Albert von Veiel , Dr., senior medical officer and go. Councilor (1806–1874)
• 1879 Ernst Ezechiel Pfeiffer , Privy Councilor (1831–1904)
• 1881 Karl Wilhelm Sutorius , businessman (1831–1901)
• 1888 Karl (von) Burckhardt , Dr., Councilor and Bath Doctor (1818–1888)
• 1893 Rudolf (von) Vellnagel , banker, go. Councilor and Dutch Consul General (1840-1918)
• 1893 Karl von Schmid , Minister of State for the Interior (1832–1893)
• 1893 Karl von Leibbrand , President (1839–1898)
• 1904 Oskar von Nast , Lord Mayor of Cannstatt (1849–1907)

Degerloch

• 1885 Hermann (von) Ehmann , senior building officer (1844–1905)

Feuerbach (until 1933, municipality of Feuerbach)

• 1908 August Happold , manufacturer (1846–1922)
• 1909 Oswald Hesse , Dr., Councilor and chemist

Hofen

• 1924 Adolf Adis , pastor (1873–1963)

Möhringen

• 1901 Otto Mögling , Dr. Doctor (1852-1910)
• 1907 Gustav Albert Kleinknecht , Mayor (1837–1909)
• 1907 Johannes Krämer , senior teacher (1834–1910)
• 1913 Karl Widmaier , brewery owner (1859–1938)

Mulhouse

• 1907 Wilhelm Presset , pastor (1863–1941)

Muenster

• 1897 Karl Eckhardt , pastor (1832–1901)
• 1911 Gustav Firnhaber , site manager (1848–1915)
• 1914 Karl Eberhard Seeger , main teacher (1846–1923)
• 1926 Maria Lutz , b. Weitmann, writer (1886–1951)

Rotenberg

• 1926 Alexander Beutter , pastor, music scholar (1862–1952)

Sillenbuch

• 1897 Paul Rommel , landlord (1862–1918)

Uhlbach

• 1893 Gottlieb Benger , manufacturer, go. Commerce Council, Romanian Consul General (1851–1903)

Untertürkheim

• 1904 Eduard Fiechtner , Mayor (1843–1922)

Vaihingen

• 1906 Otto Krehl , Mayor (1838–1925)
• 1906 Robert Leicht , brewery owner, councilor (1849–1921)
• 1910 Robert Vollmöller , manufacturer, councilor (1849–1911)
• 1928 Fanny Leicht , b. Widmaier, widow of Commerce Council (1854–1939)
• 1929 Ernst Kachel , Mayor (1865–1931)

Cheeks

• 1905 Ernst Geiger , Mayor (1866–1932)

Zuffenhausen (until 1931 municipality of Zuffenhausen)

• 1918 Moritz Horkheimer , manufacturer, councilor (1858–1945)
• 1918 Samuel Rothschild , manufacturer, co-founder of the Zuffenhausen leather factory (1853–1924)
• 1922 Louis Bauer, master baker and innkeeper (1837–1930)

See also

• Portal: Stuttgart / list of persons
• List of personalities of the city of Stuttgart