List of honorary citizens of Trier

The city of Trier has granted the following persons honorary citizenship, which generally ends with the death of the person. Those honored included Adolf Hitler and Bernhard Rust . In 1979, the Trier SPD unsuccessfully proposed the official and express distancing of the city from these two titles, which the CDU and the Trier daily press rejected as superfluous. In 2003, Lord Mayor Helmut Schröer made it clear that Hitler and Rust had forfeited honorary citizenship “through their criminal and undignified actions”. The Trier city council removed Adolf Hitler and Bernhard Rust from the list of honorary citizens on September 2, 2010. On July 9, 2020, Paul von Hindenburg was posthumously stripped of his honorary citizenship by resolution of the city council .

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

The honorary citizens of the city of Trier

• 1858: Johann Anton Ramboux (1790–1866), painter
• 1875: Prince Heinrich of the Netherlands (1820–1879)
• 1883: Carl Josef Holzer (1800–1885), Provost of the Cathedral
• 1895: Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), First Reich Chancellor
• 1901: Berthold von Nasse (1831–1906), District President in Trier and Upper President of the Rhine Province
• 1901: Franz Xaver Kraus (1840–1901), church historian
• 1904: Karl de Nys (1833–1907), Lord Mayor
• 1915: Michael Felix Korum (1840–1921), Bishop of Trier
• 1927: Albert von Bruchhausen (1859–1948), Lord Mayor
• 1930: Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), President of the Reich, revoked on July 9, 2020
• 1930: Johannes Fuchs (1874–1956), Reich Minister, Upper President of the Rhine Province
• 1933: Adolf Hitler , (1889–1945), Reich Chancellor, withdrawn September 2, 2010
• 1936: Bernhard Rust , (1883–1945), Reich Minister, withdrawn September 2, 2010
• 1946: Franz Rudolf Bornewasser (1866–1951), Bishop of Trier
• 1957: Heinrich Weitz (1890–1962), Lord Mayor of Trier
• 1959: Theodor Heuss (1884–1963), Federal President
• 1966: Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967), Federal Chancellor
• 1975: Bernhard Stein (1904–1993), Bishop of Trier
• 1981: Oswald von Nell-Breuning SJ (1890–1991), Nestor of Catholic social teaching
• 2003: Jean-Claude Juncker (* 1954), Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and EU Commission President since 2014

literature

• Emil Zenz : The honorary citizens of the city of Trier . Stadtsparkasse, Trier 1979.

Web links

Honorary citizen of the city of Trier

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Address by the Lord Mayor Helmut Schröer on the occasion of the award of the honorary citizenship of the city of Trier to the Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker . May 27, 2003, online under Archived Copy ( Memento of November 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed April 11, 2008)
2. ↑ Thomas Zuche (Ed.): StattFührer. Trier under National Socialism. 2nd edition Trier, Spee: 1997. ISBN 3-87760-057-3 . Pp. 113-114.
3. ↑ Adolf Hitler - Trier's "forfeited" honorary citizen. April 19, 2007, online at Archived Copy ( Memento from April 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed April 11, 2008)
4. ^ Arbeitsgemeinschaft Frieden (Ed.): Dealing with the Nazi Legacy, online under Archived Copy ( Memento from June 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed April 11, 2008)
5. ↑ ^{a b c} RP ONLINE : Hitler no longer an honorary citizen of Trier ( Memento from September 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Trier City Council votes for the renaming of Hindenburgstrasse . Trierian friend of the people. Retrieved July 20, 2020.