List of honorary citizens of Unterhaching
The honorary citizenship is the highest municipal award the town of Unterhaching . The municipal council honors people who have distinguished themselves through their particularly meritorious work for the community of Unterhaching for the common good. The honor can also be given to personalities whose life's work is so significant that it is a credit to the community.
So far 17 people have been made honorary citizens.
The honorary citizens of the Unterhaching community
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Josef Breiteneicher
- Beneficiary in the Catholic Church of St. Korbinian from 1909 to 1920
- Awarded February 20, 1920
- He actively prevented the church bells from being removed during the First World War.
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Josef Prenn (1879–1975)
- City council and mayor
- Awarded on August 1, 1939
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Oskar Putz
- Awarded on May 8, 1950
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Karl Mathes
- Local politicians first Bavaria party then CSU, mayor from 1952 to 1972
- Awarded on January 14, 1972
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Peter Erhard
- Awarded October 27, 1977
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Ludwig Specht
- Awarded April 4, 1997
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Anton Troppmann (1915-2009)
- Municipal council
- Awarded on December 14, 1983
- Troppmann was a local councilor from 1948 to 1984 and from 1978 second mayor. From 1960 to 1964 he was CSU local chairman and from 1968 also belonged to the district council. He was the founding chairman of the Catholic labor movement in 1938 and was elected chairman of the church administration in 1979. In 1983 he received the Federal Cross of Merit.
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Rudolf Felzmann (1915–2011)
- Home keeper
- Awarded December 12, 1990
- Felzmann was a local home attendant until 2004. In 1983 he summarized his research on the history of the community for the first time in a homeland book. Five years later he presented a completely revised edition.
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Rosa Bauer (1922–2013)
- Social worker and councilor
- Awarded in 1998
- Bauer was chairwoman of the workers' welfare for 18 years . From 1978 to 2002 she was a member of the local council.
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Christian Kriz
- Municipal council
- Awarded on March 12, 2008
- The social democrat Kriz was a member of the local council from 1960 to 2008.
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Marianne Gamperl
- Founder of the non-profit housing association Unterhaching
- Awarded in December 2009
- Gamperl worked from 1941 until her retirement in 1987 for the Unterhaching municipal administration. In 1985 she founded the non-profit housing company Unterhaching (GWU) and continued to volunteer for the company after her retirement. This now has 300 apartments as assets.
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Rudolf Pesl (1919-2008)
- Art collector and patron
- Awarded on December 14, 2011
- In 1989, the art collector founded the Pesl Foundation Unterhaching to “promote culture and education as well as the recreation of needy Unterhaching residents”. He decreed that all of his assets will go to the Unterhaching community after his death.
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Klaus Westmar
- Head of Neighborhood Assistance
- Awarded on December 14, 2011
- Westmar took over the neighborhood help in 2004 and expanded its range of activities to include work with child minders. He works in the house pastoral care of the KWA -Wohnstift am Parksee and heads the multiple sclerosis self-help group founded in 1983 with his wife.
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Thomas Jaeger
- Municipal council
- Awarded in December 2015
- Thomas Jaeger was a local councilor in Unterhaching for 36 years, including six years as the third mayor of the community. In 1978 he launched the Unterhaching FDP local association and was the only one of his party to join the local council. Furthermore, he has been involved in international exchange since the partnership circles were founded and has been its chairman since 1997.
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Volker Panzer
- Municipal council
- Awarded in December 2015
- Volker Panzer sat on the local council for the SPD from 1972-2008 . From 1993 to 2008 he was the second mayor of the municipality. Volker Panzer has been an active member of TSV Unterhaching since 1957 and is involved in the athletics department there. He was nine times Bavarian champion and four times represented in the German national team. In 1972 he took part in the torch relay of the Olympics in Munich. After leaving the local council, Volker Panzer was elected President of TSV Unterhaching. He held this post until 2015.
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Prof. Dr. Alfons Hofstetter
- City council, 2nd mayor
- Awarded in December 2018
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Waltraud Rensch
- Councilor
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Felzmann, Rudolf: Unterhaching . A home book. Unterhaching community, Unterhaching 1988, p. 153 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Felzmann, Rudolf: Unterhaching . A home book. Unterhaching community, Unterhaching 1988, p. 423 .
- ↑ "The church was his child". In: Münchner Merkur. August 18, 2009, accessed February 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Unterhaching · You can only love your homeland if you know it. Münchner Wochenanzeiger GmbH, August 3, 2011, accessed on August 27, 2017 .
- ↑ lawe: The highest honor in the village . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 16, 2008, ISSN 0174-4917 .
Web links
- Honoring personalities in the Unterhaching community