List of honorary citizens of Wolfsburg
The city of Wolfsburg has granted honorary citizenship to 20 people since it was founded .
In the course of the incorporation of the towns of Fallersleben and Vorsfelde on July 1, 1972, the honorary citizenships conferred there were taken over by Otto Wolgast , Fritz Weiberg and Max Valentin .
The honorary citizens of the city of Wolfsburg
Note: The listing is done chronologically according to the date of award.
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Heinrich Nordhoff (born January 6, 1899 in Hildesheim, † April 12, 1968 in Wolfsburg)
- 1948 to 1960 General Director of Volkswagenwerk GmbH, 1960 to 1968 Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagenwerk AG
- Awarded on August 5, 1955
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Otto Wolgast (born May 16, 1900 in Althüttendorf near Eberswalde; † August 8, 1994)
- 1930 to 1945 mayor, 1949 to 1966 city director of the city of Fallersleben
- Awarded on May 16, 1965 in Fallersleben
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Fritz Weiberg (born December 11, 1900 in Braunschweig, † September 15, 1977 in Wolfsburg)
- 1946 to 1952 and 1954 to 1968 district administrator of the Helmstedt district, also from 1947 to 1955 member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
- Awarded on November 29, 1965 in Vorsfelde
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Max Valentin (born September 30, 1902 in Vorsfelde; † January 13, 1979)
- 1933 to 1945 and 1952 to 1972 (with interruptions) mayor of the city of Vorsfelde
- Awarded on September 30, 1971 in Vorsfelde
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Hugo Bork (born November 20, 1907 in Graudenz / West Prussia; † October 16, 1998)
- 1951 to 1971 works council chairman of the Volkswagen factory, 1956 to 1959 city council, 1959 to 1961 senator, 1961 to 1974 (with interruption 1972) mayor
- Awarded on November 20, 1977
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Günther Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg (born April 15, 1891 in Hanover; † March 12, 1985)
- Large landowners
- Awarded on April 15, 1981
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Antonius Holling (born September 2, 1908 in Osnabrück, † September 7, 1996 in Wolfsburg)
- 1940 to 1986 Catholic priest in the city of the KdF-Wagen or Wolfsburg
- Awarded on July 1, 1984
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Wilhelm Wolf (March 2, 1911 - February 22, 1992)
- Doctor, 1973 to 1977 chairman and 1978 to 1989 president of VfL Wolfsburg
- Awarded on June 30, 1985
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Carl H. Hahn (born July 1, 1926 in Chemnitz)
- 1982 to 1993 Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG
- Awarded on June 30, 1990
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Walter Hiller (born October 9, 1932 in Dettingen an der Erms)
- 1986 to 1990 Chairman of the General and Group Works Council of Volkswagen AG, 1986 to 1990 City Council, 1990 to 1996 Minister of Social Affairs of Lower Saxony
- Awarded on December 19, 1996
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Werner Schlimme (born August 8, 1924 in Freden; † August 12, 2010 in Wolfsburg)
- 1968 to 1976 city council, 1976 to 1981 city councilor, 1981 to 1986 first mayor, 1986 to 1996 lord mayor
- Awarded on December 19, 1996
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Volkmar Köhler (born May 20, 1930 in Hanover; † June 6, 2012 in Wolfsburg)
- 1964 to 1972 city councilor, 1969 to 1972 mayor, 1972 lord mayor, 1972 to 1976 city councilor, and 1972 to 1994 member of the German Bundestag
- Awarded on September 8, 1999
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Helmut Simson (born August 29, 1916 in Berlin; † March 13, 2013 in Wolfsburg)
- 1959 to 1964 City Council, 1964 to 1972 Senator, 1972 to 1974 City Councilor, 1974 to 1976 Lord Mayor, also 1967 to 1974 member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament
- Awarded on September 8, 1999
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Katharina Schmidt (born August 5, 1929 in Silesia; † May 25, 2004)
- committed to the German Red Cross and the Vorsfelde social station, established the "Wolfsburg lunch for those in need"
- Awarded on May 4, 2001
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Ferdinand Piëch (born April 17, 1937 in Vienna; † August 25, 2019 in Rosenheim)
- 1993 to 2002 Chairman of the Board of Management, 2002 to 2015 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG
- Awarded on November 15, 2002
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Heinrich Heidersberger (born June 10, 1906 in Ingolstadt, † July 14, 2006 in Wolfsburg)
- Artist and photographer
- Awarded on October 12, 2003
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Manfred Kolbe (born October 29, 1934 in Breslau)
- 1968 to 1972 city council, 1972 to 1996 city councilor, 1996 to 2006 (first) mayor
- Awarded on November 11, 2007
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Rocco Artale (born August 12, 1940 near Pescara / Abruzzo)
- came to Wolfsburg in 1962 as an Italian "guest worker", from 1996 to 2011 councilor
- Awarded on September 25, 2012
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Ingrid Eckel (born April 9, 1944 in Schönwinkel near Jarotschin / Wartheland)
- 1996 to 2001 mayor, 1998 to 2008 member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
- Awarded on October 5, 2014
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Rolf Schnellecke (born September 12, 1944 in the city of the KdF car)
- 1995 to 2001 City Director, 2001 to 2011 Lord Mayor, entrepreneur
- Awarded on November 29, 2014
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Udo-Willi Kögler (born December 4, 1942 in Wolfenbüttel)
- Founding chairman of the Wolfsburg community foundation, automobile manager
- Award ceremony on April 22, 2018
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Hans-Joachim Throl (born October 12, 1952)
- 1976 to 2016 councilor, 1981 to 1986 second mayor, lawyer
- Award ceremony on April 22, 2018
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Rolf Wolters (* 1940 in Bremen)
- Organizer of the Wolfsburg Schützen- und Volksfest for over 44 years , from 1986 to 2001 and 2006 to 2016 councilor, master baker
- Award ceremony on March 10, 2019
Web links
- Honorary citizen of the city of Wolfsburg on the city's website