List of People Related To Mainz - Honorary Citizens

Honorary Citizens

(47 since 1831)

Chronological list:

• 1831: Dr. Georg Moller, Regierungsbaumeister (first honorary citizen)
• 1834: Emmanuel von Mensdorff-Pouilly, vice governor of the federal fortress Mainz
• 1835: Albert Thorvaldsen, Danish/Icelandic sculptor, creator of the Gutenbergdenkmal
• 1839: Wilhelm Freiherr von Müffling, gen. Weiß, vice governor of the federal fortress Mainz
• 1839: Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, vice governor of the federal fortress Mainz
• 1856: Reinhard Carl Friedrich von Dalwigk, Hessian territory commissioner in the federal fortress Mainz
• 1864: Franz Xaver von Paumgartten, vice governor of the federal fortress Mainz
• 1864 to 1866 Prinz Prince Charles of Prussia was governor of Mainz
• 1871: Heinrich Karl Waldemar zu Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Augustenburg, vice governor of the federal fortress Mainz
• 1875: Leopold Hermann von Boyen, governor of the federal fortress Mainz
• 1877: Philipp Veit, romantic painter, director of the municipal gallery at Mainz
• 1878: Dr. Karl Georg Friedrich Schmitt, evangelical theology
• 1883: Wilhelm von Woyna, governor of the federal fortress Mainz
• 1886: Freiherr Edmund Gedult von Jungenfeld, Kaufmann, ehrenamtlicher Leiter der Mainzer Sparkasse
• 1891: Jakob Hochgesand, physician, director of the St. Rochus-Hospital
• 1891: Friedrich Küchler, administrative director of the province Rheinhessen
• 1898: Dr.jur. Carl Rothe, administrative director of the province Rheinhessen, Ministry of Internal Affairs within the Grand Duchy of Hesse
• 1905: Stefan Karl Michel, politician, vice president chamber of commerce
• 1905: Hermann Reinach, local politician, deputy mayor of Mainz
• 1907: Dr. Karl Georg Bockenheimer, local politician, historian, writer
• 1908: Max von Gagern, administrative director of the province Rheinhessen
• 1915: Ferdinand Albert Friedrich Kuhn, Hessian government building officer, deputy mayor of Mainz
• 1927: Dr. Heinrich Ludwig Müller, children physician, local politician and deputy mayor of Mainz
• 1931: Dr. Friedrich Karl Külb, physician, lord mayor of Mainz
• 1934: Prof. Dr. Heinrich Joseph Maria Schrohe, teacher and local historian
• 1936: Prof. Dr. Ernst Neeb, archivist, historian and promoter of the conservation of ancient monuments
• 1951: Wilhelm Christ, communal politician, founder of the Wohnungsbau GmbH in Mainz
• 1955: Alfred Freitag, local politician, founder of local social associations
• 1957: Prof. Dr. Aloys Ruppel, historian, director of the municipal library, municipal archives and the Gutenberg museum, Gutenberg researcher
• 1962: Carl Zuckmayer, author
• 1962: Prof. Dr. Adam Gottron, priest, theologian and historian regarding sacred music
• 1964: Félix Kir, catholic priest, resistance fighter and politician
• 1965: Dr. Peter Altmeier, first prime minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, co-founder of the Second German Television
• 1965: Prof. Dr. Hermann Reifenberg, catholic priest
• 1969: rector Karl Preller, rector parent house of the Congregation of the Sisters of Divine Providence in Finthen
• 1969: Heinrich Dreibus, local politician and deputy mayor of Mainz
• 1970: Dr. Ludwig Strecker, director of Schott Music, publisher
• 1972: Prof. Dr. Ing. Fritz Strassmann, chemist who, along with Otto Hahn, and Lisa Meitner discovered the nuclear fission of uranium in 1938
• 1975: Hermann Kardinal Volk, Bishop of Mainz
• 1979: Paul Distelhut, local politician
• 1981: Marc Chagall, painter, created nine stained-glass windows in St. Stephan Mainz
• 1981: Anna Seghers, originally Netty Rádvany, geb. Reiling, author
• 1983: Prof. Dr. Karl Holzamer, first director general (Intendant) of the ZDF
• 1984: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Erich Schott, chemist and glass technologist and the inventor of borosilicate glass (Schott Glass).
• 1989: Jockel Fuchs, lord mayor
• 2001: Karl Kardinal Lehmann, Bishop of Mainz
• 2004: Karl Delorme, local politician
• 2005: Msgr. Klaus Mayer, catholic priest at St. Stephan