List of honorary citizens of Berlin
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Recipients of the honorary citizenship of Berlin (German: Ehrenbürger von Berlin), in order of date of presentation. In total 119 people have been awarded honorary citizenship.
1813-1850[]
- Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
- Ernst Ludwig Heim
- Ludwig Matthias Nathanael Gottlieb von Brauchitsch
- Carl Friedrich Heinrich Graf von Wylich und Lottum
- Friedrich August von Staegemann
- Nicholas I of Russia
- Karl Albert von Kamptz
- Gustav von Rauch
- Karl Freiherr von Müffling
- Hermann von Boyen
- Heinrich von Gagern
- Friedrich Wilhelm, Count Brandenburg
- Friedrich Graf von Wrangel
1851-1900[]
- Otto Theodor von Manteuffel
- Christian Daniel Rauch
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell
- Philipp August Böckh
- Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick
- Otto von Bismarck
- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
- Heinrich Schliemann
- Leopold von Ranke
- Robert Koch
- Rudolf Virchow
- Adolph Menzel
- Paul Langerhans
1904-1949[]
- Arthur Hobrecht
- Martin Kirschner
- Paul Michelet
- Oskar Cassel
- Ludwig Hoffmann
- Hugo Heimann
- Max Liebermann
- Paul von Hindenburg (Honorary citizenship rescinded)
- Adolf Hitler (Honorary citizenship rescinded)
- Hermann Göring (Honorary citizenship rescinded)
- Joseph Goebbels (Honorary citizenship rescinded)
- Wilhelm Frick (Honorary citizenship rescinded)
- Paul Lincke
- Wilhelm Pieck (Honorary citizenship rescinded)
- Rudolf Wissell
- Theodor Heuss
1955-2000[]
- Paul Löbe
- Louise Schroeder
- Jakob Kaiser
- F. K. Otto Dibelius
- Marie Elisabeth Lüders
- Heinrich Lübke
- Lucius D. Clay
- Otto Heinrich Warburg
- Konrad Adenauer
- Nelly Sachs
- Otto Hahn
- Hans Scharoun
- Otto Nagel
- Heinrich Zille
- Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
- Heinrich Grüber
- Willy Brandt
- Ferdinand Friedensburg
- Herbert von Karajan
- Gustav Heinemann
- Nikolai Berzarin
- Anna Seghers
- Valery Bykovsky
- Sigmund Jähn
- Walter Scheel
- Johann Baptist Gradl
- Shepard Stone
- Wolfgang Heinz
- Karl Carstens
- John J. McCloy
- Wieland Herzfelde
- Heinz Galinski
- Helmut Schmidt
- Richard von Weizsäcker
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Helmut Kohl
- Ronald Reagan
- Hans-Dietrich Genscher
- Edzard Reuter
- Roman Herzog
- George H. W. Bush
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
2002-2016[]
- Egon Bahr
- Marlene Dietrich
- Johannes Rau
- Heinz Berggruen
- Wolf Biermann
- Werner Otto
- Joachim Gauck
- W. Michael Blumenthal
- Wolfgang Schäuble
Notes[]
The honorary citizenships of Wilhelm Frick, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, and Wilhelm Pieck have been revoked. The honorary citizenship of Nikolai Berzarin was revoked in 1992 but was restored in 2003.
External links[]
- List of honorary citizens of Berlin by the Berlin House of Deputies (German)
- History of honorary citizenship in Berlin (German)
Categories:
- Lists of people by city in Germany
- Lists of honorary citizens by city
- Berlin-related lists
- German award winners