List Of Honorary Citizens Of Gdańsk
The title of an Honorary Citizen of Gdańsk (Polish language, Polish: ''Honorowy Obywatel Gdańska'') is conferred by the city authorities to persons who made significant contributions to the city of Gdańsk, irrespective of their place of birth or nationality. The first historically documented person who received the title was Wilhelm Baum (surgeon), Wilhelm Baum in 1832. The legal basis for conferring this honour was the Prussian Act on Local Government from 1831, which introduced the term of an ''honorary citizen''. In the period of the Free City of Gdańsk (1918-1945) and the Polish People's Republic, Communist State (1945-1989) the title of an Honorary Citizen of Gdańsk was awarded to a number of controversial figures such as Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring and Bolesław Bierut. All these titles were subsequently revoked by the City Council after the end of the Second World War (this also included titles granted during the Prussian rule) and after the collapse of communism in ...
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