In Nazi Germany, the state gave a number of honorary titles to certain German cities. Not included in this list is the Polish city of Zamość, which, in 1942, was planned to be renamed Himmlerstadt, after Heinrich Himmler.Lynn H. Nicholas, Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web p. 333
The following cities were given an honorary title during 1933–1939:Fritz Mayrhofer: Die "Patenstadt des Führers", Linz City Honorary title In English Since Note Berlin-Friedrichshain Horst-Wessel-Stadt "Horst Wessel City"1933 Braunschweig Die deutsche Siedlungsstadt "German Settlement City" Self-assigned title.Verkehrszeitschrift d. St. Braunschweig: Braunschweig - Die deutsche Siedlungsstadt, Siedlungs-So.heft serie 5, 1935 Name refers to the 'model settlement' of the German Labour Front located in Mascherode. Bremen Stadt der Kolonien
Hauptstadt der deutschen Schiffahrt "City of the Colonies"
"Capital of German Shipping" 1933 Heinz Gustafsson: Namibia, Bremen und Deutschland, Aschenbeck & Holstein, 2003,
Shared with the city of Hamburg, see below.Donath, Matthias (2007). Architektur in München 1933-1945: ein Stadtführer, p. 10. Lukas Verlag, Berlin. Chemnitz Hauptstadt der deutschen Industrie "Capital of German Industry" 1933 Shared with the city of Essen, see below. Coburg Erste nationalsozialistische Stadt Deutschlands "First National Socialist City of Germany" 1939 Coburg was the first German city in which the NSDAP won the absolute majority of the popular votes during municipal elections. Cologne Hauptstadt des deutschen Handels "Capital of German Trade" 1933 Shared with the city of Leipzig, see below. Essen Hauptstadt der deutschen Industrie "Capital of German Industry" 1933 Shared with the city of Chemnitz, see above. Frankfurt am Main Stadt des deutschen Handwerks "City of German Crafts" 1935 See Friedrich Krebs (mayor) Goslar Reichsbauernstadt "Reich Peasant City" 1936 Contained the headquarters of the Reichsnährstand, an organisation controlling German food production.P. Schyga: Von der nationalen Stadt zur Reichsbauernstadt des Nationalsozialismus, Goslar 1918 - 1945 - Ein historisch-politischer Essay, Bielefeld, 1999. Graz Stadt der Volkserhebung "City of the Popular Uprising" 25 July 1938 Given because of pre-Anschluss pro-Nazi demonstrations.Helmut Konrad / Andrea Strutz: Graz - "Stadt der Volkserhebung" , March 2007 Hamburg Hauptstadt der deutschen Schiffahrt "Capital of German Shipping" 1933 Shared with the city of Bremen, see above. Innsbruck Stadt der deutschen Bergsteiger "City of the German Mountaineers" Landsberg am Lech Stadt der Jugend "City of the Youth" 1937 Important in Nazi mythology as the site of Hitler's imprisonment in 1924.Manfred Deiler: Landsberg wird zum Wallfahrtsort des Nationalsozialismus , Landsberg, 2005 Leipzig Reichsmessestadt
Hauptstadt des deutschen Handels "Reich Fair City"
"Capital of German Trade"" 20 December 1937
1933 Leipzig-Lexikon: Register R: „Reichsmessestadt“
Shared with the city of Cologne, see above. Linz First: Jugendstadt des Führers Heimatstadt des Führers First:"Youth City of the Führer""Home City of the Führer" Adolf Hitler spent much of his youth in Linz, and continued to consider it his home town for the rest of his life. Later: Gründungsstadt des Großdeutschen Reichs
Patenstadt des Führers Later: "City of the Founding of the Greater German Reich"
"Patronage City of the Führer" 1938 The law which formally legalized the incorporation of Austria into the German Reich was signed in Linz on 13 March 1938 by Hitler and Arthur Seyss-Inquart, then-Chancellor of the Austrian Republic. MunichHauptstadt der deutschen Kunst
Hauptstadt der Bewegung
Merged title:
Hauptstadt der Bewegung und Hauptstadt der deutschen Kunst "Capital of German Art"
"Capital of the Movement"
Merged title:
"Capital of the Movement and Capital of German Art" 1933
1935
1938"The Movement" meaning the Nazi Party, which was founded and headquartered in Munich.
The dual titles were merged into one according to a May 1938 Hitler decreeSpotts, Frederic (2003). Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics, p. 368. Pimlico, London. Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz Dietrich-Eckart-Stadt "Dietrich Eckart City" Poet and founder of the DAP, predecessor of the Nazi Party. Nuremberg Stadt der Reichsparteitage "City of the Reich Party Conventions" 7 July 1936 Center of the annual Nuremberg Rallies)Alexander Schmidt: Geländebegehung. Das Reichsparteitagsgelände in Nürnberg, tredje helt omarbetade upplagan, Nürnberg 2002 SalzgitterOfficially:
Stadt der Hermann-Göring-Werke
Informally:
Hermann-Göring-Stadt Officially:
"City of the Hermann-Göring-Werke"
Informally:
"Hermann Göring City" Forndran, Erhard (1984). Die Stadt- und Industriegründungen Wolfsburg und Salzgitter, p. 394. Campus. Soest Stadt des deutschen Mittelalters "City of the German Middle Ages" Stuttgart Stadt der Auslandsdeutschen "City of the Germans Abroad" 1936 Stadt Stuttgart: Karl Strölin (1890-1963) Roland Müller: Die Stuttgarter Kriegsfilmchronik - Ein besonderer Bestand im Stadtarchiv (Uppsats) Wels Stadt der Bewegung Patenstadt von Hermann Göring "City of the Movement" "Patronage City of Hermann Göring"Hauch et al 2001, NS-Zwangsarbeit: der Standort Linz der Reichswerke Hermann-Göring-AG Berlin, 1938-1945. Zwangsarbeit-Sklavenarbeit : Politik-, social- und wirtschaftshistorische Studien, vol. 1, p. 29, Wolfsburg Stadt des KdF-Wagens "City of the KdF Car" 1938 Unlike the other cities on this list which were merely assigned these honorary titles, Wolfsburg was actually founded under the name Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben, not acquiring its modern name until the post-war denazification process after the Third Reich's defeat in 1945.
See also German World War II strongholds, so-called Festung ("fortress") cities of Nazi Germany. Führerstadt List of streets named after Adolf Hitler
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