Municipal award; honored by the municipality

The awarding of honorary citizenship by the municipal council is the municipality's highest honor.

Former mayors can be awarded the honorary title of "former mayor" or "former mayor".

Other options for honoring deserving citizens include: honorary gifts, honorary medals, honorary rings and the like.

However, every citizen can also propose themselves for the award of deserving citizen to the municipality (merits and time spent with the municipality must be presented). Those who nominate themselves cannot be considered.

In order to be awarded honorary citizenship, the person to be honored must have rendered special services to the municipality itself. These can be merits of a material or non-material nature. The requirements for other honors by the municipality are not generally defined; they can be regulated in a statute.

If you would like to nominate someone for an award, you can write to the Mayor's and Press Office/City Council Affairs, Civic Engagement and Citizens' Issues Department. An informal letter containing the name and address, if possible also the date of birth and a detailed description of the merits of the person to be honored is sufficient.

We would like to point out that a medal procedure usually takes a long time and is treated confidentially.

You also need permission from the City of Erlangen to collect medals.

There are also other state awards such as

• the Bavarian State Medal for services to the environment and health
• the state medal for special services to the Bavarian economy
• the monument protection medal
• Honors for field jurors, etc.

The city of Erlangen itself also has a number of ways of honoring particularly deserving citizens. For example, there is the City of Erlangen Certificate of Honor in the areas of social affairs, business, sport and the environment
as well as the possibility of being awarded honorary citizenship or the Golden Ring of Honor of the City of Erlangen for particularly outstanding achievements.