Honorary city titles in Nazi Germany


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.
The following cities were given an honorary title during 1933-1939:
CityHonorary titleIn EnglishSinceNote
Berlin-FriedrichshainHorst-Wessel-Stadt"Horst Wessel City"1933
BraunschweigDie deutsche Siedlungsstadt"German Settlement City"Self-assigned title.
Bremen
Stadt der Kolonien
Hauptstadt der deutschen Schiffahrt
"City of the Colonies"
"Capital of German Shipping"		1933
Shared with the city of Hamburg, see below.
ChemnitzHauptstadt der deutschen Industrie"Capital of German Industry"1933Shared with the city of Essen, see below.
CoburgErste nationalsozialistische Stadt Deutschlands"First National Socialist City of Germany"1939Coburg was the first German city in which the NSDAP won the absolute majority of the popular votes during municipal elections.
CologneHauptstadt des deutschen Handels"Capital of German Trade"1933Shared with the city of Leipzig, see below.
EssenHauptstadt der deutschen Industrie"Capital of German Industry"1933Shared with the city of Chemnitz, see above.
Frankfurt am MainStadt des deutschen Handwerks"City of German Crafts"1935See Friedrich Krebs
GoslarReichsbauernstadt"Reich Peasant City"1936
GrazStadt der Volkserhebung"City of the Popular Uprising"25 July 1938Given because of pre-Anschluss pro-Nazi demonstrations.
HamburgHauptstadt der deutschen Schiffahrt"Capital of German Shipping"1933Shared with the city of Bremen, see above.
InnsbruckStadt der deutschen Bergsteiger"City of the German Mountaineers"
Landsberg am LechStadt der Jugend"City of the Youth"1937
Leipzig
Reichsmessestadt
Hauptstadt des deutschen Handels
"Reich Fair City"
"Capital of German Trade""		20 December 1937
1933
Shared with the city of Cologne, see above.
LinzFirst:
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 for the rest of his life.
LinzLater:
Gründungsstadt des Großdeutschen Reichs
Patenstadt des Führers		Later:
"City of the Founding of the Greater German Reich"
"Patronage City of the Führer"		1938The 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.
Munich
Hauptstadt 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 decree
Neumarkt in der OberpfalzDietrich-Eckart-Stadt"Dietrich Eckart City"
NurembergStadt der Reichsparteitage"City of the Reich Party Conventions"7 July 1936Center of the annual Nuremberg Rallies)
SalzburgStadt der Lebensforschung"City of Life Sciences"
SalzgitterOfficially:
Stadt der Hermann-Göring-Werke
Informally:
Hermann-Göring-Stadt		Officially:
"City of the Hermann-Göring-Werke"
Informally:
"Hermann Göring City"
SoestStadt des deutschen Mittelalters"City of the German Middle Ages"
StuttgartStadt der Auslandsdeutschen"City of the Germans Abroad"1936
WelsStadt der Bewegung
Patenstadt von Hermann Göring		"City of the Movement"
"Patronage City of Hermann Göring"
WolfsburgStadt des KdF-Wagens"City of the KdF Car"1938Unlike 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.