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List of honorary citizens of Schleswig-Holstein
Five
persons
have been made
honorary citizens of
Schleswig-Holstein
:
Gerhard
Stoltenberg
, former
Ministerpräsident
of Schleswig-Holstein and former
defence
and
finance minister
of
Germany
Uwe Ronneburger, former chairman of the
FDP
of Schleswig-Holstein
Helmut
Schmidt
, former
German
Bundeskanzler
Siegfried
Lenz
,
distinguished
German
author
, who partly
lives
in
Tetenhusen
near
Flensburg
. Schleswig-Holstein is the
location
of many of his
stories
.
Leonard
Bernstein
,
renowned
American
conductor
and
composer
, who was awarded
honorary citizenship
of Schleswig-Holstein three years
prior
to his
death
in
1990
.