At its meeting on December 10, 2020, the City Council of the State Capital of Wiesbaden decided to set up a historical expert commission to examine traffic areas, buildings and facilities named after people. The commission was tasked with examining the biographies of those who gave their names to traffic areas, buildings and facilities in the state capital of Wiesbaden for National Socialist contamination and to make recommendations on how to deal with these names. The Historical Expert Commission was chaired by Prof. Dr. Christoph Cornelißen, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, with Prof. Dr. Sabine Mecking, Philipps University Marburg, as deputy chair, Prof. Dr. Eckart Conze, Philipps University Marburg, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hedwig, Hessian State Archives, and PD Dr. Nadine Freund, University of Kassel, as well as City Councillor Christa Gabriel until April 2021, then City Councillor Dr. Gerhard Obermayr as representative of city politics and Dr. Peter Quadflieg, Head of the Wiesbaden City Archives, as representative of the specialist administration.

Between 2021 and 2023, the Historical Commission examined a total of 71 biographies. The results are published online here in the form of the final report and as volume 17 of the series "Schriften des Stadtarchivs Wiesbaden". It contains biographical reports on all of the people examined as well as the Historical Commission's recommendations for action in dealing with the respective namesakes. For 18 people, the Historical Commission recommends renaming or rededicating the traffic area, building or institution named after them. In a further twelve cases, the commission recommends contextualization.

The report also provides an overview of the previous naming practice of streets, buildings and facilities in the state capital of Wiesbaden. The study identified three groups of people who have been honored in the form of street names over the past 70 years: On the one hand, streets were named after nationally known personalities who were also honored in other cities and municipalities. On the other hand, locally known people with a strong connection to the state capital of Wiesbaden were named as patrons of this city. Their Nazi past was previously shrouded in mystery and has now been researched for the first time. A third group consists of personalities who usually have a connection to a Wiesbaden district and were honored due to their commitment to local politics, associations or sports clubs. The final report outlines the work of the Historical Expert Commission from its establishment to the recommendations for action to city policy.