Silesian shield

The Schlesierschild is the highest award of the Silesian Landsmannschaft .

Presentation and execution

The Silesian voting eagle serves as the template for the Silesian shield . The Silesian shield shows the silver eagle on a gold background.

Award

The Schlesierschild was first awarded on June 9, 1961 in Hanover . The award can only be given to 30 living personalities.

Bearer of the Silesian Shield

1961

• Paul Löbe (1875–1967), politician and President of the Reichstag
• Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (1893–1961), Prime Minister of Lower Saxony
• Wolfgang Jaenicke (1881–1968), diplomat

1962

• Joseph Ferche (1888–1965), auxiliary bishop
• Joachim Konrad (1903–1979), Protestant theologian
• Friedrich Bischoff (1896–1976), writer
• Arnold Ulitz (1888–1971), writer

1965

• Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967), former Federal Chancellor D.
• Oskar Golombek , Papal Protonotary
• Ulrich Bunzel , councilor
• Max Tau (1897–1976), German-Norwegian writer
• Hans-Christian Dierig , writer

1967

• Kurt Engelbert (1886–1967), prelate
• Ernst Scheyer (1900–1985), art historian
• Walter Rinke (1895–1983), politician
• Otto Count Pückler

1969

• Günther Grundmann (1892–1976)
• Gerhard Hultsch (1911–1992), Protestant pastor and councilor
• Heinrich Süssmuth

1971

• Ernst Hornig (1894–1976), Protestant bishop
• Hanna Reitsch (1912–1979), pilot
• Erich Schellhaus (1901–1983), Minister for Expellees in Lower Saxony a. D.
• Karl Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (1921–1972), politician

1973

• Wilhelm Scheperjans (1912–1998), Catholic clergyman
• Otto Klöden (1895–1986), politician and functionary for expellees
• Ernst Birke (1908–1980), historian

1975

• Anton Belda (1885–1989), politician and functionary for expellees
• Hermann Gramatte , rector
• Alfons Goppel (1905–1991), Prime Minister of Bavaria
• Ambrosius Rose , religious

1977

• Maximilian sky
• Herbert Stabrin , entrepreneur
• Hans Thieme (1906–2000), lawyer and legal historian

1978

• Wilhelm Menzel (1898–1980), folklorist and philologist

1979

• Mia Countess Schaffgotsch
• Rudolf Kurnoth , Dean
• Eberhard Schwarz , Probst
• Gerhard Webersinn (1904–1993), historian

1981

• Hubert Thienel (1904–1987), Catholic clergyman, prelate and apostolic visitor
• Heinrich Windelen (1921–2015), Federal Minister
• Viktor Kupka

1983

• Helmut None
• Gerhard Simon
• Johannes Wiedner
• Gottfried Milde (1934–2018), Member of the Bundestag and Interior Minister in Hesse

1985

• Franz Mader (1912–1988), lawyer, officer and politician
• Erwin Gregor († 2007), expellee official
• Gotthard Speer (1915-2005)
• Ernst Albrecht (1930–2014), Prime Minister of Lower Saxony

1987

• Franz Josef Strauss (1915–1988), Prime Minister of Bavaria
• Johannes Leppich (1915–1992), Catholic priest
• Hans Weber
• Richard Haase (1921–2013), lawyer
• Gottfried Klapper (1917–2003), senior church councilor

1989

• Franz Scholz (1909–1998), Catholic theologian
• Alfred Dregger (1920–2002), politician and Member of the Bundestag
• Edith Harbarth , co-founder of the folk art movement Europeade
• Martin Machatzke (posthumous)

1991

• Otto von Habsburg (1912–2011), politician and MEP
• Johannes Kroll (1918–2000), Polish politician from the German minority
• Blasius Hanczuch (* 1937), carpenter and artist
• Heinrich Rzega , pastor

1993

• Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1907–1994), nobleman
• Erich Mende (1916–1998), politician
• Erle Bach (1927–1996), writer
• Robert Müller-Kox , co-founder of the folk art movement Europeade

1995

• Bernhard Huhn (1921–2007), Catholic bishop
• Joachim Rogge (1929–2000), Protestant bishop
• Gertrud Waldberg
• Herbert Hupka (1915-2006), politician and expellee official

1997

• Gerda Benz
• Josef Joachim Menzel (* 1933), historian
• Leo Stosch
• Adalbert Kurzja (1920–2016), religious

1998

• Heinrich Trierenberg
• Josef Gonschior
• Hartmut Stelzer

1999

• Gudrun Schmidt (* 1941), journalist
• Winfried König (1932–2015), Catholic clergyman and apostolic protonotary
• Gebhard Glück (1930–2009), Bavarian State Minister

2001

• Friedrich-Carl Schultze-Rhonhof (1925–2014), scientist and author
• Barbara Stamm (* 1944), Bavarian State Minister

2003

• Günther Beckstein (* 1943), Bavarian State Minister and MdL
• Konrad Werner

2005

• Barbara Suchner (1922–2010), poet and writer
• Christa Stewens (* 1945), Bavarian State Minister and MdL
• Bruno Kosak (1936–2019), German-Polish politician

2007

• Gerhard Pieschl (* 1934), auxiliary bishop

2009

• Franz Jung (* 1936), Apostolic Protonotary
• Christian-Erdmann Schott (1932–2016), pastor

2011

• Uwe Schünemann (* 1964), Minister of the Interior in Lower Saxony
• Alfons Nossol (* 1932), Archbishop

2015

• Peter Grosspietsch

2018

• Hans-Joachim Muschiol
• Volker Bouffier , Prime Minister of Hesse

2019

• Boris Pistorius , Lower Saxony Minister for Interior and Sport

See also

• Plaque of honor of the Federation of Expellees
• Prussian shield

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Silesian eagle. landsmannschaft-schlesien.de, accessed on July 29, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Schlesier Shield . landsmannschaft-schlesien.de, accessed on July 29, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Laudation for the Schlesierschild awarding ceremony on June 21, 2015 for Peter Großpietsch, Hanover, Christian K. Kuznik. (PDF) landsmannschaft-schlesien.de, accessed on July 29, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Oliver Bergmann: "HaJo" Muschiol in a select group. In: ikz-online.de. August 6, 2018, accessed September 17, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Press office: Hessian State Chancellery: Prime Minister Bouffier receives the Silesian shield on Memorial Day for the victims of flight, displacement and deportation. September 16, 2018, accessed September 17, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Minister of the Interior Pistorius awarded a Silesian shield at the Germany Meeting of Silesians 2019 in Hanover. Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport, June 17, 2019, accessed on January 14, 2020 .