Ernst Reuter badge
The Ernst Reuter plaque has been awarded by the Berlin Senate since 1954 in honor of the first Governing Mayor of Berlin Ernst Reuter (1889–1953).
The plaque is to be given to personalities "who have made special contributions to Berlin". Outstanding achievements in the political, economic and intellectual-cultural area are to be honored.
The plaque was designed by the sculptor Richard Scheibe . In the first few years, the plaque was awarded in the silver and bronze classes. It has been awarded in silver-plated bronze since 1980 .
During the lifetime of his widow Hanna Reuter (1899–1974), the award could only be given with her consent.
Badge holder
- 1954: James Bryant Conant (1893–1978), High Commissioner and Representative of the USA in Berlin
- 1954: Hanna Reuter (1899–1974), resistance fighter, widow of Ernst Reuter
- 1954: Heinz Tietjen (1881–1967), German director, conductor and general manager
- 1957: Carl Ebert (1887–1980), actor
- 1957: Walter Gropius (1883–1969), architect
- 1958: Otto Bartning (1883–1959), architect
- 1958: Paul Hertz (1888–1961), politician
- 1958: Otto Warburg (1883–1970), biochemist
- 1959: Eleanor Lansing Dulles (1895–1996), national economist
- 1959: Friedrich Ernst (1889–1960), banker
- 1959: Paul Fleischmann (1889–1965), politician
- 1959: Otto Hahn (1879–1968), chemist
- 1959: Hans Emil Hirschfeld (1894–1971), politician
- 1959: Max von Laue (1879–1960), physicist
- 1959: Edwin Redslob (1884–1973), art and cultural historian
- 1959: Joachim Tiburtius (1889–1967), Senator for Popular Education
- 1960: Ernst Deutsch (1890–1969), actor
- 1960: Adolf Dünnebacke (1891–1978), District Mayor of Berlin-Reinickendorf
- 1960: Gustav Klingelhöfer (1888–1961), politician
- 1960: Paul Löbe (1875–1967), politician and resistance fighter
- 1960: Henry A. Reichhold (1901–1989), founder of the Academy of Arts
- 1962: Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), American politician
- 1962: Heinrich Vockel (1892–1968), first Berlin representative of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1966: Boleslaw Barlog (1906–1999), director and general manager
- 1966: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), architect
- 1966: Otto Ziebill (1896–1978), Lord Mayor of Nuremberg
- 1967: Tilla Durieux (1880–1971), actress
- 1967: Hans Herzfeld (1892–1982), historian
- 1967: Fritz Kortner (1892–1970), actor
- 1967: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884–1976), painter
- 1968: Ernst Lemmer (1898–1970), Federal Minister
- 1969: Otto Friedrich Bach (1899–1981), politician
- 1970: Heinz Gutsche (1915–1973), District Mayor of Reinickendorf
- 1970: Otto Theuner (1900–1980), Senator for Transport and Mayor
- 1971: Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt (1901–1988), composer
- 1971: Elsa Wagner (1881–1975), actress
- 1971: Siegmund Weltlinger (1886–1974), founding member of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation
- 1972: Charles Corcelle (1907–1993), French politician
- 1972: Erich Gießner (1909–1995), politician
- 1972: Viktor de Kowa (1904–1973), actor
- 1972: Herbert Kowalewsky (1907–2003), Chairman of the Works Council
- 1972: Rolf Schwedler (1914–1981), Senator for Construction and Housing
- 1973: Boris Blacher (1903–1975), composer
- 1973: Bruno Fritz (1900–1984), actor
- 1973: Otto Eduard Hasse (1903–1978), actor
- 1973: Kurt Mattick (1908–1986), politician
- 1973: Nicolas Nabokov (1903–1978), composer
- 1973: Rudolf Prestel (1898–1979), lawyer
- 1973: Friedrich Smend (1893–1980), musicologist
- 1973: Ernst Sünderhauf (1908–1974), Senator for the Interior
- 1973: Alexander Voelker (1913–2001), local politician
- 1973: Jeanette Wolff (1888–1976), politician
- 1974: Heinz Galinski (1912–1992), head of the Jewish community in Berlin
- 1974: Johann Baptist Gradl (1904–1988), Federal Minister
- 1974: Werner Haftmann (1912–1999), art historian
- 1974: Eberhard Hesse (1911–1986), journalist
- 1974: Walther G. Oschilewski (1904–1987), publicist
- 1974: Rudolf Platte (1904–1984), actor
- 1974: Leopold Reidemeister (1900–1987), art historian
- 1974: Hans Sonnenfeld (1901–1993), founder of the newspaper "Der Abend"
- 1974: Aristide Syrigos (1915–1999), French diplomat
- 1975: William Borm (1895–1987), politician
- 1975: Geoffrey Francis Edwards (1917–1996), British diplomat
- 1975: Ernst Fraenkel (1898–1975), political scientist
- 1975: Ella Kay (1895–1988), district mayor
- 1975: Rudolf Kleine (1918–2001), politician (SPD)
- 1975: John Jay McCloy (1895–1989), American politician
- 1975: Walter Nicklitz (1911–1989), architect
- 1975: Otto Stammer (1900–1978), political scientist
- 1975: Werner Stein (1913–1993), local politician
- 1976: Emil Bücherl (1919–2001), surgeon
- 1976: Walter W. Cobler (1908–1979), politician
- 1976: Kurt Exner (1901–1996), politician
- 1976: Max Flesch (1907–1998), lawyer
- 1976: Werner Kießling (1914–2006), association official
- 1976: Alfred Kubel (1909–1999), Prime Minister
- 1976: Kurt Meurer (1901–1991), bookseller
- 1976: Barbara von Renthe-Fink (1901–1983), doctor, politician
- 1976: Kurt Scharf (1902–1990), bishop
- 1977: Ulrich Biel (1907–1996), politician
- 1977: Hans Chemin-Petit (1902–1981), composer
- 1977: Ernst Schellenberg (1907–1984), politician
- 1977: Johannes Stumm (1897–1978), Chief of Police 1948–1963
- 1977: Hans-Georg Wormit (1912–1992), politician
- 1977: Walter Wegner (1907– ??), journalist
- 1978: Franz Barsig (1924–1988), journalist
- 1978: Hellmuth Butenuth (1898–1990), engineer
- 1978: Franz Cornelsen (1908–1989), publisher
- 1978: Werner Gust (1910–1979), banker
- 1978: Martin Held (1908–1992), actor
- 1978: Gertrud Junge (1908– ??), social worker
- 1978: Richard Löwenthal (1908–1991), publicist
- 1978: Karl-Heinz Peters (1912–2017), Chairman of the Board of the Gemeinnützige Heimstätten-AG (GEHAG)
- 1978: Kurt Raeck (1903–1981), actor
- 1978: Siegfried Schuster (1915–1989), professor, marine engineer
- 1978: Hans Söhnker (1903–1981), actor
- 1978: Grete Sonnemann (1903–1990), local politician, member of the Berlin House of Representatives
- 1978: Wolfgang Stresemann (1904–1998), composer
- 1978: Maria von Tiesenhausen (* 1929), director of the Georg Kolbe Museum
- 1978: Herbert Weise (1913–1984), Chairman of the Berlin Hospital Society
- 1979: Franz Amrehn (1912–1981), politician
- 1979: Herbert Arndt (1906–1994), politician (SPD), member of the Berlin House of Representatives
- 1979: Sven Einar Backlund (1931–1997), Swedish diplomat
- 1979: Josef Ertl (1925–2000), Federal Minister of Agriculture (CSU)
- 1979: Herbert Lax (1909–1987), physician
- 1979: Rudolf Mendel (1907–1979), local politician, member of the Berlin House of Representatives
- 1979: Walter Steigner (1912–1983), journalist
- 1979: Horst-Ludwig Stein (1916–1988), General Manager of AMK Berlin
- 1979: Hans Steinitz (1912–1993), President of the Foreign Press Association
- 1979: Ilse Wolff (1915– ??), local politician
- 1979: Wilhelm Zerndt (1908–1988), local politician (SPD), district councilor in the Neukölln district
- 1980: Constantin Freiherr Heereman (1931–2017), peasant president
- 1980: Alfred Kramer (1901– ??), goldsmith
- 1980: Edith Krappe (1909–2006), politician (SPD), member of the German Bundestag
- 1980: Agnes Katharina Maxsein (1904–1991), politician (CDU), member of the German Bundestag
- 1980: Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), conductor and violin virtuoso
- 1980: Bernhard Minetti (1905–1998), actor
- 1980: Marie Schlei (1919–1983), politician (SPD), Federal Minister
- 1980: Max Schmidheiny (1908–1991), Swiss entrepreneur, politician and founder of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation
- 1980: Heinz Voigt (* 1920), union official
- 1980: Heinz Wieseke (* 1915), President of the Berlin Chamber of Crafts
- 1981: Hellmut Becker (1913–1993), educational scientist
- 1981: Dietrich Blos (1901–1989), physician
- 1981: Siegfried Borris (1906–1987), composer
- 1981: Curt Meyer (1891–1984), Head of Social Hygiene
- 1981: Karlheinz Quack (1926–2006), President of the Bar Association
- 1981: Helmut Ziegner (1921–2006), actor
- 1982: Hertha Beese (1902–1987), local politician (SPD)
- 1982: Peter Lorenz (1922–1987), politician (CDU)
- 1982: Kurt Neubauer (1922–2012), politician (SPD)
- 1982: Walter Sickert (1919–2013), President of the House of Representatives (SPD)
- 1982: Axel Springer (1912–1985), publisher
- 1982: Richard von Weizsäcker (1920–2015), Federal President, Governing Mayor (CDU)
- 1983: Elisabeth Bergner (1897–1986), actress
- 1983: Franz Ehrke (* 1921), politician (SPD), director of the German class lottery
- 1983: Zeno Schindler (1917–2004), American industrialist
- 1984: Horst Elfe (1917-2008), manager
- 1984: Margarete Kühn (1902–1995), art historian
- 1985: Ernst Ruska (1906–1988), inventor
- 1985: Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), inventor
- 1986: Horst Nasserke (* 1924), union official
- 1987: Carl Raddatz (1912–2004), actor
- 1987: Eberhard Roters (1929–1994), art historian
- 1987: Klaus Schütz (1926–2012), Governing Mayor (SPD)
- 1988: Klaus Mertin (1922–1996), manager, patron
- 1988: Alain Poher (1909–1996), French politician
- 1988: Julius Posener (1904–1996), architect
- 1988: Erich Saling (* 1925), doctor
- 1989: Ossip K. Flechtheim (1909–1998), political scientist
- 1989: Helmut Gollwitzer (1908–1993), theologian
- 1989: Klaus Hübner (* 1924), police chief
- 1990: Heinrich Albertz (1915–1993), Governing Mayor (SPD)
- 1990: Günter Braun (* 1928), President of Rofin-Sinar Technologies
- 1990: Karl Otto Mittelstenscheid (1916–2014), board member of Schering AG
- 1990: Berlin Brigade and 7350th Air Base Group (USA), RAF and Berlin Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom), 46 ème Regiment d'infantry and Base Aérienne 165 (France)
- 1991: Günther Bantzer (1921–2019), politician
- 1991: Joachim Bölke (1927–1994), journalist
- 1991: Heinz-Georg Klös (1926-2014), veterinarian
- 1991: Günter Matthes (1920–1995), journalist
- 1991: Inge Meysel (1910–2004), actress
- 1991: Ulrich Müller (* 1929), President of the Berlin Court of Auditors
- 1992: Ernst Heinitz (1902–1998), legal scholar
- 1992: Otto von Simson (1912–1993), President of the German UNESCO Commission
- 1993: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925–2012), opera singer
- 1993: Karlheinz Kaske (1928–1998), entrepreneur
- 1993: Ignaz Kiechle (1930–2003), former Minister of Agriculture
- 1994: Klaus Osterhof (1928–2003), entrepreneur
- 1994: Hans-Jochen Vogel (1926-2020), former Governing Mayor (SPD)
- 1994: Walter Höllerer (1922–2003), writer
- 1995: Jacques Delors (* 1925), Minister of Finance
- 1995: Wolf Jobst Siedler (1926–2013), publisher
- 1996: Karl Heinz Bröhan (1921–2000), art historian and founder of the Bröhan Museum
- 1996: Götz Friedrich (1930–2000), opera director and artistic director
- 1997: Erich Marx (* 1921), art collector and patron
- 1998: Walter Jens (1923–2013), writer
- 1998: Jerzy Kanal (1921–2015), chairman of the Berlin Jewish Community
- 1998: Klaus Töpfer (* 1938), Federal Minister (CDU)
- 2002: Stephen M. Kellen (1914–2004), banker and patron
- 2002: Kurt Sanderling (1912–2011), conductor
- 2003: Werner Otto (1909–2011), entrepreneur
- 2003: Peter Wapnewski (1922–2012), Germanist and founding rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin
- 2004: Claudio Abbado (1933–2014), conductor
- 2006: Imre Kertész (1929–2016), writer
- 2009: Lech Wałęsa (* 1943), former Polish President
- 2013: Daniel Barenboim (* 1942), conductor and general music director
- 2014: Nele Hertling (* 1934), theater director, artistic director Hebbel-Theater
- 2017: Maria Müller-Sommer (* 1922), dramaturge and stage publisher
Individual evidence
- ↑ Passionate bridge builder ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.berlin.de , accessed on September 20, 2013
