Fire Department Badge of Honor

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Steps of the fire brigade decoration of the Rhineland-Palatinate

Fire brigade decorations are awarded in the field of fire brigades for years of service, for special merits in fire protection or for particularly courageous behavior in fire fighting .

In a narrower sense, fire brigade decorations or fire protection decorations are decorations that have been donated at the level of the German and Austrian federal states since the Second World War . The Switzerland is one of the few states that does not confer orders and decorations to its citizens (since 1848), so there are also no fire brigade decorations, but only Awards.

In a broader sense, fire brigade decorations are decorations with other names that are related to the activities of fire services (e.g. badges for fire service competitions ) or awards from non-governmental bodies such as the German and Austrian state fire service associations .

Germany

Fire service medals are to be distinguished from rescue medals and flood medals .

history

In the German Reich , fire brigade decorations were introduced by the individual federal states with the development of the voluntary fire service from around 1880. After the end of the First World War , the fire brigades in the German Reich remained a matter of the state, awards such as the Bavarian Badge of Honor for outstanding performance in fire service were created .

In the Third Reich in 1936, the Reich Fire Brigade Decoration was created, a nationwide badge of honor, after the state and provincial fire brigade associations were no longer allowed to award their own. With the conversion of the fire brigades into a fire protection police as a state body subordinate to the police, the fire service badge of honor was awarded from 1938 in the then German Reich (and thus also the affiliated Austria) . Both decorations had two classes: the first class for special merits or particularly courageous behavior, the second for 25 years of service. According to the law on titles, medals and decorations of July 26, 1957, wearing the award in the Federal Republic of Germany is only permitted without National Socialist emblems.

After the end of the Second World War , the fire brigades and with them the right to award state awards in both Germany and Austria became a matter for the federal states, which introduced the corresponding fire brigade decorations.

In the GDR , the professional fire brigades belonged to the People's Police , which is why the decorations of the German People's Police were also awarded to professional fire brigade members. In the field of volunteer fire brigades there was from 1959 the medal for loyal service in the volunteer fire brigade of the GDR and Brandenburg for 10, 20 and 30 years of service. From 1978 onwards, the levels were reorganized and a further one was added for 40 years.

Fire Brigade Decoration of Honor of the German Federal States

Except in the two Hanseatic cities of Bremen and Hamburg , fire brigade decorations are awarded in all federal states.

Baden-Württemberg

  • Fire Brigade Badge of Honor in bronze (2018), silver and gold on ribbon (1956)
    • Fire department medals in silver and gold on ribbon
    • Fire brigade decoration in gold as a cross

Bavaria

Berlin

  • Fire brigade and disaster control decorations on ribbon (1978; extensions 2000 and 2016)
    • Fire brigade and civil protection badges of honor in silver, gold and gold with oak leaves with number (in five levels)
    • Fire brigade and disaster control badge of honor as a special level (plug-in cross)

Brandenburg

Hesse

  • Fire Protection Decoration (2002)
    • Fire protection badge normal level in silver and gold on ribbon
    • Fire protection badge normal level in silver and gold as a plug-in cross
    • Fire protection badge special level in silver and gold on ribbon
    • Fire protection badge special grade in silver as a plug-in cross
  • Hessian fire service badge (1966)

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

  • Fire Protection Decoration (1993)
    • Fire protection bar of honor
    • Fire protection decorations in silver and gold on ribbon
    • Fire protection badge of honor special level as a plug-in cross

Lower Saxony

  • Fire service honor mark (1954; expansion 2013)
    • Fire service honor mark for many years of service in silver, silver-gold and gold
    • Fire service honor mark for merit on the ribbon
    • Fire service honor mark for merits in silver and gold on ribbon
    • Fire service honor mark special level as a plug-in cross
    • Fire service honor mark for civilians

North Rhine-Westphalia

  • Fire Brigade Decoration (1954; expansion 2016)
    • Fire department medals in silver, gold and gold with a gold wreath on the ribbon
  • Fire department decorations and disaster control decorations as a plug-in cross (2016)
  • Fire and Disaster Protection Merit Badge of Honor
    • Fire and Disaster Protection Merit Decoration in silver and gold as a plug-in cross (2016)
  • Fire brigade and disaster control sign (2016)

Rhineland-Palatinate

Saarland

  • Fire Brigade Decoration (1959)
    • Fire department medals in silver and gold on ribbon
    • Fire brigade decoration in gold as a cross
  • Fire Service Badge (1975)

Saxony

Saxony-Anhalt

  • Fire protection and disaster protection badge of honor of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (2005; fire protection badge from 1993)
    • Fire protection and disaster control medals in silver and gold on ribbon
    • Fire protection and disaster control medals in gold as a cross
  • Pin for many years of work in fire protection in bronze, silver, gold, silver with oak leaves and gold with oak leaves (1993; expanded in 2005)
  • Fire brigade brace of the country (1998)

Schleswig-Holstein

Thuringia

  • Fire protection honor (1992)
    • Fire protection medal
    • Fire protection decorations in silver and gold on the ribbon
    • Fire protection symbols in silver and gold as a cross
  • Fire service badge in bronze, silver and gold (1997)

Decorations of honor awarded by non-governmental agencies

German Fire Brigade Cross of Honor in silver

Youth fire brigade

Operations department

Austria

Decoration of honor for many years of meritorious work in the field of fire and rescue services in Lower Austria

In Austria , the First Republic abolished the Imperial Medal of Honor in 1918, and in 1923 the “Austrian Medal for many years of zealous and fruitful activity in the field of fire and rescue services” was created.

In Austria-Hungary , a "Medal of Honor for twenty-five years of meritorious activity in the field of fire and rescue services" was donated only by the highest resolution on November 24, 1905 .

  • Austrian Fire Brigade Decoration (existed in this form and designation only until 1938)
  • State awards (from 1950)
    • Medal for merits in the Viennese fire and rescue services
    • Medal for fruitful activity in the field of fire and rescue services ( Tyrol )
    • Medal for many years of zealous and fruitful activity in the field of fire and rescue services in the state of Salzburg
    • Fire Brigade Medal of the State of Vorarlberg
    • Carinthian medal for services in the fire and rescue service
    • Carinthian Cross of Honor for special achievements in the fire service
    • Decoration of honor for many years of meritorious work in the field of fire and rescue services ( Lower Austria )
    • Medal for many years of zealous and fruitful activity in the field of fire and rescue services ( Styria )
    • Upper Austrian fire service medal
    • Upper Austrian Fire Brigade Merit Cross
    • Medal of Honor for many years of work in the field of fire fighting ( Burgenland )

CTIF

The International Technical Committee for Preventive Fire Protection and Fire Extinguishing ( CTIF ) awards groups that take part in the International Fire Brigade Sports Competitions or Traditional International Fire Brigade Competitions , which take place every four years , depending on the ranking (thirds of the total number of participants)

  • large international competition medal in bronze, silver or gold.

The individual competitors of the teams in places 1 to 3 at the International Fire Brigade Sports Competitions will be given the

awarded at an award ceremony .

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