Commemorative coin Bene Merenti
The Bene Merenti is a golden commemorative coin designed by Adolph von Menzel and the highest award of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck . It shows the allegorical city goddess Lubeca .
With this coin, the city honors people in and around Lübeck for outstanding service. The Latin name means "the well-deserved" in German. You should time of their creation as an alternative against the feudal dominated Merit apply, especially since the adoption of the Order in the Hanseatic cities , apart from the Hanseatic Cross in the First World War , was controversial and has been widely frowned upon. At the same time, it was a replacement for the heavy gold coins from Portugalos , which were common in the Hanseatic cities in the 16th and 17th centuries and valued at ten ducats , which were minted by the Lübeck mint in the 17th and 18th centuries as half Portugalos. After the closure of the Lübeck Mint (1801), the Hanseatic Gold Medal was awarded for a while , but this met with reservations because of the increasing lack of reference to the wars of liberation associated with it .
The Prussian mint councilor and medalist Gottfried Bernhard Loos , who had already made the commemorative coin of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in 1832 , was responsible for the design of the Lübeck medal coin, which was based on a design drawing by young Adolph Menzel . The obverse of the medal shows the allegory of Lubeca as a classical female figure with a bundle of lictors as a sign of state power, supplemented by an anchor and ship's bow, symbolizing the trading and shipping city, and the inscription BENE MERENTI . The reverse shows the large national coat of arms with the text SENATVS REIPVBLICAE LVBICENSIS . Since its creation in 1835 by the Lübeck Senate, the coin has been awarded 57 times. Lisa Dräger was the first woman to receive the medal in 2005. The commemorative medal was awarded twice to organizations: in 1889 to the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities and in 2019 to the Possehl Foundation , each on the occasion of its centenary.
Owner of the commemorative coin since 1835
| Name and dates of life | Year of award | Special features and comments | Illustration |
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Johann Friedrich Petersen (the Elder) (1760–1845) |
1835 for the 50th anniversary in office |
Chief Pastor at Lübeck Cathedral . Director of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities . Founder and head of the teachers' seminar. |
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Carl Wilhelm Niemeyer († 1843) |
1838 | Preacher at St. Aegidien , editor of the Lübeck hymn book | |
| Johann Smidt | 1841 | Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Bremen |
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Karl Sieveking († 1847) |
1841 | Syndic and diplomat of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg , brother of the Hamburg Mayor Friedrich Sieveking . |
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| Christian Heinrich Kindler | 1842 | Mayor of Lübeck |
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Hermann Friedrich Behn († 1846) |
1843 | Senior of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck |
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| Vincent Rumpff | 1844 | Hanseatic Minister-Resident at the French Court in Paris. Honorary citizen of all three Hanseatic cities. | |
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Paul Christian Nicolaus Lembcke († 1848) |
1847 | Lower Court Procurator. 1801 one of the co-founders of the seaside resort in Travemünde . | |
| Johann Friedrich Hach | 1850 | An important diplomat in the city, resigned from the council to remain a judge. Higher Appeal Judge . Director of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities. |
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| Carl Georg Curtius | 1851 | Lübeck lawyer with 50 years of experience | |
| Bernhard Heinrich Frister | 1856 | Mayor of Lübeck | |
| Carl Heinrich Ahrens | 1862 | Senior adjutant and lieutenant colonel of the Lübeck Citizens Guard and at the same time fire director of the Lübeck fire department . He began his military career as a volunteer hunter in the Hanseatic Legion . He created the city's modern fire service. |
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| Carl Georg Behrens | 1863 | Lieutenant Colonel of the Lübeck Civil Guard and Commander of the Lübeck Infantry Battalion in the federal contingent |
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| Karl Ludwig Roeck | 1864 | Mayor of Lübeck |
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Ludwig Müller (1782–1865) |
1865 | Lübeck senator, councilor since 1818. Elder of the Novgorod drivers. As a senator from the merchant class, he actually wanted to resign for health reasons as early as 1852, but was persuaded to stay because of his experience and knowledge of financial matters. |
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| Johann Joachim Friedrich Torkuhl | 1865 | Mayor of Lübeck | |
| Heinrich Brehmer | 1870 | Mayor of Lübeck |
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Carl Wilhelm Pauli († 1879) |
1870 | Appeals judge and historian | |
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Johann Carl Lindenberg († 1892) |
1871 | Senior of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck |
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| Peter Ludwig Elder | 1873 | Lübeck syndic , from 1852 senator of the Hanseatic city. Engaged in connection with the Danish reservations about the railway line to Büchen in 1847. |
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Peter Hermann Münzenberger († 1886) |
1882 | Pastor to St. Marien . Was active in the pastoral care of his community for 52 years and headed several institutions of the society for the promotion of charitable activities that he initiated | |
| Hermann Lingnau | 1883 | Lübeck Post Director |
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| Theodor Curtius | 1885 | Mayor of Lübeck |
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| Anton Ferdinand Benda | 1887 | Director of the Lübeck-Büchener Railway | |
| Carl Friedrich Wehrmann | 1889 | Head of the Lübeck State Archives |
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Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities founded in 1789 |
1889 | (Legal association of old Lübeck law) |
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| Friedrich Kruger | 1893 | Hanseatic envoy at the Prussian court in Berlin. Contributed to the abolition of the sound tariff at the Copenhagen conference in 1857 . |
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| Georg Claussen (lawyer) (1819–1898) | 1895 | Regional court director of the Oldenburg-Lübeck regional court | |
| Heinrich Theodor Behn | 1895 | Mayor of Lübeck |
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| Karl Hoppenstedt (1834-1910) | 1899 | District Court President of the District Court of Lübeck | |
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Richard Krieger († 1906) |
1900 | Lübeck chief customs director from Altona . As Prussian chief tax director in Altona from 1883 to 1901, he worked part-time for Lübeck through the establishment and management of its new state customs administration under new imperial law. |
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| Wilhelm Brehmer | 1901 | Mayor of Lübeck. Director of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities. |
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| Heinrich Klug | 1904 | Mayor of Lübeck. Director of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities. |
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| Peter Rehder | 1910 | Lübeck senior construction director. As director of hydraulic engineering, he was responsible for corrections to the Trave and the expansion of the medieval Stecknitz Canal into the Elbe-Lübeck Canal . |
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| Johann Georg Eschenburg | 1910 | Mayor of Lübeck. Director of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities. |
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Karl Peter Klügmann (1835–1915) |
1913 | 1869 member of the Lübeck citizenship . 1874 to 1880 member of the Reichstag for the National Liberals. 1880 to 1895 Senator from Lübeck. Then as successor to Krüger's Hanseatic envoy at the Prussian court in Berlin, Lübeck's voting right leader in the Bundesrat . |
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| Johann Hermann Eschenburg | 1914 | Mayor of Lübeck |
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| Emil Ferdinand Fehling | 1917 | Lübeck mayor and honored city historian. Director of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities. |
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| Ferdinand Frensdorff | 1917 | Legal historian and professor of German law at the University of Göttingen specializing in the Hanseatic League and Hanseatic Cities | |
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Heinrich Görtz († 1937) |
1918 | Lawyer, member of the Reichstag, member of the citizenry |
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Eduard Rabe (1844–1920) |
1918 | Lübeck Senator since 1905, responsible for the administration of the real estate division. |
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| Johannes Daniel Benda | 1919 | First public prosecutor in Lübeck. Director of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities. | |
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Alfred Stooß (1853–1927) |
1923 | Senator in Lübeck since 1897, as a lawyer headed the building management from 1908 to 1925. |
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| Dietrich Schäfer | 1925 | Professor of History in Berlin. Well-known Hanseatic researcher of his time. |
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| Martin Donandt | 1927 | Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Bremen. At the same time, he was also honored by Hamburg for promoting joint Hanseatic concerns. | |
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Hermann Eschenburg († 1954) |
1952 | President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry | |
| Georg Kalkbrenner | 1955 | Lübeck Senator for Finance |
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| Otto Passarge | 1961 | Mayor of Lübeck |
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| Adolf Ehrtmann | 1970 | senator | |
| Gerhard Gaul | 1982 | City President | |
| Uwe Röhl | 1998 | 1971 first rector of the Lübeck State University of Music, since 1973 Lübeck University of Music , organist at Lübeck Cathedral | |
| Friedhelm Döhl | 2001 | Composer, rector of the Lübeck University of Music from 1991 to 1994, founder of the Brahms Festival | |
| Claus-Achim Eschke | 2001 | Finnish honorary consul and shipowner in Lübeck | |
| Robert Knüppel | 2002 | mayor |
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| Lisa Dräger | 2005 | "Grande Dame Lübecks" (Mayor Sünnenwold in his laudation), wife of the industrialist Heinrich Dräger , who works in various charities , first female holder of the award (55th award, 9th since 1949) | |
| Christian Dräger | August 30, 2014 | Entrepreneurs and patrons | |
| Possehl Foundation | 18th December 2019 | Non-profit foundation from the estate of the businessman Emil Possehl |
literature
- Ahasver von Brandt : Bene Merenti - A Lübisches decoration, its history and its owner . In: The car . 1958, pp. 58-64.
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling: Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925.
- Antjekathrin Graßmann (Ed.): Lübeck Lexikon. Lübeck 2006.
Individual evidence
- ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 20, 1842, Part 2, 1844, p. 934 No. 335
- ↑ Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck Syndicates and Council Secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851. In: ZVLGA , Volume 29 (1938), p. 91 (116 ff.).
- ↑ (* October 11, 1795 in Lübeck; † September 21, 1880 in Ratzeburg-St. Georgsberg); Rahtgens, HG: Portrait of Ahrens . Europeana. Retrieved June 28, 2015.
- ^ Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line . Lübeck 1925, No. 967
- ^ Note from Friedrich Bruns, not listed in the advice line of Fehling. See: The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851. In: ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), p. 91 (117 ff.).
- ^ Emil Ferdinand Fehling , Lübeckische Ratslinie, Lübeck 1925, No. 1014
- ↑ Press release , accessed on August 30, 2014
- ↑ Possehl Foundation receives medal of honor from the Hanseatic city. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .