Commemorative medal for the adoption of the Weimar Constitution in 1919

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Woman portrait on the front of the coin, of Heinrich Waderé modeled after Marie Juchacz designed
The reverse of the commemorative medal: bundle of rods with torch and inscriptions

The commemorative medal for the adoption of the Weimar Constitution in 1919 was issued to commemorate the resolution of the Weimar Constitution on July 31, 1919 by the National Assembly meeting in Weimar .

description

front

On the front of the medal there is a representation of Germania as a symbolic figure of the Germans . The model for this portrait was Marie Juchacz , herself a member of the Weimar National Assembly, social democrat , women's rights activist and social reformer .

The female profile turned to the left is not accompanied by any explanatory inscription or legend. The woman's hair that blows back is covered with a headscarf. “The symbolic figure of the young republic looks into the future with anticipation”, interprets the exhibition catalog of the German Historical Museum Berlin for the exhibition The World War 1914–1918. Event and memory the representation.

back

The reverse of the medal shows a bundle of rods with a burning torch in the middle , which is surrounded by a two-line horizontal inscription:

" NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WEIMAR · 31 · JULY · 1919 "

The wording of Article 1 of the new constitution runs in the margin: The German Reich is a republic. State power emanates from the people. (Reading direction from the bottom center clockwise):

" THE · GERMAN · REICH · IS · A · REPUBLIC · THE · STATE VIOLENCE · IS · FROM · THE · PEOPLE · "

Medalist

The unsigned cast bronze medal was designed by the Munich medalist Heinrich Waderé , who created several designs in advance. The Bavarian National Museum in Munich has the approximately 8 cm plaster model of a design that was not realized in this way, in which the front of the medal has a portrait of a woman with the text “ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE GERMAN REICH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WEIMAR 31. JULY 1919 ”and contained the signature Waderés on the right below the portrait of the woman, while the reverse already corresponded to the final appearance of the medal.

Medals at the National Assembly in session

Numerous medals at the National Assembly meeting in the Weimar National Theater express themselves in a broad spectrum between pathos and ridicule of the event. A plaque designed by Carl Ebbinghaus shows three graces (truth, freedom, law) on the front with the text In peace now work as time desires as a cheerful, optimistic variant.

literature

  • Helmut Caspar: Unity and law and freedom. A journey through the history of coins and money in the Weimar Republic. money trend Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-9502268-0-5 , p. 50.
  • The World War 1914–1918. Event and memory. Exhibition catalog. Published by Rainer Rother on behalf of the German Historical Museum. Edition Minerva Hermann Farnung, Berlin 2004, p. 257.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcus Llanque: The iconographic mediation of difference in self-government regimes . In: Sebastian Huhnholz and Eva Marlene Hausteiner (Eds.): Political Iconography and Difference Representation . Special volume of "Leviathan. Berlin Journal for Social Science", No. 34 . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3-8487-4277-6 , pp. 60-61 ( online ).
  2. ↑ On behalf of the German Historical Museum, published by Rainer Rother (ed.): The World War 1914–1918. Event and memory. Exhibition catalog. Edition Minerva Hermann Farnung, Berlin 2004, p. 257 ( online ).
  3. ^ Bavarian National Museum Munich: plaster model of a commemorative medal for the Weimar National Assembly (VS). Retrieved October 3, 2018 .
  4. ^ Bavarian National Museum Munich: plaster model of a commemorative medal for the Weimar National Assembly (RS). Retrieved October 3, 2018 .
  5. ^ Medal on the Weimar National Assembly, 1919 website of the German Historical Museum , accessed on October 4, 2018