Gold Medal of Honor for Art and Science

The Gold Medal of Honor for Art and Science was donated by King Ernst August I of Hanover on April 30, 1843 . It could be awarded to women and men alike who had made a lasting contribution to art and science in the Kingdom of Hanover.

description

The medal is made of gold and on the front is the portrait of the reigning King of Hanover as well as his name (e.g. ERNST AUGUST KOENIG VON HANNOVER) all around . The back shows an oak wreath with the words in the middle FÜR KUNST UND WISSENSCHAFT. At times the reverse was embossed without a wreath.

The ribbon is dark blue and the award was worn on the left chest.

The medal has a diameter of 50 millimeters and a weight of around 88 to 90 grams. The recipient's name has been engraved around the edge so that each medal is unique.

The first medals from the years 1843 to 1846 showed the profile picture of King Ernst August created by the Berlin medalist Henri François Brandt . In 1846 and 1847, the stamps of the engraver and stone cutter JF Fickenscher were used temporarily, and from 1847 the classic Provil des König made by the coin engraver and goldsmith Heinrich Brehmer .

Honors

In the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover for 1866 , which was also the last of the Kingdom of Hanover , the winners of Hanoverian medals, including the Golden Medal of Honor for Art and Science, were listed, among them

Portrait painter and professor Conrad L'Allemand ;
Senator and print shop owner Friedrich Culemann ;
Conservateur of the Kgl. Münzkabinett Archivrat Karl Grotefend ;
Court actor Karl Devrient ;
Building Councilor Conrad Wilhelm Hase ;
Concert director a. D. Joseph Joachim ;
Archives Councilor Onno Klopp ;
Painter Edmund Koken ;
Music director Otto Heinrich Lange ;
Chamber singer Albert Niemann ;
Supreme Court Director August Karl Ernst von Werlhof .
Heinrich Brehmer , medalist of the Royal Hanoverian coin , received the medal in 1857 by King George V awarded.

However, King George V also awarded the medal from exile . Up to the year 1875 a total of 89 medals were awarded (research status: around 1986).

literature

Karl Hermann von Heyden : Sign of honor (war memorial, merit and seniority sign) of the extinct and flourishing states of Germany and Austria-Hungary , Meiningen 1897

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Karl Hermann von Heyden: Mark of honor (war memorial, merit and seniority mark) of the extinct and prosperous states of Germany and Austria-Hungary , Meiningen 1897
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e Franz Rudolf Zankl : Medal of Honor for Art and Science. In: Hanover Archive , sheet K 34
^ Hugo Thielen : Brehmer, Heinrich Friedrich. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 82.

[Ehren-Zeichen-1] Karl Hermann von Heyden: Mark of honor (war memorial, merit and seniority mark) of the extinct and prosperous states of Germany and Austria-Hungary , Meiningen 1897

[Hannover_Archiv-2] A ^b ^c ^d ^e Franz Rudolf Zankl : Medal of Honor for Art and Science. In: Hanover Archive , sheet K 34

[3] Hugo Thielen : Brehmer, Heinrich Friedrich. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 82.