Mine Rescue Decoration (1938)
The mine service badge was a state award of the German Reich for merited miners or members of a mine service . It was donated by Adolf Hitler on January 30, 1938 ; the design for the medal came from the graphic artist and caricaturist Professor Hans Schweitzer .
prehistory
Mine rescue men in Germany have already been recognized for their achievements, although this mostly happened at the state level and in a wide variety of ways. For example, on April 17, 1934, the Prussian Minister of Economics donated its own award (the mine commemorative badge of the Free State of Prussia ). On November 13, 1936, the Reichsgrubenwehr badge of honor was introduced , which was awarded uniformly throughout Germany by the Reich Minister of Economics. At the beginning of 1938, Hitler converted this award into a badge of honor awarded "in the name of the Führer" with a different appearance. With the creation of a new mine service badge on January 30, 1938, the granting of the Reichsgrubenwehr badge was prohibited. The full wording of the ordinance in the Reichsgesetzblatt Part I, page 83 of January 30, 1938 reads:
Ordinance on the award of the Mine Rescue Decoration
On the basis of § 3 of the law on titles, medals and decorations of July 1, 1937 (Reichsgesetzblatt Part I, page 725) I prescribe:
- § 1: As recognition for services to the mine rescue service, I award the mine rescue honor badge.
- § 2: The Mine Rescue Decoration is awarded:
- 1. to members of a mine rescue service who have served in a mine rescue service for fifteen years without reproach;
- 2. to members of a mine rescue service with a shorter period of service if they have to leave the service of the service due to an accident;
- 3. To members of a mine rescue service or other miners for particularly courageous and determined behavior in the service of the defense or rescue work.
- § 3: The mine guard's badge of honor consists of a silver medal with the emblem of the Reich in front of a crossed mallet and iron on the front, and the inscription for merit in the mine guard on the back . It is worn on the orange, black edged and white lined ribbon in the buttonhole or on the medal buckle on the left side of the chest. If the mine rescue honor badge is worn on the medal buckle, it must be affixed to the place prescribed for state service awards.
- § 4: The entrusted person receives an award certificate about the award of the mine rescue honor. The state minister and head of the presidential chancellery issued the certificate of the award of the honorary mark on my behalf.
- § 5: The mine guard's badge of honor becomes the property of the borrower. His surviving dependents are not obliged to return them.
- Section 6: The provisions on the creation and awarding of a Reichsgrubenwehr honorary mark of November 13, 1936 (Deutscher Reichsanzeiger and Prussian State Gazette No. 270) are repealed.
- § 7: I will issue the implementing regulations.
- Berlin, January 30, 1938. The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler, the Reich Minister of the Interior Frick, the Reich Economics Minister (in charge of running the business) Goering Prussian Prime Minister.
Implementing ordinance for the ordinance on the award of the Mine Rescue Decoration
On the same date as the ordinance of January 30, 1938, the implementing ordinance was issued, which was in its full wording:
On the basis of § 7 of the law on titles, medals and decorations of July 1, 1937 (Reichsgesetzblatt Part I, page 725) and Article 7 of the ordinance on the awarding of the mine service badge of honor of January 30, 1938 (Reichsgesetzblatt Part I, page 83) I arrange:
- § 1: The proposals for the award of the mine rescue badge are listed alphabetically by the Reich Minister of Economics in duplicate according to the attached form at least quarterly, according to districts of the upper mining authorities or, if none exist, according to districts of the highest state mining authorities and within these districts, to the Minister of State and head of my Presidential Chancellery for the purpose of obtaining my decision. Forms of the system are available from the Reichsdruckerei.
- § 2: The proposals for the awarding of the Mine Rescue Decoration must be justified in detail.
- § 3: In order to be able to determine at any time which persons have been awarded the Mine Rescue Decoration, the upper (supreme) mining authorities have to keep a register in which the persons concerned are to be entered.
- § 4: The state or Reichsgrubenwehr decorations that have already been awarded will not be exchanged.
- § 5: The minister of state and head of my presidential chancellery send the miners' honorary decorations and the award certificates to the Reich Minister of Economics to arrange for them to be handed over.
- § 6: The borrowed persons have to issue a confirmation of receipt of the mine rescue decoration. The Presidential Chancellery provides forms to which the certificates for the Reich Minister of Economics are to be returned.
- § 7: Lost mine rescue decorations will not be replaced. The owner is entitled to obtain a replacement piece at his own expense.
- Berlin, January 30, 1938. The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler, the Reich Minister of the Interior Frick, the Reich Economics Minister (in charge of running the business) Goering Prussian Prime Minister.
Others
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.
literature
- Doehle : The awards of the Greater German Reich , ISBN 3931533433
- Reichsgesetzblatt, page 83, ordinance on the awarding of the Mine Rescue Decoration from January 30, 1938
- Reichsgesetzblatt, page 84, implementing regulation for the ordinance on the awarding of the Mine Guard Medal of Honor of January 30, 1938
See also
Web links
- Fire Department Badge of Honor
- Detailed description of the Reichsgrubenwehr medals and medals of honor
- http://www.fw-chronik.de/2009-01-hq.pdf
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jörg Nimmergut German medals and decorations until 1945. Central Office for Scientific Order Studies, Volume IV, page 1933, Notes section, Munich, ISBN 3-00-001396-2
- ↑ Jörg Nimmergut German medals and decorations until 1945. Central Office for Scientific Order Studies, Volume IV, page 1932, section Reichsgrubenwehr Decoration of Honor - Foundation, Munich, ISBN 3-00-001396-2