Hamburg Medal of Honor

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The Hamburg Honor Medal is an award from the Hamburg Senate for citizens of the Hanseatic city. In gold it is the highest honor according to the honorary citizenship. In silver, it is awarded to people who have made special contributions to the protection of life and property.

description

The obverse of the medal shows the right profile of the Hammonia , wearing a laurel wreath and a wall crown. On the back there is a large laurel and oak wreath, which is held together by ribbons. It also shows the Hamburg city arms.

The inner area of ​​the coin was free before it was awarded. With the silver version, it was engraved with a matching dedication. The gold medals were marked with a dedication.

history

The Hamburg council decided on July 21, 1853 to award a medal of honor. The award was initially only valid for non-Hamburg residents who had rescued people from distress at sea. On special occasions, citizens of Hamburg who had earned services outside of the Hanseatic city and had increased the city's reputation could also receive the coin.

The design of the award came from the medalist Heinrich Bubert , who worked for the Berlin medalist Gottfried Bernhard Loos from 1851 to 1857 . The initially silver coin was also awarded in the golden form from 1855 onwards. At the end of the First World War, there was also an iron version.

Well-known award winners

The first silver coin went to Herm in 1858. Célestine Isidore Nivert, who had served as second captain on the French barque Maurice . The Africa explorer Heinrich Barth received the first gold version on October 1st, 1855 . The only documented iron specimen was received in 1917 by General Max von Boehn . From 1938 (until 1945?) The coin was also awarded in bronze. In 1939, for example, she received the Association for Hamburg History .

Medal of honor in gold

Prize winners of the golden coin were:

From the end of World War II to 2008, eight gold coins were awarded. By 2019 there were a total of 38.

Medal of honor in silver

The Hamburg Medal of Honor in silver was first awarded in 1858. Before the Hamburg Rescue Medal was founded in 1903, it was given as an award for rescue from distress at sea, a total of 22 times between 1858 and 1871. With one exception, the winners were captains and other crew members of foreign ships and boats that had rescued the crew and (less often) passengers from Hamburg ships from distress. Only in 1861 was the honorary coin awarded to the captain of a Hamburg ship.

  • 1858: Herm. Célestine Isidore Nivert, second captain of the French barque "Maurice"
  • 1858: Ferdinand Bertheau, lieutenant on the same ship
  • 1858: Marcus S. Jacobsen, first mate of the Norwegian barque "Catharina"
  • 1858: Ole Peter Pedersen, second mate of the same ship - all four to rescue the passengers of the " Austria "
  • 1859: Jean Pierre Gueule, leader of a fishing boat, for rescuing the crew of the Hamburg ship "Carl Staegemann"
  • 1859: Thomas, William and David Davies from Swansea, British fishermen, for rescuing the crew of the Hamburg ship "Stadfeldt"
  • 1860: George McMillan, captain of the British steam boat "Sir James Brook" for rescuing the crew of the Hamburg ship "Helene"
  • 1861: John Tye, captain of the British ship "Tryal", for rescuing the crew of the Hamburg ship "Hansa"
  • 1861: Hein von Appen, captain of the Hamburg ship "Alliance" for rescuing the crew of the Hamburg ship "Ar"
  • 1862: Jens Jacob Nicolai Wilse, captain of the Norwegian ship "Hazard", for rescuing the crew of the Hamburg ship "Friederike Christine"
  • 1862: M. Pasmore, captain of the British ship "Solent" and
  • 1862: GP Lass, first mate of the same ship, for rescuing the crew of the Hamburg ship "Beatus"
  • 1864: VG Morvan, captain of the French ship "Venus", for rescuing the crew of the Hamburg ship "Sir Robert Peel"
  • 1864: Edward Wilds, commander of the British warship "Swallow", for rescuing the crew of the Hamburg ship "Hamlet"
  • 1864: Eugenio Sanchez y Zayas, commander of the Spanish corvette “Navarez”, provided assistance for the Hamburg ship “Malvina Vidal”
  • 1865: Arie Weltevreden, Dutch skipper, for rescuing the crew of the Hamburg steamship "Archimedes"
  • 1866: Juan Baptista Bescos, captain of the Spanish schooner "Trafalgar" for the rescue of the Hamburg ship "Jacatra"
  • 1867: H. Henrichsen, captain of the Norwegian barque "Der 30. September" for rescuing the crew of the Hamburg ship "Humboldt"
  • 1868: Nielsen, captain of the Danish ship "Doris Brodersen", for rescuing the crew of the Hamburg ship "Emma"
  • 1871: Viacava, captain of the ship "Nuova Gemma", for the rescue of the crew of the Hamburg ship "Carl"

After this time, the silver medal of honor was only awarded again in 1942. The recipient was the Royal Danish Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Minister Marinus Yde on the occasion of the “Rosenborg” foundation he founded (near Börnsen ) as well as other unspecified “outstanding support”.

The last winners of this award are people who have achieved significant achievements in defusing and clearing the numerous bombs and explosive devices from the Second World War in Hamburg :

Medal of honor in bronze

The Hamburg Medal of Honor in bronze was donated and awarded for the first time in 1938 (then referred to as the "Medal of Honor"). 157 people had been awarded by 1942; in addition, awards took place until at least 1943.

Award winners (selection):

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (Ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , p. 299.
  2. ^ Franklin Kopitzsch, Daniel Tilgner (ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , pp. 299-300.
  3. ^ A b c Franklin Kopitzsch, Daniel Tilgner (Ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , p. 300.
  4. ↑ Awards and prizes (Hamburg address book 1941, page 6), digitized version , accessed on February 24, 2020
  5. ↑ Cipriano Francisco Gaedechens (arrangement): Hamburg coins and medals. Dept. 3. Additions and continuation . J. A. Meißner, Hamburg 1876, p. 158f.
  6. ↑ Göring, Frick and Raeder in the Hamburg address book 1940 , where the medal of honor is referred to as the "Gold Medal of Honor"; accessed on March 1, 2020
  7. ↑ Senate Chancellery of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg: Senate honors the Hamburg citizens Esther Bejarano and Peggy Parnass. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Cipriano Francisco Gaedechens (arrangement): Hamburg coins and medals. Dept. 3. Additions and continuation . J. A. Meißner, Hamburg 1876, p. 159f.
  9. ↑ die-deutschen-orden.de , accessed on March 1, 2020
  10. ↑ komba-hamburg.de PDF, page 4, accessed on March 1, 2020
  11. ^ Directory at staatsarchiv.hamburg.de , accessed on April 6, 2020
  12. ↑ Note from staatsarchiv.hamburg.de , accessed on April 6, 2020
  13. ↑ Note from staatsarchiv.hamburg.de , accessed on April 6, 2020
  14. ↑ Note from staatsarchiv.hamburg.de , accessed on April 6, 2020
  15. ↑ Note from staatsarchiv.hamburg.de , accessed on April 6, 2020
  16. ↑ Note from staatsarchiv.hamburg.de , accessed on April 6, 2020
  17. ↑ Note from staatsarchiv.hamburg.de , accessed on April 6, 2020

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