General Decoration of Honor (Hanover)
The General Decoration of Honor of the Kingdom of Hanover was donated on June 5, 1841 by King Ernst August von Hanover in two departments:
- for military merit
- for civil earnings
Both medals are made of silver and show in the middle the crowned and entwined initials of the founder EAR (Ernst August Rex). On the reverse of the medal for military merit, within a laurel wreath, KRIEGER-MERDIENST can be read. The medal for civil merits is surrounded by an oak wreath, MERIT UMS FATHERLAND .
The award for military merit was worn on a white ribbon with yellow side stripes, the award for civil merit on a white ribbon with yellow side and black stripes on the left chest.
literature
- LJ Trost: The knights and merit orders, decorations and medals of all sovereigns and states since the beginning of the XIX. Century. Braumüller, Vienna et al. 1910 (reprint: PHV - Phaleristischer Verlag Autengruber, Offenbach am Main 1998, ISBN 3-932543-30-0 ( Classics of Phaleristics 9)).
- Court and State Handbook for the Kingdom of Hanover for the year 1865. Hanover: Druck und Verlag der Berenbergschen Buchdruckerei, Theaterplatz Nr. 1, [1864?], P. 36; Digitized via Google books