Jörg Nimmergut

Jörg Nimmergut (* 1939 in Berlin ) is a German non-fiction author who is best known for his publications on medals and decorations and militaria . His main work is the five-volume edition of German Orders and Decorations up to 1945.

Live and act

Jörg Nimmergut initially studied pedagogy in Berlin and Romance and German in Munich . He later attended the Bavarian Academy for Advertising and Marketing. In 1964 he founded his own advertising agency in Munich, which he managed until 2006. Because of his first book Werben mit Sex (1966), an investigation was initiated against him for “disseminating lewd writings”. Then he wrote the multiple school of successful applications .

From the mid-1970s he turned to religious orders . In 1982 he opened an order museum in Neuffen and from 1987 to 1992 was director and curator of the German order museum in Lüdenscheid . Jörg Nimmergut was a publicly appointed and sworn expert for German medals and decorations from 1993 to 2007 and is a member of the scientific advisory board of the German Society for Religious Studies.

Jörg Nimmergut lives in Munich.

Awards

• 1964: IAA Youth Award from the International Advertising Association at the World Advertising Congress in New York (as the first German)
• 1988: Rubens Medal for Art and Culture (Belgium)
• 1992: von Hessenthal Prize for Phaleristics from the Association of German Order Collectors
• 2001: Badge for special merits of the Austrian Society for Religious Studies

Fonts

• Advertise with sex. Verlag Moderne Industrie, Munich 1966. New edition: Heyne, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-453-53132-9 .
• The school of successful application. Heyne, Munich 1972. 10th edition: 1992, ISBN 3-453-05912-3 .
• Germany in numbers. Heyne, Munich 1972. New edition: 1973, ISBN 3-453-53025-X .
• Germany catalog medals and decorations from 1800–1945. Nimmergut, Munich 1977.
  • 22nd edition with Anke Nimmergut under the title German Order and Decoration 1800–1945. Battenberg, Regenstauf 2019, ISBN 978-3-86646-177-2 .
• German medals. Heyne, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-453-41313-X . 2nd edition 1982.
• Order of Europe. Battenberg, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-87045-184-X . 4th edition: Battenberg, Regenstauf 2007.
• German militaria. Heyne, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-453-41461-6 .
• The iron cross 1813–1939 (= present and history of the labeling system. Part 3). German Order Museum, Lüdenscheid 1990.
• Historical securities. Battenberg, Augsburg 1991, ISBN 3-89441-042-6 .
• German medals and decorations until 1945. Central Office for Scientific Order Studies, Munich, ISBN 3-00-001396-2 .

Volume 1: Anhalt - Hohenzollern. 1997.

Volume 2: Limburg - Reuss. 1997.

Volume 3: Saxony - Württemberg (1). 1999.

Volume 4: Württemberg (2) - German Empire. 2001.

Volume 5: Addendum Anhalt - German Empire, Register. 2004.

• Volume catalog. Battenberg, Regenstauf 2008, ISBN 978-3-86646-031-7 .
• Bibliography on German Phaleristics. Overview of the entire literature on German orders and decorations up to December 31, 2007. Battenberg, Regenstauf 2010, ISBN 978-3-86646-060-7 .
• Badges and awards of German war clubs 1800–1943. Battenberg, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-093-5 .
• Zaharoff - The chameleon. Factual novel. Self-published, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-061882-6 .

Editorships

• Gert Efler: German Fire Brigade Decoration 1802 – now (= present and history of the award system. Part 1). German Order Museum, Lüdenscheid 1988.
• Manfred Schemeit: Decoration of Honor German Red Cross 1866 – now (= present and history of the award system. Part 4). German Order Museum, Lüdenscheid 1989.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg Nimmergut in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jörg Nimmergut on the Gietl-Verlag website
• Jörg Nimmergut on the website of the German Society for Religious Orders

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Naked on the advertising island. In: Advertise & Sell . March 20, 2003, p. 86.