Order of Olga
The Olga Order was donated by King Karl von Württemberg on June 27, 1871, mainly to honor women who excelled in caring for wounded soldiers in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. According to the statutes of the order, as they are printed in the State Handbook 1892, the order is awarded "for special merits in the field of voluntary helping love in war or peace as a sign of recognition and remembrance, and that without distinction to men, women and virgins".
The medal is a matte silver cross with clover-shaped arms and a red cross. The first letters of the names of the king and queen KO (Karl and Olga) are entwined on the obverse of the middle shield, and on the reverse the dates 1870 1871 .
The ribbon is black moiré and edged with carmine red and is worn by men in the buttonhole, while women wear the order cross on a ribbon bow on the left breast.
It is not to be confused with the Karl Olga Medal donated in 1889 for services to the Red Cross .
Known porters
see: Category: Bearers of the Order of Olga
literature
- Tagore, Rajah Sir Sourindro Mohun: The Orders of Knighthood, British and Foreign . Calcutta, India: The Catholic Orphan Press, 1884
- Maximilian Gritzner : Handbook of the knight and merit orders of all civilized states of the world within the XIX. Century. Compiled from official and other reliable sources. JJ Weber's publishing bookstore, Leipzig 1893.
- Jörg Nimmergut : Germany catalog. 2002.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1892. p. 25.