German Olympic medal of honor
The Olympic Medal of Honor was donated by the ordinance of the Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler of February 4, 1936 (RGBl. I 51) as a special award for achievements in bringing about the Olympic Games in 1936 and awarded for services to the summer and winter games transferred to Germany .
Order classes
The badge of honor exists in two classes as well as a commemorative medal for all other helpers:
- 1st class for very special merits in managing the organization of the games
- 2nd class for special merits in the executive organizational activity
- Commemorative medal for the Olympic Games for meritorious work who did not meet the requirements of 1st and 2nd class.
Appearance
The Olympic medal is a five-bar, white enameled, gold-rimmed star, which is interrupted by five golden, grooved rays. The center of the star bears the five Olympic rings. Above the upper beam, connected to it, hovers the insignia of the German Empire in white, gold-rimmed enamel. The design of the award comes from Professor Waldemar Raemisch .
With the ordinance of July 31, 1936 (RGBl. I 577), a commemorative medal for the 1936 Olympic Games, the Olympic Commemorative Medal , was donated in addition to the Olympic medal . In the obverse it shows the stone column of the Olympiastadion Berlin . Above it, the 5 Olympic rings and the year 1936 are embossed. In front of the column is the imperial eagle with outstretched wings, which holds a laurel wreath in its claws with an upside-down swastika . On the back it reads , in capital letters, FOR MERITABLE WORK AT THE 1936 OLYMPIC GAMES . There are oak leaves underneath. The dimensions of the medal are 3.6 cm (height), 3.2 cm (ribbon) (width), 3.6 cm (diameter).
Olympic medal of honor 1st (top) and 2nd class
Commemorative medal (obverse / lapel)
Denazified variant ("57 version")
Carrying method
The 1st class badge of honor was worn on a 5 cm wide, brick-red, black-rimmed ribbon on the neck with five white stripes (symbolize the five Olympic rings) in the middle . The 2nd class was of the same shape and design, but kept a little smaller and was worn as a ribbon medal on a 3 cm wide ribbon of the same design on the left side of the chest. After the day of the award only the strap buckle was worn. The same applies to the commemorative medal. In fact, no visual distinction between the 2nd class ribbon and the medal on the strap buckle of the wearer was immediately recognizable, as attached miniatures were not permitted. Only on closer inspection of the person opposite were the somewhat wider stripes of the 2nd class identifiable.
Award numbers
The Olympic medal has been awarded to both nationals and foreigners. The award to foreigners was owed to the fact that the Presidential Chancellery of the Ordenskanzlei was formally covered with subsequent applications for the award after the games were over. The following were awarded:
- 1st class: 767 times
- 2nd class: 3,364 times
- Commemorative medal: 54,915 times
Well-known 1st class porters
- Carl Diem
- Eduard Dietl
- Wolfgang Fürstner
- Joseph Goebbels
- Wolfgang von Gronau
- Reinhard Heydrich
- Werner March
- Georg Schulz
- Hans von Tschammer and Osten
Others
According to the law on titles, medals and decorations of July 26, 1957, the award may only be worn without the National Socialist emblem (imperial eagle with swastika).
literature
- Heinrich Doehle : The awards of the Greater German Reich. Orders, decorations, badges. 5th edition, licensed edition. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-931533-43-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1936 Olympic medal of honor, 2nd class on http://www.ehrenzeichen-orden.de . Retrieved September 6, 2013
- ^ The awards of the Greater German Reich. P. 38.