Philipp Reis plaque

This article describes the award given by the Federal Post Minister since 1952 and later by the Minister of Economics. For the award of the cities, VDE and Telekom see Johann-Philipp-Reis-Preis .

Illustrations of the two plaques in the supplement to the official gazette number 1334/1952

The Philipp Reis badge (originally: "Philipp Reis badge of the Deutsche Bundespost" ) was donated by the Federal Post Minister Hans Schuberth on October 26, 1952, together with the Heinrich von Stephan badge of the Deutsche Bundespost .

occasion

In order to publicly express the thanks and recognition of the Deutsche Bundespost to personalities who have made outstanding contributions in the field of telecommunications, the Federal Post Minister Hans Schuberth donated the Philipp Reis plaque.

The award date is chosen because on October 26, 1861, Philipp Reis gave the first public experimental lecture on the telephone he invented at the Physikalischer Verein zu Frankfurt am Main , and because in 1877, also on October 26, Heinrich von Stephan gave the telephone to the state news medium has determined.

After the dissolution of the Federal Post Office in 1998, the Federal Minister of Economics presented the award to distinguished personalities from science, business and in the field of telecommunications services.

Badge and certificate

The plaque is 52 × 52 millimeters in size and shows the picture of Philipp Reis on the front and the circumferential writing "Philipp Reis 1834–1874" "on the edge. The reverse shows the picture of the Archangel Gabriel with messenger staff and tape and on the edge the circumferential Font “For outstanding merits . ” The design for the plaque comes from Gottfried Kappen from Kirchhellen .

The winners received an award certificate signed by the Federal Post Minister and were announced in the Official Gazette of the Federal Post Office. The badge becomes the property of the award winner.

Award winners

1. 1952: Martin Hebel
2. 1953: Karl Küpfmüller
3. 1954: Karl Dohmen
4. 1955: Hans Rukop
5. 1956: Bruno Pohlmann

   1957: no award

6. 1958: Hans Raettig
7. 1959: Hermann Düll

   1960: no award

8. 1961: Johannes DH van der Toorn (Netherlands) and Hans Ferdinand Mayer
9. 1962: Hans Georg Möller
10. 1963: Leo Pungs
11. 1964: Hans Busch
12. 1965: Karl Herz
13. 1966: Richard Feldtkeller (TH Stuttgart)
14. 1967: Gustav Adolf Wettstein (Switzerland)
15. 1968: Arthur Mehlis
16. 1969: Friedrich Gladenbeck
17. 1970: Günter Wuckel
18. 1971: Helmut Bornemann
19. 1972: Franz Etzel (Siemens & Halske)
20. 1973: Thomas Ellsworth Nelson (US State Department)
21. 1974: Josef Lennertz
22. 1975: Adolf Heilmann (TH Darmstadt and head of the radio department at FTZ )
23. 1976: Fritz Locker (Switzerland) or Fritz Locher

    1977:?

24. 1978: Mohamed Mili

    1979:?

25. 1980: Alfred Lotze , Director of the Institute for Communication and Data Processing at the University of Stuttgart.

    1981:?

26. 1982: Hans Pausch

    1983:?

    1984:?

    1985:?

    1986:?

    1987–1992: no award

27. 1993: Thomas Haug (Swedish Telekom)

    1994:?

    1995:?

    1996:?

    1997:?

    1998:?

    1999:?

    2000:?

28. 2001: Peter Mihatsch

literature

• Manual dictionary of the postal system ; Published by the Federal Ministry for Post and Telecommunications:
  • 2nd completely revised edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1953; Pp. 70 and 485
  • 3rd edition, '1. Volume A - F ', Berlin, July 1971; P. 559 ("Honors and Awards" - V. Awards of the Deutsche Bundespost)
• Journal for the Post and Telecommunications (ZPF) with the support of the Federal Minister for the Post and Telecommunications and published by Josef Keller Verlag
• Hans Hübner: Excellent! Recognition for special services and loyalty to Reichspost, Bundespost and German Post ; in: The archive issue 2/2013; Pp. 70-76

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official Journal of the Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications, year 1952, Edition A, Frankfurt (Main), October 26, 1952, No. 98, p. 491
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} ZPF -Nr. 1/1965, p. 2
3. ↑ ZPF issue no. 23/1953; P. 877
4. ↑ ZPF issue no. 24/1954; P. 1014
5. ↑ ZPF issue no. 24/1955; P. 1082
6. ↑ ZPF issue no. 7/1959; P. 225
7. ↑ ^{a b} ZPF issue no. 22/1961; P. 849
8. ↑ ZPF issue no. 23/1963; P. 907
9. ↑ ZPF issue no. 1/1965; P. 1
10. ↑ ZPF issue no. 2/1966; P. 41
11. ↑ ZPF issue no. 2/1967; P. 41
12. ↑ ZPF issue no. 3/1968; P. 89
13. ↑ ZPF issue no. 3/1970; P. 81
14. ↑ ZPF issue no. 5/1971; P. 147
15. ↑ ZPF issue no. 4/1972; P. 105
16. ↑ ZPF issue no. 3/1973; P. 81
17. ↑ ZPF issue no. 2/1974; P. 41
18. ↑ ZPF issue no. 2/1975; P. 12
19. ↑ ZPF issue no. 1/1976; P. 10
20. ↑ Sarah Brian Scherer: Fritz Locher. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 24, 2008 , accessed July 7, 2019 . (Incorrectly stated there as 1975.)
21. ↑ Germany-Rundspruch des DARC No. 39/78 of October 27, 1978 ( Memento of the original of July 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with reference to the official gazette of the Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunication of October 17, 1978. 
22. ↑ Announcement ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Computerwoche on January 9, 1981 
23. ^ Rudolf Grabau: The F flag; Table of contents for the years 1988 to 1997; Much 2003; PDF file 153 kB
24. ↑ Federal Economics Minister Müller is distinguished pioneers of competition in postal and telecommunications from the press release of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor of 7 November 2001