Life saving medal
The life-saving medal (also known as life-saving medal , rescue medal ) is awarded to people who have rescued another person from mortal danger and who have shown a particular degree of courage and willingness to make sacrifices (e.g. despite endangering their own life).
For the first time, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. 1802 a commemorative medal for saving lives. In Germany these medals are mostly awarded today by the interior ministers of the individual federal states.
Germany
- Merit Medal for Rescue from Danger (Hanover)
- Medal for Rescue from Mortal Danger (Nassau)
- Rescue medal on ribbon (Prussia)
- Rescue Medal (Bavaria)
- Rescue Medal (Saxony)
- Rescue Medal (Baden-Württemberg)
- Rescue Medal (Berlin)
- Bavarian rescue medal
- Brandenburg rescue medal
- Bremen Rescue Medal
- Hamburg Rescue Medal
- Hessian rescue medal
- Lower Saxony Rescue Medal
- Saarland Rescue Medal
- Rescue Medal (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
- Rescue Medal (North Rhine-Westphalia)
- Rescue Medal (Rhineland-Palatinate)
- Rescue medal of the state of Saxony-Anhalt
- Rescue Medal (Schleswig-Holstein)
- General Decoration of Honor (Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt)
- Medal for rescue from danger to life (Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
- Medal of Merit for Rescue from Danger (Grand Duchy of Oldenburg)
- Lifesaving Medal (Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach)
- Lifesaving Medal (Saxony-Altenburg)
- Merit mark of honor for rescue from danger (Anhalt)
- Rescue Medal (Braunschweig)
- Rescue medal (Principality of Lippe)
- Rescue Medal of the Free City of Gdansk
- Free State of Lippe Rescue Medal
- Rescue medal on ribbon (Free State of Anhalt)
- Life saving medal of the GDR
- Saxon life-saving honor
- Medal for rescue from distress of the DGzRS
Austria
- Gold medal on the red ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria (lifesaving medal)
- Silver medal on a red ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria (lifesaving medal, has not been awarded since 1968)