Waterloo Medal (Braunschweig)
After the Hanoverian Waterloo Medal had already been donated in 1817, the Braunschweig Waterloo Medal was given to the underage Duke Carl II of Braunschweig on June 11, 1818 by Prince Regent George IV of Great Britain in the custody of the underage Duke Carl II of Braunschweig in memory of the summer campaign of 1815 and in particular donated for the participation of the Brunswick in the battles at Quatre-Bras on June 16 and Waterloo on June 18, 1815. The medal was also intended to commemorate the Brunswick sovereign, Duke Friedrich Wilhelm , who fell in 1815 .
History and description
George IV of Great Britain commissioned the Brunswick mint director Friedrich Ritter to have the piece, also known as the "Waterloo Honorary Ducat", manufactured in the Brunswick mint. The medal made Johann Carl Haeseler both in silver and in bronze. Some medals were made from the bronze of captured gun barrels.
The front of the medal shows the bust of Friedrich Wilhelm, turned to the left, with a field cap in a uniform jacket with a medal. The signature C. Häsler can be found on the arm section . The inscription is Friedrich Wilhelm Herzog . On the reverse, the year 1815 can be seen in the middle, surrounded by a laurel branch on the left and an oak branch on the right. Therefore in the semicircle the lettering Braunschweig his warriors above and Quatrebras and Waterloo below.
The badge should be worn either on the third buttonhole or on a yellow ribbon with light blue stripes on the left side of the chest. The award could also be given to fallen or deceased soldiers to their bereaved. The output then took place without a tape. In each case, however, the soldier's first and last name, his military rank as well as his unit of service were engraved on the edge for each individual recipient.
A total of 5,607 awards can be verified.
The costs for the production of the Braunschweig Waterloo medals were subsequently put at 1468 thalers , 9 good groschen and 3 pfennigs .
Literature (selection)
- Roger Reckewell, Jens Fischer: Order, badge of honor and badge of the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg from 1809 to 1918. Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, Braunschweig 1987 ( work reports , publications from the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig 54), ISSN 0934-6147 .
Web links
- Orders and decorations information: Waterloo Medal
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Wolfgang Leschhorn: Brunswick coins and medals. 1000 years of coin art and monetary history in the city and country of Braunschweig (= Braunschweigisches Kunsthandwerk (BKH), Vol. 3), Braunschweig: Appelhans, 2010, ISBN 978-3-941737-22-8 , p. 78; Reading sample on the appelhans-verlag.de page
- ↑ Gustav Adolph Ackermann: Waterloo-Ehrenducaten , in ders .: Order book of all orders and decorations that have flourished and expired in Europe. Rudolph & Dieterici, Annaberg 1855, pp. 74-75; Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library