German Olympic Decoration

The Olympic Honour was founded by the decree of the Fuehrer and Chancellor Adolf Hitler on February 4, 1936 ( Reich Law Gazette I 51 ) as a special award for achievements in the realization of the Olympic Games in 1936 and transferred for services to the Germany summer and awarded Winter Games.

Order of classes

The decorations exists in two class and a commemorative medal for all other helpers:

Appearance

The Olympic Honour is an existing five beams, white enamelled, goldumrandeter star, which is interrupted by five golden geriften rays. The center of the star bears the five Olympic rings. Above the upper beam floats associated with it, the insignia of the German Reich in white goldumrandeter enamel. The design of the award comes from Professor Waldemar Raemisch.

With the decree of July 31, 1936 ( Reich Law Gazette I 577 ) was in addition to the Olympic Honour a commemorative medal for the 1936 Olympic Games, the Olympic commemorative medal, donated. It shows the stone pillar of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin in the Avers. In the five Olympic rings and the year 1936 are imprinted sublime. Before the column is center of the imperial eagle seen with outstretched wings, holding a laurel wreath in its claws, in which an upside swastika is. On the back is to read 1936 in uppercase FOR MERIT FULL COOPERATION AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES. Among these are oak leaves. The measurements of the coin at 3.6 cm (height), 3.2 cm (Volume ) ( width) 3.6 cm (diameter).

Carrying method

The Decoration of the first class was on a 5 cm wide brick-red, black-bordered, in the middle of five white strips ( symbolizing the five Olympic rings) traversed band worn around the neck. The second class, however, was held by the same shape and design, slightly smaller and was worn on a 3 cm wide band of the same design on the left side of the chest as a band Order. After the date of its award only as a band buckle. The same applies to the commemorative medal. No optical differentiation of the band of the second class and the medal to the ribbon buckle the carrier was factually thus immediately recognizable as patch Miniaten were not allowed. Only on closer inspection of the opponent, the slightly wider strips held the second class were identified.

Award numbers

The Olympic Honour has been awarded to both natives and foreigners. The award to foreign persons was due to the fact that the Presidential Chancellery of the Order office was covered formally after the games with post- award requests. There have been awarded:

Bearers of the first class

Others

Under the law on titles, orders and decorations from 26 July 1957, the award ( swastika ) may be worn only without Nazi emblems.

Knight's Cross Obverse and reverse Hans von Tschammer und Osten
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