Lifesaving Medal (Prussia)
The Lifesaving Medal at the band was on 16 August 1833 by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. donated by Prussia. She could be awarded to individuals who had saved on his own life-threatening another person. In the Free State of Prussia a successor model was founded on June 9, 1925 by the Interior Ministry, which was awarded to 1936. There was (not portable) from a Lifesaving Medal (portable ) and a commemorative medal for rescue from danger. The foundation of a rescue medal of the German Empire had failed in the Weimar Republic. In the Third Reich a Lifesaving Medal with Ribbon (portable) and a commemorative medal for rescue from danger was on 22 June 1933 the Prussian model of Reich President (not portable) donated.
Appearance
The award is a round, made of silver medal and is the effigy of the founder. The back of the four-line inscription FOR RESCUE FROM DANGER to read, which is surrounded by a wreath of oak leaves. The model in the Free State of Prussia on the obverse is the sovereignty of the Republic of Prussia eagle with broad wings and the inscription REPUBLIC OF PRUSSIA top edge and bottom edge. In the Third Reich the front of the medal bears no signature. On it the imperial eagle can be seen with the swastika on the chest. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the Lifesaving Medal may under the law on titles, medals and decorations ( religious law ) of 26 July 1957 to be worn on the band of the Third Reich without the swastika. This version is often misinterpreted as a saving medal of the Weimar Republic, which has never existed.
Carrying method
Was driven medal at an orange ribbon with white side stripes on the left chest.
Bearers
An early bearer was Prince Frederick Charles Nicholas of Prussia, who received the medal in 1847 for the rescue of a child from the Rhine near Bonn awarded. Bearers were Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke, Siegfried Thomaschki, Otto von Bismarck and the fighter pilot Oswald Boelcke, who rescued a French boy from a channel. Hans Pfundtner she received in 1899 as a student in the first semester at the Albertus University of Königsberg. Victor Caillé she received three times.