• Source: Orders, decorations, and medals of the German states

      • The orders, decorations, and medals of the German states, in which each states of Germany has devised a system of orders and awards to honour residents for actions or deeds that benefit their local community or state, are in turn subsumed within the German honours system. Each state sets their own rules and criteria on eligibility and also how each medal is awarded and presented. Most of the orders allow for the recipient to wear their orders in public.


      History


      Most of the orders have the form of a maltese cross.


      = Hanseatic rejection

      =
      The city states of Bremen and Hamburg do not allocate any orders. An exception was made during World War I when the Hanseatic Cross was awarded jointly with the city of Lübeck. Even today, senators of the two states reject any foreign orders. Former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt received a number of accolades, among them was the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, which he chose not to accept in Hanseatic tradition, in order to refuse any decoration presented for merely fulfilling one's duty.


      State orders




      State medals




      = Bavaria

      =
      Bavarian Constitution Medal (until 2011)
      Bavarian Lifesaving Medal


      = Berlin

      =
      Berlin Lifesaving Medal
      Louise-Schroeder-Medaille


      = Hamburg

      =
      Bürgermeister-Stolten-Medaille
      Biermann-Ratjen-Medaille


      = Hesse

      =
      Wilhelm-Leuschner-Medaille


      = Lower Saxony

      =
      Niedersächsische Landesmedaille


      = Rhineland-Palatinate

      =
      Verdienstmedaille des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz


      = Saxony

      =
      Saxon Constitutional Medal
      Johann-Georg-Palitzsch-Medaille


      See also


      Orders, decorations, and medals of Germany


      References

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