Updated: 07 December, 2001

Germany

• Official Bundesrepublick Deutschland Website - in German) (Ref: email from Holger Gruss)

• Wehrmacht Medals (Sebastian)

• Military Merit Medal with Bar for Kosovo - Awarded for service with the OSCE's Kosovo Verification Mission.

• The Typology of the Pour le Mèrite (Andreas Schulze Ising)  

• Iron Cross

  • The Historic Iron Cross, 1813-1957 (Andy Biggers)

  • The 1914 German Iron Cross (Trenches on the Web) (Ralph Reiley)

  • Iron Cross (A great reference site on this specialized subject)

  • The Knights Cross (U-Boat Net)

  • Iron Cross Knights Cross

  • Re Germany - Iron Cross

  • Image of Iron Cross

• German Medals Of World War 2

• German Silver-gilt Orders

• The Hanseatic Cross (Hanseatenkreuz) was awarded by the Hanseatic League town of Hamburg. The three free towns of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck instituted jointly crosses of merit for service in WWI. Recipients were serving or former members of the 75th Infantry Regiment (Bremen), the 76th Infantry Regiment (Hamburg), the 162nd Inf.Battallion (Lübeck), the crews of the warships Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck, inhabitants of the 3 cities serving in other units or in voluntary nursing units in the 3 towns. The crosses are similar in design except for the obverse coat of arms. The obverse is red enamelled, the reverse silvered and bearing the text "Für Verdienst / im / Kriege / 1914" (For war merit 1914). The obverse central medaillon has for Bremen, a silver key, for Hamburg, a triple-towered castle, for Lübeck, a black-double headed eagle on a gilt background. Each cross has its own ribbon. All crosses were instituted in 1915 : Lübeck on 21 August, Hamburg on 10 September (some 50,000 were awarded), and Bremen on 14 September (20,018 crosses awarded).(Ref: Hendrik)

• Medals of Germany (Mirko Plavsic)

• THW-Helferverein Ronnenberg - Bandschnallen

• THW - Bandschnallen Feuerwehr-Ehrenzeichen

• THW-Helferverein Ronnenberg - Bandschnallen

• THW - Bandschnallen DSB

• THW - Bandschnallen DRK-Blutspende

• THW - Bandschnallen Allgemeine Ehrenzeichen

• German Medals (Sydney B. Vernon)

• Germany - Pour le Merit (Image)

• German Youth Movement Medal (1883) 

• German Militaria & Collectibles 

• Orders and Decorations of Germany (in German)

• The Manx Lusitania Medals  The Manx Lusitania Medals (Part 2)

• BdOS - The German Orders & Medals Collectors Association The bilingual German and English BdOS has been a busy site already and now has an ads-page available for offers or wants. The webmaster will endeavour to bring a monthly feature article on an interesting German Order or Medal on his personal site.

• The Ostvolker Medal

• Balkans War: Air Campaign – German Pilots in medal dilemma (Sunday-Times – UK)  

• The Awarding of the Colonial Commemorative Medal to the German Imperial Navy

• Imperial German Orders, Medals and Decorations (Andreas Schulze Ising)

• Complete Listing of all Imperial Germany Orders and Medals (Andreas Schulze Ising)

• Medals of Germany (Including sections on Anhalt, Bavaria, Hanover, Hesse-Darmstadt, Lippe-Detmold, Oldenburg, Prussia, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxony, Schwarzburg, and Austro-German medal groups) (Will Shade)

• German Orders and Medals (Mirko Plavsic)

• The Last Model of the Crown-Order-Medal (Andreas Schulze Ising)  

• The Princely-Saxon House Order of Ernestine (Andreas Schulze Ising)  

• Star of Brabant (Hessen Darmstadt) (Andreas Schulze Ising)  

• The Award Documents for the Order of Albert (Kingdom of Saxony) (Andreas Schulze Ising)  

• The Order of Albert 1. Model: The Grand- or Commanders Cross with Swords (Andreas Schulze Ising)  

• Die Militar-Dienstauszeichungen des Konigreichs Saschsen (Ulf Klewers)

• Orders, Decorations, and Medals of Kurland (Antiques A to Z)

• German medals of WWI

• German Medals of WWI - oriented towards air services

• German Medals, 1933-45 (Erik Müller)

• German Military Awards and Decorations, 1939-45 (Sebastian Bianchi)

• German Medals of WWII (Gordon Williamson)

• Medals of the DDR (Auszeichnungen und Abzeichen der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik) (In German)

• Countess Elisabeth von der Schulenburg has died aged 97 (Federal Award of Merit Recipient)

• Germany & The German States - Antiques A to Z

• German Military (Regional and political history)

• Third Reich Factbook

• Ribbons of Germany    Ribbons of Germany 2    Ribbons of Germany 3 (Antonio Prieto)

• German medal ribbons [among others] ("gman755")

• German Ribbons (Frank Arlt)

• Ribbons of Wurttemberg (Jean-Paul LeBlanc)