German National Prize for Art and Science

Through statutes of 30 January 1937,[1] the German Führer Adolf Hitler instituted the German National Order for Art and Science (German: Der Deutscher Nationalorden für Kunst und Wissenschaft)[1] as a replacement for the Nobel Prize (Hitler forbade Germans to accept the latter award after the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize retrospectively in November 1936 to an anti-Nazi German writer, Carl von Ossietzky.)

[2] The badge of the Order, a round four-pointed platinum star with four gold National Eagles attached, was designed by Berlin sculptor Hermann Müller-Erfurt.

On an ivory-coloured enameled background in gold letters was the inscription FÜR KUNST UND WISSENSCHAFT (For Art and Science).

Due to the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe in 1939, no further awards were made.

The first five winners were:[4] The award announcement was made on 6 September 1938, the presentation by Hitler took place 30 January 1939 in the Chancellery.