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The ''Gesetz über Titel, Orden und Ehrenzeichen'' ("Law of Titles, Orders and Honours"), often shortened to ''Ordensgesetz'' ("Orders Law"), is a federal law of Germany detailing the treatment and handling procedures for civilian and military decorations. The law was put into effect on July 26, 1957, and fulfilled two primary purposes. First, it stipulated how medals and military decorations from before 1945 should be handled (including those from the days of the Weimar Republic, which had been influenced by laws in 1933 and 1937 under the government of Nazi Germany). Second, it was intended to describe treatment and procedures for medals in the (then newly created) Federal Republic of Germany. ==Basic Conventions== In general the German law elucidates the following conventions: * Both Federal as well as States can confer Titles, Orders and Honours (hereafter shortened always to: Orders). * The Federal President can personally establish Orders or quasi-officially recognize existing Honours (e.g. in the area of Sports). * Legally convicted criminals will, by rule, have Orders and Honours revoked. * Germans' may accept foreign Orders only after explicit approval by the Federal President. * Awards may only be borne personally by the honoured person; the decorations remain however, by rule, in the property of the heirs upon death. * The unauthorized bearing of domestic and foreign Orders and Honours as well as the bearing of Awards with National Socialistic emblems can as a regulatory offence be punished with a monetary penalty. The original law also committed the German federal government to pay out the ''Ehrensold'' (literally "honorary soldier's pay", a type of pension or honorarium) included in certain awards from World War I and before. On February 19, 2006 this portion of the law was nullified. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ordensgesetz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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