Lubeck Hanseatic Cross

[IrishGunner]

I have been looking at the Hanseatic Cross series (Hamburg, Bremen, Lubeck) and have found on the internet (including some scans here on GMIC) that the ribbon for the Lubeck cross appears two ways.

1) Red on the left / white on the right

2) White on the left / red on the right

Anyone have an idea as to the regulation?

[Guest Rick Research]

Von Hessenthal and Schreiber just say half red/half white. I don't think I've ever seen anything that specified which side went where. That got more confusing with the German style of overlapping ribbons, so if red was on the left of a U shaped drape-- it ended up on the right on the other side.

Or vice versa.

Or...

[IrishGunner]

Thanks, Rick.

I guess an informal internet research project is in order just for curiosity's sake of seeing which order might be in the majority.

[Bernhard H.Holst]

According to Nimmergut's "Baenderkatalog" (ribbon catalog) of 1992 the Hanseatenkreuz for Luebeck the ribbon should show white-red from the viewer's point. Or in wear starting with white. As stated before the colours do get shown in the two possible combinations.

Bernhard H. Holst