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WHM 23

  • WHM 23
  • Modern
  • Medal
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Germany
  • 2-12-1918 AD
  • Iron
  • Cast
  • Circular
  • 58 mm
  • 68.05g
  • 12h
  • Kienast 203
  • Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut). CNG, 290, 482.
  • 2012-11-07
  • Medal designed by Karl Goet. On 8 January 1918, Woodrow Wilson delivered a speech to Congress in which he outlined his Fourteen Points, a post-war plan for peace in Europe. Allies widely distributed copies of the speech behind German lines in an effort to encourage Germany to surrender with the expectation that fair terms would be reached. The terms of surrender ultimately reached, however, called for crushing penalties that shocked Germans and inspired Goetz to create this satirical medal.

WILSON’S BOTSCHAFT (from right, downward),

half-length figure of Woodrow Wilson reaching over globe, pointing to tablet inscribed with 8 JAN 1918 and fourteen points

WELTFRIEDENS PROGRAMM (from right, downward),

K · G (under the tablet)

eagle with wings spread, grasping in claws tablet inscribed with 12 FEBR 1918 and four additional points; scales behind, five orbs of fire raining from above


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