{{Use shortened footnotes|date=November 2023}} {{Infobox award |name=Blockade Runner Badge<br>Abzeichen für Blockadebrecher |image=Abzeichen für Blockadebrecher.jpg |image_size=200px |caption=Designed by Otto Placzeck |presenter=Nazi Germany |type=Badge |eligibility=Military and non-military personnel |awarded_for=service on warships or merchant vessels that attempted to break through the British sea blockade of Germany |campaign=World War II |status=Obsolete |description= |clasps= |established=1 April 1941 |firstawarded= |lastawarded= |total_awarded= |total_awarded_posthumously= |total_recipients= |individual= |higher= |same= |lower= |related= |image2= |caption2= }} The '''Blockade Runner Badge''' or the '''Badge for Blockade Runners''' ({{Langx|de|Abzeichen für Blockadebrecher}}) was a World War II German military decoration awarded for service on warships or merchant vessels that attempted to break through the British Blockade of Germany (1939–1945). It was instituted on 1 April 1941 upon the order of Adolf Hitler and first awarded on 1 July of the same year to Hugo Olendorff.{{sfn|Angolia|1987|p=134}}
==Design== The badge was designed by Otto Placzeck in Berlin. It was in either tombac or zinc and featured a ship with a large German eagle grasping a swastika on its bow. Around the circumference of the badge is a chain, through which the ship is cutting.{{sfn|Angolia|1987|p=134}} The eagle was silvered whilst the rest of the badge was a dark gray colour.
The badge was worn on the left breast pocket of the uniform. A smaller half-size version was awarded for use by civilians and members of the merchant marine.{{sfn|Angolia|1987|p=134}}
== Notes == {{reflist}}
== References == *{{cite book | last = Angolia | first = John | title = For Führer and Fatherland: Military Awards of the Third Reich | publisher = R. James Bender Publishing | year = 1987 | isbn = 0912138149 }}
{{List of military decorations of the Third Reich |state=collapsed}}
Category:Awards established in 1941 Category:Military awards and decorations of Nazi Germany Category:Blockades of World War II Category:1941 establishments in Germany