October 03, 2009
Indicator of Pharmacy Germany
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Indicator of Pharmacy
For centuries, has been on visual representations of the pharmacists indicated by the hand of balance. The need for a single pharmacy logo but only came in the 20th Century. First, it was often used the white cross on a red background, which was not legally problematic because of the similarity with the Swiss national emblem, the symbol was also no more clear as the sometimes used mortars, as well as the drugstores used both symbols.
To emphasize the difference was a clear, nationwide standard logo needed. 1929/30 triumphed in a competition the company Verunda the symbol of the Bauhaus school inspired “three-bucket-bottle”. After five years, it was nevertheless used by around one third of all pharmacies, but it remained controversial because of his “shocking modern” style. A renewed Competition 1936 was won by a red, but the white cross was originally foreseen in the draft was rejected because of its similarity to the Swiss cross and replaced by “modern” life rune. The new pharmacy-A has been introduced across the 1937th Quickly this character had reached a very high degree of popularity after the war, however, the use of the runic symbols are no longer accepted, so that in turn was a reworking of the famous mark necessary. Since 1951, in West Germany using the design of Rupert Mathieu with Äskulapschlange and medicine cup. The Pharmacy-A – Character statutes under a red “A large Gothic on a white background with marked drug design in white cup with a snake” – is registered at the German Patent Office as an official symbol of the German Association of Pharmacists (DAV) and not only in the specified manner and under strict compliance with the Statute of characters are used. The only remaining alleged three-spoon symbol is shown at the German Pharmacy Museum in Heidelberg Castle .
The Pharmacy-A is normally only available in Germany, less common is the international symbol, the Green Cross. In places with international public transport, it is sometimes used in addition to a pharmacy.
