burg had to endure similar experiences when it came to the award of military medals. although he had been recommended since 1838 by the commander of the united artillery and engineer school for the order of the red eagle (german: "") class iv, it took more than three years until the medal was finally awarded to him by king frederick william iv. the value of the medal can be explained with the fact that in the artillery brigade, which burg belonged to until his promotion to captain, had been – at the moment of the award of the medal to burg – under eighteen captains only one who had the medal and among the eight captains at his school, where he worked as an instructor, burg was the only one.< it appears that the prussian kings did not hesitate as much when it came to awarding civilian medals to jews. burg repeatedly received high civilian awards.