Forget Me Not Jewellery is dedicated to supplying masonic jewellery - we will be continually expanding our range of quality freemasonry jewellery.

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The Forget Me Not

In early 1934, soon after Hitler's rise to power, it became evident that Freemasonry was in danger. In that same year, the "Grand Lodge of the Sun" (one of the pre-war German Grand Lodges, located in Bayreuth) realizing the grave dangers involved, adopted the little blue Forget-Me-Not flower as a substitute for the traditional square and compasses, to identify them as Masons. This was to allay attraction by the Nazis in the process of their confiscation and appropriation of Masonic Lodges and property. Masonry at this time was underground and thus the Brethren had need of a readily recognised identification.

This little blue flower worn in the lapel distinguished those refusing to allow the Light of Masonry to be extinguished and during the Nazi era marked a Brother whether he was in the concentration camps or in the cities.

The Grand Lodge of the Sun was re-opened in Bayreuth in 1947 by Past Grand Master Beyer and a pin shaped as a Forget Me Not was adopted as the official emblem of the first annual convention of the survivors of the bitter years of semi-darkness which brought the Light of Masonry again into the Temples.

In 1948 this pin was adopted as an official Masonic emblem at the first Annual Convent of the United Grand Lodges of Germany, AF & AM. This as an honour to those valiant Brethren who worked under adverse and extreme conditions. Dr. Theodor Vogel, Grand Master of the newly-formed VCLvD, AF & AM, at the Grand Masters Conference in the United States, presented a Forget-Me-Not pin to each of the representatives of the Grand Jurisdictions which enjoyed Fraternal relations with the VCLvD, AF & AM.

This simple flower blossmed forth to become the Fraternity's meaningful emblem and perhaps the most widely worn pin by Freemans in Germany. The Forget-Me-Not is presented to new Master Masons in most Lodges and its history briefly explained.