Price: 5.00 euro
Size: 3cm./1.1inch.
Weight: 17gr./0.59oz.

Medal made in the DDR for Faithful Service in Health and Social Services. The medal came in 3 variations, bronze, silver and gold. For 10, 20 or 30 years of service.

Price: 5,00 euro
Size box: 8x6cm./3.1×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 44gr./1.5oz.

This medal was issued in 1969 for faithful service as a reserve in the nation people’s army. The front of the medal says:”Reservist of the national people army”, the back of the medal says:”For protection of workers and farmers”.
The medal came in three different types.
Bronze: for serving 18-24 months
Silver: for serving 2 to 10 years
Gold: for serving more than 10 years

Price: 30.00 euro
Size box: 12x6cm./4.7×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 70gr./2.4oz.

Medal made in the DDR. Medal of Merit of the Border Troops of the DDR the gold one. The text on the medal reads:”For excellent service border troops” and the back of the medal reads:”For the protection of workers and farmers”.
The medal was awarded in 3 classes for outstanding achievements and personal dedication in maintaining the security of the borders of the GDR. In bronze, silver and gold. Also for political and military leadership as well as for education and training.

Price: 2.50 euro
Size box: 7x5cm./2.7×1.9inch.
Size medal: 2.5cm./0.9inch.
Weight: 26gr./0.9oz.

Medal made in the DDR. The image on the medal is Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803). The back of the medal reads:”Society For German Soviet Friendship”.
Johann Gottfried Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. The medal was awarded to Russian teachers for outstanding achievements in the subject of Russian. It was also awarded to high school graduates, students and apprentices for excellence in Russian. The medal came in 3 levels: bronze, silver and gold.

Price: 2.50 euro
Size box: 7x5cm./2.7×1.9inch.
Size medal: 2.5cm./0.9inch.
Weight: 26gr./0.9oz.

Medal made in the DDR. The image on the medal is Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803). The back of the medal reads:”Society For German Soviet Friendship”.
Johann Gottfried Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. The medal was awarded to Russian teachers for outstanding achievements in the subject of Russian. It was also awarded to high school graduates, students and apprentices for excellence in Russian. The medal came in 3 levels: bronze, silver and gold.

Price: 2.50 euro
Size box: 7x5cm./2.7×1.9inch.
Size medal: 2.5cm./0.9inch.
Weight: 26gr./0.9oz.

Medal made in the DDR. The image on the medal is Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803). The back of the medal reads:”Society For German Soviet Friendship”.
Johann Gottfried Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. The medal was awarded to Russian teachers for outstanding achievements in the subject of Russian. It was also awarded to high school graduates, students and apprentices for excellence in Russian. The medal came in 3 levels: bronze, silver, gold.

Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 11x7cm./4.3×2.7inch.
Size medal: 3.2cm./1.2inch.
Weight: 89gr./3.1oz.

Medal made in the DDR. The text on the back of the medal reads:”Medal Of Merit Of The German Democratic Republic”.

Price: 20.00 euro
Size box: 18x16cm./7×6.2inch.
Size plaque: 11.5x9cm./4.5×3.5inch.
Weight: 270gr./9.5oz.

Table medal made in the DDR. The text on the plaque reads:”Our cities and communities are more beautiful. Take part”. The text in the box reads:”For excellence in competition”.

Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 13cm./5.1inch.
Size medal: 9cm./3.5inch.
Weight: 236gr./8.3oz.

Table medal made in the DDR. The text in the box reads:”Party High School Karl Marx”. the figure on the medal is Ernst Thalmann. Who was leader of the Communist Party in Germany from 1925 until 1933.
The Party Academy Karl Marx (Parteihochschule Karl Marx) was an academy (Hochschule) that was founded in 1946 in the Soviet occupation zone. Teaching ceased on 30 June 1990.
During its existence, the academy offered studies and classes to more than 25,000 students. Among them were more than 1,200 students from socialist countries that had friendly ties with the DDR. Studies offered were Marxist-Leninist throughout. Numerous publications, both scientific and propagandist, were released. Members of the Socialist Unity Party and its organizations were delegated to studies of either one or three years duration, finishing as Diplom-Gesellschaftswissenschaftler (equivalent to a Bachelor in Social Sciences).

Price: 15.00 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 5cm./1.9inch.
Weight: 96gr./3.3oz.
Year: 1977

Table medal made in the DDR. Made for celebrating 60 yeats of October revolution, made in 1977. On teh front of the medal there is Lenin and the text:”Competition in honor of 60 years of Red October” and the back of the medal reads:”Joint action by the district board DSF and the district board FDGB”. The DSF was a German and Soviet friendship organisation and the FDGB was the sole union organisation of the DDR.

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Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 33gr./1.1oz.

Medal made in the DDR. Made for the 60th, anniversary of the October Revolution wich took place in 1917. The back of the mdeal reads:”60th, anniversary of the great October Revolution”. On teh medal is the winterpalace in St. Petersburg, the location were the October Revolution started.

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Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 33gr./1.1oz.

Medal made in the DDR. Made for the 60th, anniversary of the October Revolution wich took place in 1917. The back of the mdeal reads:”60th, anniversary of the great October Revolution”.
The Aurora was made in 1903 and most of the crew joined the Bolshevics who were preparing a communist revolution led by Lenin in 1917. This ship fired the first shot signalling the start of the October revolution. In WWII the guns was taken off the ship to use it for the defence of Leningrad. After the war the Aurora was a navy training vessel and later, till this day, a museum located at St. Petersburg (formaly known as Leningrad).

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Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 33gr./1.1oz.

Medal made in the DDR. Made for the 60th, anniversary of the October Revolution wich took place in 1917. The back of the mdeal reads:”60th, anniversary of the great October Revolution”.
The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government.
As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.

Price: 5.00 euro
Size box: 9×5.5cm./3.5×2.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 61gr./2.1oz.

Medal made in the DDR for service in the German post company. the text on the medal reads:”For excellent service at the German post”.
This medal came in 3 classes, 10 years (bronze), 20 years (silver and 30 years (gold).

Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 6.5cm./2.5inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 39gr./1.3oz.

Table medal made in the DDR with the image of Wilhlem Pieck. The back of the medal reads:”German Democratic Republic”.
Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck (1876-1960) was a German communist politician. In 1949, he became the first, and only President of the German Democratic Republic, and the office was abolished upon his death. His successor as head of state was the collective Council of State, whose chairman, and thus most prominent member, was SED First Secretary Walter Ulbricht.
In 1919 Pieck, along with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht was arrested in Berlin for their political activities. Liebknecht and Luxemburg were then killed while “being taken to prison” . While the two were being murdered, Pieck managed to escape.

Price: 25.00 euro
Size box: 12x6cm./4.7×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 70gr./2.4oz.

Medal made in the DDR. Medal of Merit of the Border Troops of the DDR the bronze one. The text on the medal reads:”For excellent service border troops” and the back of the medal reads:”For the protection of workers and farmers”.
The medal was awarded in 3 classes for outstanding achievements and personal dedication in maintaining the security of the borders of the GDR. In bronze, silver and gold. Also for political and military leadership as well as for education and training.

Price: 8.00 euro
Size box: 12x6cm./4.7×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 70gr./2.4oz.

Medal made in the DDR. Medal for faithful service in militarised organs of the Interior Ministry. The text on the medal reads:”For 5 Years Of Loyal Service”. This medal came in 6 versions. For 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of service.

Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 12x6cm./4.7×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 70gr./2.4oz.

Medal made in the DDR. Medal for faithful service in militarised organs of the Interior Ministry. The text on the medal reads:”For 15 Years Of Loyal Service”. This medal came in 6 versions. For 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of service.

Price: 15.00 euro
Size box: 12.5x6cm./4.9×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 70gr./2.4oz.

Medal made in the DDR. Medal for Excellence in the Armed Organs of the Interior Ministry. The medal was awarded in a single class for excellent performance of tasks, in particular in the strengthening and consolidation of the DDR. The order was established in 1959.

Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 12.5x6cm./4.9×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 70gr./2.4oz.

Gold medal of the DDR for excellent service by the Ministry Of Interiour.The front of the medal says:”For excellent service” The back of the medal has got the Coat of Arms of the DDR surrounded with laurel. This medal came in 3 types; bronze, silver and gold.

Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 12.5x6cm./4.9×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 70gr./2.4oz.

Silver medal of the DDR for excellent service by the Ministry Of Interiour.The front of the medal says:”For excellent service” The back of the medal has got the Coat of Arms of the DDR surrounded with laurel. This medal came in 3 types; bronze, silver and gold.

Price: 17.50 euro
Size box: 12x6cm./4.7×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 70gr./2.4oz.

Medal made in the DDR. Medal for faithful service in militarised organs of the Interior Ministry. The text on the medal reads:”For 30 Years Of Loyal Service”. This medal came in 6 versions. For 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of service.

Price: 15.00 euro
Size box: 12x6cm./4.7×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 70gr./2.4oz.

Medal made in the DDR. Medal for faithful service in militarised organs of the Interior Ministry. The text on the medal reads:”For 25 Years Of Loyal Service”. This medal came in 6 versions. For 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of service.

Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 12x6cm./4.7×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 70gr./2.4oz.

Medal made in the DDR. Medal for faithful service in militarised organs of the Interior Ministry. The text on the medal reads:”For 20 Years Of Loyal Service”. This medal came in 6 versions. For 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of service.

Price: 3.50 euro
Size box: 8×6.5cm./3.1×2.5inch.
Size medal: 4.5×3.5cm./1.7×1.3inch.
Weight: 20gr./0.7oz.

Medal made in the DDR. On the back the medal reads:”To live in a socialist way requires to work in a socialist way”.

Price: 3.50 euro
Size box: 8×6.5cm./3.1×2.5inch.
Size medal: 5x3cm./1,9×1,1inch.
Weight: 40gr./1.4oz.

East German Free Trade Union Young Activist Medal.Still in it’s original box.

Price: 20.00 euro
Size box: 16x10cm./6.2×3.9inch.
Size medals: 3cm./1.1inch.
Size plaque: 7×1.5cm./2.7×0.5inch.
Weight: 155gr./5.4oz.

Table medal from the DDR. The text on the plaque says:”Honorary gift from the secretariat district management SED Karl Marx Stadt”. The SED was the ruling communist party of East Germany.
On the first medal there is Fritz Heckert. Friedrich (Fritz) Carl Heckert (1884-1936) was a German politician, co-founder of the Spartacus League and the Communist Party of Germany and a leading member of the Communist International (Comintern). He also briefly served as the Saxon Minister of Economy in 1923. The text on the back of the medal reads:”Revolutionary Leader Of The Proletarians District Karl Marx City”.
On the second medal there is Ernst Schneller. Ernst Schneller (1890-1944) was a German school teacher. In 1914 he volunteered to join the army when war broke out. Sent to fight on the Eastern Front, he became politicised and radicalised, especially as the ideas behind the Russian Revolution filtered through to the German troops. After the war he joined first the Social Democratic Party and then, in 1920, the recently launched Communist Party of Germany. He was arrested in 1933 and imprisoned. Transfer to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp followed in 1939. On 11 October 1944 Ernst Schneller was one of 24 German camp inmates deemed culpable of “illegal activities”, taken out, and together with three French antifascists shot dead by the SS. The back of the medal reads:”Revolutionary Leader Of The Proletarians District Karl Marx City”.
On the third medal there is Clara Zetkin. Clara Zetkin was a German womans rights activist in the socialist and communist womans rights movement (1857-1933). She was and is still honoured by the Clara Zetkin park in Leipzich, the Clara Zetkin museum in Birkenwerder and the Clara Zetkin clothing factory in Moscow. The back of the medal reads:”Revolutionary Leader Of The Proletarians District Karl Marx City”.

Price: 15.00 euro
Size box: 9cm./3.5inch.
Weight: 129gr./4.5oz.

Table medal from the DDR. The front of the medal reads:”For The Protection Of The Worker And The Farmer”, and the back reads:”Party Led Working Class Loyal To The Soviet Union, Allied Forever”.

Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 10cm./3.9inch.
Weight: 132gr./4.6oz.

Table medal from the DDR made in 1982. The front of the medal reads:”100 Years Robotron, Reiss” and on the back:”VEB Robotron Electronics And Drawimg Devices”.
VEB Kombinat Robotron (or simply Robotron) was the biggest East German electronics manufacturer. It was based in Dresden and employed 68,000 people (1989). It produced personal computers, as well as home computers, radios and television sets. The company was active from 1969 to 1990 during the period when Dresden was in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It had the legal forms, Volkseigener Betrieb (VEB) and Kombinat, specific to the GDR. It was under the direct control of the then East German government.

Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 12cm./4.7inch.
Weight: 197gr./6.9oz.

Table medal from the DDR made in 1974. The text on the medal reads:”25 Years German Democratic Republic”. And the back of the medal says:”Presented By The Council Of Eisenach”. Eisenach is a town in Germany.

Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 9cm./3.5inch.
Weight: 166gr./5.8oz.

Medal from the DDR. On the front of the medal there is the image of the enormous monument in Treptower park in Berlin. Its prominent feature is the Soviet War Memorial built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It was opened four years after the war ended, on May 8, 1949. The front of the medal says:”Soviet Memorial Berlin Treptow”. The back of the medal says:”Berlin, Capital Of The DDR”.

Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 9cm./3.5inch.
Weight: 133gr./4.6oz.

Table medal made in the DDR. The medal was made in celebration of teh anniversary of 75 years of a steel factory.

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Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 10×9.5cm./3.9×3.7inch.
Weight: 99gr./3.4oz.

Medal DDR in it’s original box. The front of the medal reads:”Performance Recognition Of The Reservists NVA” and on the back:”For The Protection Of Workers And Farmers”.
The National People’s Army (NVA) was the armed forces of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1956 to 1990.
The NVA was formed in 1956 to succeed the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (Barracked People’s Police) and influenced by the Soviet Army, becoming one of the Warsaw Pact militaries opposing NATO during the Cold War. The majority of NATO officers rated the NVA the best military in the Warsaw Pact based on discipline, thoroughness of training, and the quality of officer leadership.
The NVA did not see significant combat but participated in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, deployed military advisors to communist governments in other countries, and manned the Berlin Wall where they were responsible for numerous deaths. The NVA was dissolved in 1990 and its facilities and equipment were handed over to the Bundeswehr (the armed forces of West Germany), which also absorbed most of its personnel below the rank of non-commissioned officer.

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Price: 6.00 euro
Size: 6x6cm./2.5×2.5inch.
Weight: 45gr./1.5oz.

Table medal for celebrating the 30th. year of the SED, the ruling party of the DDR. Made in 1976. The front of the medal reads:”Socialist Union Party” and the back reads:”The Party Is For The People”.
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany was the governing Marxist–Leninist political party of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the country’s foundation in October 1949 until its dissolution after the Peaceful Revolution in 1989. The party was established in April 1946.
The GDR was a one-party state but other institutional popular front parties were permitted to exist in alliance with the SED, these parties being the Christian Democratic Union, the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Farmers’ Party, and the National Democratic Party. The SED made the teaching of Marxism-Leninism and the Russian language compulsory in schools. In the 1980s, the SED rejected the liberalisation policies of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, such as perestroika and glasnost, which would lead to the GDR’s isolation from the restructuring USSR and the party’s downfall in the autumn of 1989.

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Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 13×9.5cm./5.1×3.7inch.
Weight: 156gr./5.5oz.

Table medal from the DDR of the National People’s Army. The text on the medal holder reads:”National People’s Army. City Command Capital DDR Berlin”. The front of the medal reads:”Berlin. Capital Of The DDR”. The back of the medal reads:”For The Protection Of The Workers And Farmers”.

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Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 13×9.5cm./5.1×3.7inch.
Weight: 114gr./4oz.

Table medal from the DDR of the National People’s Army. The text on the medal holder reads:”National People’s Army. City Command Capital DDR Berlin”. The front of the medal reads:”Berlin. Capital Of The DDR”. The back of the medal reads:”For The Protection Of The Workers And Farmers”.

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Price: 25.00 euro
Size: 18×12.5cm./7×4.9inch.
Weight: 346gr./12.2oz.

Table medals in original box. 6 medals showing various government organizations such as the fire department, customs, railway police, traffic police, coast guard, and the border patrol. On the back of each medal it reads:”For The Protection Of Workers And Farmers”.

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Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 9×8.5cm./3.5×3.3inch.
Weight: 91gr./3.2oz.

Medal from the DDR. In it’s original box and with inlay. Made in 1982. The thext on the medal reads:”30 Years Of Political Bodies In The Railway Industry” and on the back:”For Excellent Party Work In The Railway Industry”.

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Price: 25.00 euro
Size: 17x15cm./6.6×5.9inch.
Weight: 457gr./16.1oz.

Table medal from the DDR with a porcelain plate. This medal was rewarded when a person reached a 60 year membership of the SED, the ruling party of the DDR. The text in the box says:”Awarded By The Committee Of The Socialistic Unityparty Germany For 60 Year Membership Of The Workersparty”. The image on teh porcelain plate is probably Wilhelm Pieck, first chairman of the SED.

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Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 11cm./4.3inch.
Weight: 184gr./6.4oz.

Table medal from the DDR. The inlay reads:”Party School Karl Liebknecht at the Committee of the SED (Socialist Unity Party)”.
The Karl Liebknecht School was the party school of the German Communist Party.
Mainly it provides courses and seminars on Marxist theory for members of the party and people interested in Marxism. Introductory courses in Scientific Socialism, Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism are held. The school is named after the socialist and co-founder of the Communist Party of Germany, Karl Liebknecht.

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Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 10cm./3.9inch.
Weight: 122gr./4.3oz.

Table medal from The DDR with the image of Ernst Thalmann.
Ernst Thalmann (1886-1944) was a German communist politician. He was leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933. A committed Stalinist, Thalmann played a major role in the political instability of the Weimar Republic in its final years, when the KPD explicitly sought the overthrow of the liberal democracy of the republic. Under his leadership the KPD became intimately associated with the government of the Soviet Union and the policies of Joseph Stalin, and from 1928 the party was largely controlled and funded by Stalin’s government.
The KPD under Thalmann’s leadership regarded the Social Democratic Party (SPD) as Social fascists. Thalmann viewed the Nazi Party as a lesser evil than the social democrats, and in 1931 his party cooperated with the Nazis in an attempt to bring down the social democrat state government. Thalmann believed that a Nazi dictatorship would fail due to flawed economic policies and lead to a revolutionary situation in which the communist party gained power.
Thalmann was also leader of the paramilitary Roter Frontkampferbund, which was banned as extremist by the governing social democrats in 1929, and in 1932 he established Antifaschistische Aktion or Antifa, which concentrated its attacks on the social democrats. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years; Stalin did not seek his release when he entered into the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Germany, and Thalmann’s party rival Walter Ulbricht ignored requests to plead on his behalf. Many of Thalmann’s closest associates who had emigrated to the Soviet Union were executed during the Great Purge of the 1930s. Thalmann was shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler’s personal orders in 1944.
In the First World War he was posted to the artillery on the western front, where he stayed till the end of the war, during the course of which he was wounded twice. He said that he fought in the following battles: Battle of Champagne (1915–1916), Battle of the Somme (1916), Second battle of the Aisne, Battle of Soissons, Battle of Cambrai (1917) (1917) and Battle of Arras (1917).

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Price: 17.50 euro
Size: 15x12cm./5.9×4.7inch.
Weight: 266gr./9.3oz.

Table medal from the DDR. The text on the medal says:”Border troops of the DDR”. The medal is showing a map of East Germany and a hand holding a rifle. The medal is made of porcelain and still in it’s original box.