(1.2.22)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 12x6cm./4.7×2.3inch.
Weight: 55gr./1.9oz.
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Medal made in the DDR for services in the maritime industry. The silver edition. The medal came in three classes: bronze (10 years of service), silver (20 years of service), gold (30 years of service), gold with honour clasp for woman (35 years of service), gold with honour clasp for man (40 years of service).
(1.2.22)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 12x6cm./4.7×2.3inch.
Weight: 55gr./1.9oz.
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Medal made in the DDR for services in the maritime industry. The bronze edition. The medal came in three classes: bronze (10 years of service), silver (20 years of service), gold (30 years of service), gold with honour clasp for woman (35 years of service), gold with honour clasp for man (40 years of service).
Price: 5,00 euro
Size box: 8x6cm./3.1×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 44gr./1.5oz.
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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: 5.00 euro
Size box: 8x6cm./3.1×2.3inch.
Weight: 39gr./1.37oz.
Year: 1986
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Medal made in the DDR in it’s original box made in 1986. The front of the medal reads:”30 Years Of People’s Army”. The back of the medal reads:”Firmly rooted in the people, led by the party, we fulfill the class mission. Forward to the XI party congress of the SED!”.
Price: 5.00 euro
Size box: 11cm./4.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 42gr./1.48oz.
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Medal made in the DDR in it’s original box. The silver edition. The front of the medal reads:”For many years of service”, and the back:”For the protection of workers and farmers”. The medal was awarded in four classes to employees of the Defense Industry: bronze (10 years of service), silver (20 years of service), gold (30 years of service) and special gold (40 years of service for man, 25 years of service for woman).
Price: 5.00 euro
Size box: 8×6cm./3.1×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3cm./1.1inch.
Weight: 37gr./1.3oz.
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Medal made in the DDR. Pestalozzi medal for faithful services. The medal was awarded in three classes to teachers and educators of vacational and educational institutions of the DDR. Bronze (10 years), Silver (20 years), and bronze (30 years).
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. He founded several educational institutions both in German- and French-speaking regions of Switzerland and wrote many works explaining his revolutionary modern principles of education. His motto was “Learning by head, hand and heart”. Thanks to Pestalozzi, illiteracy in 18th-century Switzerland was overcome almost completely by 1830.
Price: 5.00 euro
Size box: 8×6cm./3.1×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3cm./1.1inch.
Weight: 37gr./1.3oz.
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Medal made in the DDR. Pestalozzi medal for faithful services. The medal was awarded in three classes to teachers and educators of vacational and educational institutions of the DDR. Bronze (10 years), Silver (20 years), and bronze (30 years).
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. He founded several educational institutions both in German- and French-speaking regions of Switzerland and wrote many works explaining his revolutionary modern principles of education. His motto was “Learning by head, hand and heart”. Thanks to Pestalozzi, illiteracy in 18th-century Switzerland was overcome almost completely by 1830.
Price: 7.00 euro
Size box: 8×6.5cm./3.1×2.5inch.
Size medal: 3cm./1.1inch.
Weight: 39gr./1.3oz.
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Medal made in the DDR. The gold edition. The back of the medal reads:”For services to the central youth object FDJ initiative Berlin”. This medal was issued by the FDJ. The Free German Youth, also known as the FDJ (in German Freie Deutsche Jugend), is a youth movement in Germany. Formerly it was the official youth movement of the DDR and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. The color blue was their primary colour.
The organization was meant for young people, both male and female, between the ages of 14 and 25. In 1981 it had 2.3 million members. After being a member of the Thalmann Pioneers, which was for schoolchildren ages 6 to 14, East German youths would usually join the FDJ. Those who did not join lost access to organized holidays, and found it difficult to be admitted to universities, pursue chosen careers etc. The majority of youths who refused to join did so for religious reasons.
While the movement was intended to promote Marxist–Leninist ideology among East Germany’s young people, it also arranged thousands of holidays for young people through its Jugendtourist agency, and ran discos and open air rock concerts.
Price: 5.00 euro
Size box: 8×6.5cm./3.1×2.5inch.
Size medal: 3cm./1.1inch.
Weight: 39gr./1.3oz.
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Medal made in the DDR. The bronze edition. The back of the medal reads:”For services to the central youth object FDJ initiative Berlin”. This medal was issued by the FDJ. The Free German Youth, also known as the FDJ (in German Freie Deutsche Jugend), is a youth movement in Germany. Formerly it was the official youth movement of the DDR and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. The color blue was their primary colour.
The organization was meant for young people, both male and female, between the ages of 14 and 25. In 1981 it had 2.3 million members. After being a member of the Thalmann Pioneers, which was for schoolchildren ages 6 to 14, East German youths would usually join the FDJ. Those who did not join lost access to organized holidays, and found it difficult to be admitted to universities, pursue chosen careers etc. The majority of youths who refused to join did so for religious reasons.
While the movement was intended to promote Marxist–Leninist ideology among East Germany’s young people, it also arranged thousands of holidays for young people through its Jugendtourist agency, and ran discos and open air rock concerts.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 9x6cm./3.5×1.9inch.
Size small plaque: 6×2.7cm./2.3x1inch.
Size big plaque: 132cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 68gr./4.6oz.
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Medal made in the DDR. The front of the smaller plaque reads:”5 years collective german soviet friendship”. The Society for German–Soviet Friendship (in German, Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Sowjetische Freundschaft/DSF) was an East German organization set up to encourage closer co-operation between the German Democratic Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
It was founded as the Society for the Studies of Soviet Culture to teach about Russian culture to Germans unfamiliar with it. It quickly turned into a propaganda tool and eventually changed its name.
Due to the immense popularity of Mikhail Gorbachev with ordinary East Germans disillusioned with their own hardline Communist leaders, the DSF’s membership grew massively in the last years of the regime which many interpret as a sign of support of Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika. In 1989 there were 6.3 million members.
Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8.5cm./3.3inch.
Size medal: 4.4×3cm./1.7×1.1inch.
Weight: 68gr./2.oz.
Year: 1989
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Medal made in the DDR, 1989. The back of the medal reads:”For services to the German Democratic Republic”. This medal of honor was awarded on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the DDR.
Price: 6.50 euro
Size box: 8.5cm./3.3inch.
Size medal: 4.5×3.2cm./1.7×1.2inch.
Weight: 68gr./2.oz.
Year: 1979
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Medal made in the DDR, 1979. The back of the medal reads:”For merits in founding and consolidating the DDR”. This medal of honor was awarded on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the DDR.
Price: 5.00 euro
Size box: 8×6.5cm./3.1×2.5inch.
Size medal: 3cm./1.18inch.
Weight: 32gr./1.12oz.
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Medal made in the DDR. The front of the medal reads:”For very good performance in the socialist job competition”, and on the back there is a quote by Lenin:”Learn, learn and learn some more”.
Price: 5.00 euro
Size box: 11cm./4.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 42gr./1.48oz.
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Medal made in the DDR in it’s original box. The bronze edition. The front of the medal reads:”For many years of service”, and the back:”For the protection of workers and farmers”. The medal was awarded in four classes to employees of the Defense Industry: bronze (10 years of service), silver (20 years of service), gold (30 years of service) and special gold (40 years of service for man, 25 years of service for woman).
Price: 5.00 euro
Size box: 8×6.5cm./3.1×2.5inch.
Size medal: 4.2x3cm./1.6×1.1inch.
Weight: 34gr./1.19oz.
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Medal made in the DDR in it’s original box. The text above the medal reads:”Badge of honor”, and below that:”Organs of the administration of justice in the DDR”.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 75gr./2.6oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR. The front of the medal reads:”National memorial ravensbruck”. The back of the medal reads:”German Democratic Republic”.
Ravensbrück was a German concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located near the village of Ravensbrück.
Of 132,000 women who were in the camp during the war includes about 48,500 from Poland, 28,000 from the Soviet Union, almost 24,000 from Germany and Austria, nearly 8,000 from France, and thousands from other countries including a few from the United Kingdom and the United States. More than 20,000 of the total were Jewish, approximately 15%. 85% were from other races and cultures. More than 80 percent were political prisoners. Many prisoners were employed as slave labor by Siemens & Halske.
From 1942 to 1945, the Nazis undertook medical experiments to test the effectiveness of sulfonamides. In the spring of 1941, the SS established a small adjacent camp for male inmates, who built and managed the camp’s gas chambers in 1944. Of some 130,000 female prisoners who passed through the Ravensbrück camp, about 50,000 perished; some 2,200 were killed in the gas chambers.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 75gr./2.6oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR with the image of Werner Seelenbinder.
Werner Seelenbinder (1904-1944) was a German communist and wrestler. In 1928 and 1929 he won the Spartakiad in Moscow; over 200 German sportsmen were banned from the contest, but Seelenbinder, with his interest in Marxism, took part.
His first trip to Moscow had already persuaded him to become a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1933 he refused to give the Nazi salute when receiving his medal at the German Wrestling Championship and was punished with a sixteen-month ban on training and sports events. As a committed communist Seelenbinder was appalled by the 1936 Olympic Games that were to be held in Nazi Germany. He had originally planned to boycott it, but friends persuaded him to compete anyway, win, and defy the Nazis by not giving the required Nazi salute, but to use a vulgar gesture instead. This plan was foiled when he lost the first match.
Seelenbinder’s illegal activities as a courier and his participation in the Uhrig Group had caught the attention: he was arrested, along with 65 other members of the group, on 4 February 1942 and after being tortured for eight days, and enduring nine camps and prisons for two and half years, he was sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof, he was executed for treason on 24 October 1944 at Brandenburg-Görden Prison. He was beheaded with an ax.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 75gr./2.6oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR. The text on the front of the medal reads:”Central youth object. FDJ initiative Berlin”.
In the DDR, a youth object was a form of temporary task assigned to a youth collective, which was often initiated and organized by the leadership of the SED or the youth association FDJ.
These tasks could arise from the areas of industry, agriculture, construction, science, teaching and research or education in general. Every state-owned enterprise (VEB), every agricultural production cooperative (LPG), and even every administrative unit, had their own youth objects. For example, in 1974 a total of 854,912 young people worked on 68,370 youth objects.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 75gr./2.6oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR. The text on the front of the medal reads:”First president of the German worker and farmer state”, and the back of the medal reads:”German Democratic republic”. The head on the front of the medal is Wilhelm Pieck.
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: 10.00 euro
Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch.
Size medal: 5.7cm./2.2inch.
Weight: 77gr./2.7oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR. On the top of the front of the medal it reads:”Protect and help”, beneath that:”Civil protection”. The back of the medal reads:”Ready to work and to protect the homeland”. The Civil defense of the DDR was an organization for the protection of the population, the economy, vital facilities and cultural values against the consequences of disasters and accidents. In the event of war, it should also serve to protect its own population from military operations.
(8.35.22)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 10.5×8.5cm./4.1×3.3inch.
Size medal: 3.2cm./1.25inch.
Weight: 75gr./2.6oz.
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Medal made in the DDR. The text on the front of the medal reads:”Fighters against fascism”, and the back reads:”Forward and don’t forget”. They started making this medal in 1958 and was awarded for involvement in the resistance against the Nazi regime in 1933-1945.
(8.35.22)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 10.5×8.5cm./4.1×3.3inch.
Size medal: 3.2cm./1.25inch.
Weight: 75gr./2.6oz.
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Medal made in the DDR. The text on the front of the medal reads:”Fighter against the reaction”, and the back of the medal reads:”Freedom, peace and socialism”. The rifle with the red flag is the symbol of the KDA. The Combat Groups of the Working Class (German: Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse, KDA) was a paramilitary organization in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1953 to 1989. The KDA served for the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany composed of party members and politically reliable working people, based on dictatorship of the proletariat principles, to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. The KDA was a civil reserve force tied to the GDR’s Ministry of the Interior and the Volkspolizei, reaching 211,000 personnel at its peak in 1980. The KDA was disbanded after the opening of the Berlin Wall in late 1989.
(5.22)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 12x6cm./4.7×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3cm./1.18inch.
Weight: 61gr./2.15oz.
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DDR medal, gold class. The medal was awarded in three classes, gold, silver and bronze, for faithful fulfillment of duties and recognition of exemplary achievements in the ranks of the combat groups of the DDR.
(3.75.22)
Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 12×7.5cm./4.7×2.9inch.
Size medal: 3.7cm./1.45inch.
Weight: 91gr./3.2oz.
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Medal still in it’s original box. The text on the medal reads:”For serving home”. This is a medal known as the “Medal for Service to the Homeland Class 2”. It was awarded for acts of military merit and/or long service. It features the “wolf’s tooth flag” that is the standard of Hungarian military action since medieval times. Three classes exist: Class III bronze with green ribbon, Class II silver with blue ribbon and Class I gold with orange ribbon.
(3.75.22)
Price: 5.00 euro
Size box: 10x9cm./3.9×3.5inch.
Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 49gr./1.72oz.
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Medal still in it’s original box and with a pin. In good condition.
The medal says:”Young master of profession”.
(3.75.22)
Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 12×7.5cm./4.7×2.9inch.
Size medal: 4cm./1.57inch.
Weight: 75gr./2.64oz.
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Medal made in Hungary. This medal was awarded for “52 Years of Service” in the Worker Guardians. multi-part construction. enamel on brass.
The belongs to one of the most interesting parts of the labor system of the Peoples Republic of Hungary. It was a badge worn by a “Worker Guardian”.
A worker guardian was a worker, who has not enlisted in the military, who trained like the military for the necessity of civil defense. during the administration of Janos Kadar, the military budget of Hungary was drastically reduced in order to raise the living standards of the citizens. Millions of Hungarian workers (organized by trade unions) trained with rifles, mortars, machine guns, and even artillery to support the regular military in the event of an invasion.
(3.75.22)
Price: 5.00 euro
Size box: 8x7cm./3.1×2.7inch.
Size medal: 2.5x2cm./0.9×0.7inch.
Weight: 51gr./1.79oz.
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Medal made in Hungary. This is a blood donations medal produced by the government of the Peoples Republic of Hungary. There are three classes to this medal: bronze for 10, silver for 15, and gold for 20 blood donations. In a Socialist system, the idea of sharing and collectivization is the basis for all aspects of life.
(7.5.22)
Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 12×7.5cm./4.7×2.9inch.
Size medal: 4cm./1.57inch.
Weight: 89gr./3.13oz.
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Medal made in Hungary. This is a “Public Security Medal, Class II” awarded by the Peoples Republic of Hungary. The recipient would have been a police officer of the Interior Ministry, which included everyday cops, for twenty years of service without any major discipline. Bronze and gold classes also exist.
(7.5.22)
Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 11×8.5cm./4.3×3.3inch.
Size medal: 3.2cm./1.25inch.
Weight: 97gr./3.42oz.
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Medal made in Hungary. The text on the medal reads:”Excellent worker of collective industry”. The large medal size was only to be worn on holidays and special occasions. The small medal was intended for everyday wear. Awarded by the Peoples Republic of Hungary (1949-1989) for exemplary labor in collectives. there are several variations available for this award (different medals used, etc). three-piece construction of enamel on brass and aluminum.
(7.5.22)
Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 10.5x7cm./4.1×2.7inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 75gr./2.9oz.
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Medal made in Hungary. The text on the medal reads:”For flood protection”. This Medal was originally founded to recognize the extraordinary emergency efforts of civilians and military personnel in response to the 1954 Danube floods.
In 1955, the statutes of the Medal were altered, and the medal’s inscription was changed, in order to expand the eligibility of the Medal to individuals who would provide aid and service in future floods; such as the 1956 Mohacs island floods. On June 20, 1965, the obverse design and inscription of the medal was altered permanently. Thus, there are two main models of the medal.
The medals awarded from 1954 to 1965, depict a man carrying a child out of flood waters on the obverse medallion. The obverse inscription from 1954 reads “1954 EV DUNAI ARVIZVEDELEMERT,” and the obverse inscription from 1955-1965 reads ” DUNAI ARVIZVEDELEMERT.”
The medals awarded from 1965 to 1989, depict a man working to create a flood wall on the obverse medallion, and feature the obverse inscription “ARVIZVEDELEMERT.”
(7.5.22)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 10.5x7cm./4.1×2.7inch.
Size medal: 4cm./1.57inch.
Weight: 83gr./2.9oz.
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Medal made in Hungary. The text on the medal reads:”Excellent Blood Donor”. This type of medal came in three classes. Bronze, silver and gold. This is the bronze edition.
(2.22)
Price: 5.00 euro
Size box: 6.5cm./2.5inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.57inch.
Weight: 43gr./1.51oz.
Year: 1956
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Table medal made in the DDR, 1956. The text on the medal reads:”German Gymnastics And Sports Festival, 1956”. This was the 2nd. festival.
The Gymnastics and Sports Festival of the DDR took place from 1954 to 1987 a total of eight times. The first German gymnastics and sports festival took place on the festival meadow next to the planned central stadium, in the stadium of peace and Bruno-Plache Stadium. With the 2nd festival it moved to the new central stadium, which was opened in 1956 in Leipzich. Here, as with all the following festivals, the main events took place: a sports show raised as a sporty propaganda event, often a football international game, an international athletics event and a magnificent closing event.
The Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB German Gymnastics and Sports Federation) was a mass organization of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 until shortly after German reunification. Membership in the organization included nearly four million people, which accounted for almost 20% of the population of the GDR.
Founded in 1957, the DTSB was the last major mass organization to be created by the East German government, and was the central agency responsible for mass sport. The federation consisted of individual sports associations within the country, ranging from sailing to chess. While it worked in conjunction with the Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST), the DTSB focused more on adult activities, whereas the GST focused on youth activities.
Upon the dissolution of East Germany and reunification with the West, the organization was disbanded and the individual sports associations either continued to exist independently or joined their Western counterparts.
(18.21)
Price: 23.50 euro
Size box: 8.2×7.3cm./3.2×2.8inch.
Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 129gr./4.5oz.
Year: 1980
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Table medal made in the Soviet Union for the Olympic Games, 1980, in Moscow. The text on the front of the medal reads:”Olympic Committee CCCP” and on the back it reads (in Latin):”Faster, Higher, Stronger”.
(R.24.21)
Price: 32.00 euro
Size box: 20x13cm./7.8×5.1inch.
Size medal: 13.5×6.5cm./5.3×2.5inch.
Weight: 483gr./17oz.
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Tablemedal made in Hungary. Soviet and Hungarian women release pigeons together in friendship. Bronze plaque signed in original box. The original monument stands at a museum.
(R.27.21)
Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 8.5cm./3.3inch.
Weight: 203gr./7.1oz.
Year: 1949
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Tablemedal made in Hungary by Miklos Borsos. With the image of Stalin and a date (1949).
Miklos Borsos (1906-1990) was a Hungarian sculptor and medallist. His style integrated elements of archaic art and classicism with modern elements.
Borsos made use of all sculptural genres. He developed embossing of copper plates (which was a rare technique at that point in history), and produced a number of sculptures for public places and sepulchral monuments focusing on a modern environmental culture which often bore a deep personal message and reflected great intimacy (combining symbolic motifs of natural life, as well as cultural values). Human and animal figures were common subject, and his forté was not in fine detail but in creating overall masterpieces. Borsos also became focused on portrait art during the late 1950s and 1960s, where his work integrated aspects of nature, atmosphere, as well as cultural and spiritual traditions into a new genre of sculptural art.
In 1979, Borsos opened the Miklos Borsos Art Gallery in Győr. It is situated in the oldest neighbourhood of the city and is now the Miklós Borsos City Art Museum.
Miklos was awarded the title Artist of Merit of the Hungarian People’s Republic in 1967.
(2.5.21)
Price: 5.00 euro
Size: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 35gr./1.2oz.
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Medal made in the Soviet Union. Made of aluminium. The text on the medal reads:”Lenin, Leader Of The October Revolution”.
(2.5.21)
Price: 22.50 euro
Size: 5.5cm./2.16inch.
Weight: 89gr./3.1oz.
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Table medal from Belarus. The text on this beautiful medal reads:”Communist Party of Belarus. Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic”. Alloy of copper and zinc. 5450 of this medal were made.
(2.5.21)
Price: 3.50 euro
Size: 6.5x3cm./2.5×1.1inch.
Weight: 27gr./0.9oz.
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Medal made in the Soviet Union. The meda is called:”In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin”. They made about 10.000.000 medals of these and started with it in 1969. There are 3 types of medals; For Valliant Labour, For Military Valour and To Foreign Leaders. This is the “For Valliant Labour” version.
It was awarded to eminent members of Soviet society, the military leadership and foreign members of the international communist and labour movements.
(2.2.21)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
Year: 1978
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Table medal made in the DDR, 1978. The front of the medal reads:”For the protection of workers and peasant power”, and the back:”Combatgroups of the working class, 25 Years 1953-1978″. The Combat Groups of the Working Class (German: Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse, KDA) was a paramilitary organization in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1953 to 1989. The KDA served for the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany composed of party members and politically reliable working people, based on dictatorship of the proletariat principles, to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. The KDA was a civil reserve force tied to the GDR’s Ministry of the Interior and the Volkspolizei, reaching 211,000 personnel at its peak in 1980. The KDA was disbanded after the opening of the Berlin Wall in late 1989.
(2.2.21)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
Year: 1989
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Table medal made in the DDR, 1989. The front of the medal reads:”Day of the miner and the energy worker of the DDR”. On the back of the medal there is VEB “Volkseigener Betrieb” wich means Publicly Owned Enterprise. Many company had the title VEB. In this case it was a oil and gas company.
(2.2.21)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
Year: 1987
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Table medal made in the DDR, 1987. The front of the medal reads:”State Forestry Enterprise”.
(2.2.21)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR. On the frotn there is the image of 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 were he was shot dead in 1944.
The text on the back of the medal shows the Concentrationcamp Sachsenhausn memorial. The text reads:”national Reminder And Memorial”.
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Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR with the image of Karl Marx. The text on the back of the medal reads:”German Democratic Republic”. Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German thinker and philosopher. He created the workers movement. His most important work is Das Kapital and the Communist Manifest. Bassicly he was the inventor of communism. His work and thoughts are called Marxism. Lenin was a strong believer of Marxism when he was turning Russia into the first communist state after the October Revolution in 1917. Friedrich Engels was his lifetime friend and was supporting Karl financially and publiced many of Karl Marx writings after the death of Karl.
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Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR. On the front there is the image of Ernst Thalmann. 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) and Battle of Arras (1917).
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Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR. On the front of the medal there is an image of Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher. Von Blucher (1742-1819) was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal). He earned his greatest recognition after leading his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
On the back of the medal there is the Battle Of Nations monument.
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Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
Year: 1989
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Table medal made in the DDR, 1989. The text on the back of the medal reads:”25 Years Of Water Supply And Sewage Treatment”.
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Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
Year: 1987
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Table medal made in the DDR, 1987. “Oebisfelde” is a city in Germany. The text on the back of the medal reads:”105 Years Of Volunteer Fire Brigade 1882-1987″.
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Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR. The text on the back of the medal reads:”Railway Repairs Works”.
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Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR with the image of Friedrich Engels. Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) was a German philosopher, historian, communist, social scientist, sociologist, journalist and businessman. His father was an owner of large textile factories in England.
Engels developed what is now known as Marxist theory together with Karl Marx and in 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research in English cities. In 1848, Engels co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Marx and also authored and co-authored (primarily with Marx) many other works. Later, Engels supported Marx financially, allowing him to do research and write Das Kapital. After Marx’s death, Engels edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital. Additionally, Engels organised Marx’s notes on the Theories of Surplus Value, which were later published as the “fourth volume” of Das Kapital. In 1884, he published The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State on the basis of Marx’s ethnographic research.
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Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR. On the front there is a image of Lenin with his birth year and year of death. The text on the back of the medal reads:”German Democratic Republic”.
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Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
Year: 1988
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Table medal made in the DDR, 1988. The text on the front of the medal reads:”Truck Repair Works”.
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Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR. “Schwerin is a city in Germany. The text on the back of the medal reads:”German Democratic Republic”.
(3.5.21)
Price: 6.00 euro
Size box: 6.5cm./0.22inch.
Size medal: 6cm./0.21inch.
Weight: 55gr./194oz.
Year: 1985
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Table medal made in the Soviet Union, 1985, to commemorate the end of WWII. The text on the medal reads:”No One Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Forgotten”.
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Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 11cm./4.3inch.
Size medal: 6.5cm./2.5inch.
Weight: 120gr./4.2oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR with the Buchenwald Memorial Tower. Made of porcelain. In keeping with a DDR government resolution, construction of the “Nationale Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Buchenwald” (“National Buchenwald Memorial”) got underway in 1954. By 1958, a monumental national memorial had been erected on the south slope of the Ettersberg.
Three mass graves were incorporated into the design. The complex was conceived in such a way as to guide the visitors along a path from death to life: beginning at the crematorium and leading through the camp, the path then descends to the graves, and finally ascends to the bell tower as a symbol of freedom and light. The German Communist members of the resistance are the central element.
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Price: 8.00 euro
Size box: 11cm./4.3inch.
Size medal: 4cm./1.5inch.
Weight: 137gr./4.8oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR with the image of Johannes Brecher. The medal has been touched by time. The text on the back of the medal reads:”For excellent cultural policies”. Johannes Robert Becher (1891-1958) was a German politician, novelist, and poet. He was affiliated with the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) before World War II. At one time, he was part of the literary avant-garde, writing in an expressionist style. With the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany, modernist artistic movements were suppressed. Becher escaped from a military raid in 1933 and settled in Paris for a couple of years. He migrated to the Soviet Union in 1935 with the central committee of the KPD.
After the end of World War II, Becher left the Soviet Union and returned to Germany, settling in the Soviet-occupied zone that later became East Berlin. As a member of the KPD, he was appointed to various cultural and political positions and became part of the leadership of the Socialist Unity Party. In 1949, he helped found the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin, and served as its president from 1953 to 1956. In 1953 he was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize (later the Lenin Peace Prize). He was the culture minister of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1954 to 1958.
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Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 11cm./4.3inch.
Size medal: 7cm./2.7inch.
Weight: 111gr./3.9oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR. On the medal is the Soviet War memorial wich stands in Treptower park in Berlin. The medal is made in the cold war era and made of plastic.
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Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 9cm./3.5inch.
Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 131gr./4.6oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR. The medal has got patina on it. The text on teh back of the medal reads:”For excellent performance in fulfilling the legacy and care of the heritage of antifascist rfighters”.
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Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 11cm./4.3inch.
Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 126gr./4.4oz.
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Medal made in the DDR from dark porcelain. The text on the front of the medal reads:”VEB Kombinat electroprojects and plant constructions”, and on teh back of the medal it reads:”For outstanding new services”. 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.
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Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 10cm./3.9oz.
Size medal: 6.5cm./2.5inch.
Weight: 77gr./2.7oz.
Year: 1985
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Medal made in the DDR, 1985, made from porcelain. The text in the box reads:”To Remember” with teh names of the Chief Editor and the Publishing Director. On the front of the medal the text reads:”40 years (1945-1985) Schwerin People’s Newspaper” and on the back of the medal it reads:”825 Year (1160-1985) Schwerin”. Schwerin was and is also a city.
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Price: 8.50 euro
Size box: 9cm./3.5inch.
Size medal: 4cm./1.5inch.
Weight: 71gr./2.5oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR. This medal is in silver but also comes in bronze. The front of the medal reads:”Berlin transport company”, and the back of the medal reads:”For Excellent Service. Taxi, subway, tram, bus. The White Fleet”.
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Price: 8.50 euro
Size box: 9cm./3.5inch.
Size medal: 4cm./1.5inch.
Weight: 71gr./2.5oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR. This medal is bronze but comes also in silver. The front of the medal reads:”Berlin transport company”, and the back of the medal reads:”For Excellent Service. Taxi, subway, tram, bus. The White Fleet”.
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Price: 12.50 euroi
Size box: 11cm./4.3inch.
Size medal: 6.5cm./2.5inch.
Weight: 138gr./4.8oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR during the cold war era and made of porcelain. The text in the box reads:”State insurance of the German democratic republic”. The text on the front of the medal reads:”For exemplary damage prevention”, and on the back:”State insurance of the DDR”.
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Price: 4.50 euro
Size box: 6.5cm./2.5inch.
Size medal: 4cm./1.5inch.
Weight: 43gr./1.5oz.
Year: 1977
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Table medal made in the DDR. The Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB German Gymnastics and Sports Federation) was a mass organization of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 until shortly after German reunification. Membership in the organization included nearly four million people, which accounted for almost 20% of the population of the GDR.
Founded in 1957, the DTSB was the last major mass organization to be created by the East German government, and was the central agency responsible for mass sport. The federation consisted of individual sports associations within the country, ranging from sailing to chess. While it worked in conjunction with the Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST), the DTSB focused more on adult activities, whereas the GST focused on youth activities.
Upon the dissolution of East Germany and reunification with the West, the organization was disbanded and the individual sports associations either continued to exist independently or joined their Western counterparts.
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Price: 4.50 euro
Size box: 6.5cm./2.5inch.
Size medal: 4cm./1.5inch.
Weight: 43gr./1.5oz.
Year: 1977
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Table medal made in the DDR, 1977. The text on the medal reads:”German Democratic Republic, Leipzig, 1954”. The Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB German Gymnastics and Sports Federation) was a mass organization of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 until shortly after German reunification. Membership in the organization included nearly four million people, which accounted for almost 20% of the population of the GDR.
Founded in 1957, the DTSB was the last major mass organization to be created by the East German government, and was the central agency responsible for mass sport. The federation consisted of individual sports associations within the country, ranging from sailing to chess. While it worked in conjunction with the Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST), the DTSB focused more on adult activities, whereas the GST focused on youth activities.
Upon the dissolution of East Germany and reunification with the West, the organization was disbanded and the individual sports associations either continued to exist independently or joined their Western counterparts.
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Price: 5.00 euro
Size box: 6.5cm./2.5inch.
Size medal: 4cm./1.5inch.
Weight: 43gr./1.5oz.
Year: 1954
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Table medal made in the DDR, 1954. The text on the medal reads:”German Gymnastics And Sports Festival, 1954”. The Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB German Gymnastics and Sports Federation) was a mass organization of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 until shortly after German reunification. Membership in the organization included nearly four million people, which accounted for almost 20% of the population of the GDR.
Founded in 1957, the DTSB was the last major mass organization to be created by the East German government, and was the central agency responsible for mass sport. The federation consisted of individual sports associations within the country, ranging from sailing to chess. While it worked in conjunction with the Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST), the DTSB focused more on adult activities, whereas the GST focused on youth activities.
Upon the dissolution of East Germany and reunification with the West, the organization was disbanded and the individual sports associations either continued to exist independently or joined their Western counterparts.
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Price: 4.50 euro
Size box: 6.5cm./2.5inch.
Size medal: 4cm./1.5inch.
Weight: 43gr./1.5oz.
Year: 1969
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Table medal made in the DDR, 1969. The text on the medal reads:”German Gymnastics And Sports Festival, DDR, Leipzig, 1969”. The Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB German Gymnastics and Sports Federation) was a mass organization of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 until shortly after German reunification. Membership in the organization included nearly four million people, which accounted for almost 20% of the population of the GDR.
Founded in 1957, the DTSB was the last major mass organization to be created by the East German government, and was the central agency responsible for mass sport. The federation consisted of individual sports associations within the country, ranging from sailing to chess. While it worked in conjunction with the Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST), the DTSB focused more on adult activities, whereas the GST focused on youth activities.
Upon the dissolution of East Germany and reunification with the West, the organization was disbanded and the individual sports associations either continued to exist independently or joined their Western counterparts.
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Price: 4.50 euro
Size box: 6.5cm./2.5inch.
Size medal: 4cm./1.5inch.
Weight: 43gr./1.5oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR. The text on the medal reads:”German Gymnastics And Sports Festival, DTSB”. The Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB German Gymnastics and Sports Federation) was a mass organization of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 until shortly after German reunification. Membership in the organization included nearly four million people, which accounted for almost 20% of the population of the GDR.
Founded in 1957, the DTSB was the last major mass organization to be created by the East German government, and was the central agency responsible for mass sport. The federation consisted of individual sports associations within the country, ranging from sailing to chess. While it worked in conjunction with the Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST), the DTSB focused more on adult activities, whereas the GST focused on youth activities.
Upon the dissolution of East Germany and reunification with the West, the organization was disbanded and the individual sports associations either continued to exist independently or joined their Western counterparts.
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Price: 4.50 euro
Size box: 6.5cm./2.5inch.
Size medal: 3cm./1.1inch.
Weight: 32gr./1.1oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR. The text on the medal reads:”Winner In Socialist Competition”.
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Price: 4.50 euro
Size box: 6.5cm./2.5inch.
Size medal: 4cm./1.5inch.
Weight: 56gr./1.9oz.
Year: 1979
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Table medal made in the DDR, 1979. The text on the medal reads:”Magdeburg, City Of Heavy Engineering. 30th. birthday DDR”.
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Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 7cm./2.7inch.
Size medal: 4cm./1.5inch.
Weight: 72gr./2.5oz.
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Table medal from the DDR. The text on the medal raeds:”Fritz Behn (1904-1944) Ciommemorative Plaque”, and on the back:”Fritz Behn company school. For exemplary performance”.
Fritz Behn (1904-1944) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism. Behn spent his childhood in poor conditions on Usedom. After completing compulsory schooling in a one-class village school, he worked in Westphalia for several years and became a carpenter.
In 1924 he became a member of the SPD and returned to his homeland. Disappointed with the SPD’s coalition policy, he switched to the KPD (Communist party Germany) in in the spring of 1927.
Behn became a KPD speaker and appeared at many village meetings in. In March 1933 he was imprisoned in prison for a few weeks. Nonetheless, he continued to resist after his release. During the Second World War he was drafted into a naval construction battalion and from the summer of 1941 deployed in the Leningrad section of the front. With other war and Nazi opponents in his unit, he secretly formed an anti-fascist soldier group, which developed into a Wehrmacht group of the National Committee Free Germany (NKFD).
They were in contact with the Russian teacher Vasily Grigoryevich Titov, who led a local resistance group. He made it possible for them to hear the German-language broadcasts on Radio Moscow. The resistance group spread this news among the soldiers of the Wehrmacht in their area. Behn also handed over plans for the military objects on the Baltic coast to Titow. In August 1943, eight members of the NKFD group were arrested after being denounced. A court martial sentenced Fritz Behn to be shot dead on January 6, 1944 in the dunes near Tallinn. Titov and at least 40 other Soviet citizens were hanged without trial soon after their arrest.
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Price: 55.00 euro
Size: 13cm./5.1inch.
Weight: 540gr./19oz.
Year: 1978
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Table medal made in the Soviet Union, 1978. Solid bronze plaque in front of the 3 armed forces, air, navy and army with their own flag behind it. The text on the medal reads:”60 years of armed forces of the CCCP”.
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.
(R.22.21)
Price: 30.00 euro
Size box: 15.5x12cm./6.1×4.7inch.
Size medal: 14×8.5cm./5.5×3.3inch.
Weight: 700gr./24.6oz.
Medal/plaque in it’s original box from Hungary. Beautifully depicted, a hand protecting a motherand child against bombs and nuclear weapons. Plaque is made of bronze.
(R.22.21)
Price: 29.00 euro
Size medal: 10.3x9cm./4×3.5inch.
Size box: 16.7×15.3cm./6.5x6inch.
Weight: 531gr./18.7oz.
Year: 1960
Table medal from Hungary made in 1960. Solid chromed with bronze honor branch along the side. Under a ribbon in Hungarian colors that goes with a bow around the honor. Beautiful with coat of arms of Communist Hungary. Socialist brigade plaque in original box.
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Price: 17.50 euro
Size medal: 6.7x5cm./2.6×1.9inch.
Size box: 12x10cm./4.7×3.9inch.
Weight: 240gr./8.4oz.
Table medal from the Soviet Union wioth the image of Lenin.
(R.18.21)
Price: 23.50 euro
Size medal: 10x9cm./3.9×3.5inch.
Size box: 16x15cm./6.2×5.9inch.
Weight: 336gr./11.8oz.
Year: 1963
Military shooting competition shield in box. Solid chrome plated with bronze honorary branch along the side. Underneath a ribbon in Hungarian colors that goes around the honorary oak branch with a bow.
(R.24.21)
Price: 32.00 euro
Size: 28.5x8cm./11.2×3.1inch.
Weight: 158gr./5.5oz.
5 x medals WW2 in original box. 5 Tokens of the Second World War. They are in a transparent original box where the tokens can be viewed on both sides. Of course they can be removed from the box. Th text on the plate raeds:”No One Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Forgotten”.
(R.6.5.21)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 23gr./0.8oz.
Year: 1976
Table medal made in the Soviet Union, 1976. The text on the front of the medal reads:”Moscow Kazan Railway Station built according to the project and under the leadership of academician A.V. Shchuseva”. The text on the flag reads:”50 Years”. The sculpture on the back of the medal stands on top of the railway station.
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Price: 16.00 euro
Size: 7.2cm./2.8inch.
Weight: 135gr./4.7oz.
Table medal made in the Soviet Union. The front of the medal reads:”Citizens, Keep The Monuments Of Arts”. And it pictures a propagandaposter made by Nikolay Kupreyanov in 1919.
The back of the medal reads:”All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Restoration”.
(R.4.21)
Price: 6.00 euro
Size: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 36gr./1.2oz.
Year: 1985
Table medal made in the Soviet Union, 1985. The medal was made for the 12th. world festival of youth and students in 1985. The 12th World Festival of Youth and Students was a festival held in Moscow from July 27 to August 3, 1985.[The festival was attended by 26,000 people from 157 countries. The slogan of the festival was “For anti-imperialist solidarity, peace and friendship”.
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Price: 28.00 euro
Size: 7cm./2.7inch.
Weight: 148gr./5.2oz.
Year: 1985
Warsaw Pact table medal. Made in 1985 to celebrate 30 years of Warsaw Pact (1955-1985). On the front the coat of amrs of the participating country’s and on the back there are 2 AK-47’s.
The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance of communist countries that existed between 1955 and 1991. It was established as a counterpart to NATO at the suggestion of Soviet party leader Nikita Khrushchev.
The treaty was signed on 14 May 1955 in the Polish capital, Warsaw, in response to NATO by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, the GDR, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia. All but one of the communist states in Eastern Europe were members: only Yugoslavia was left out. The members of the pact promised to defend each other if one or more members were attacked.
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Price: 7.50 euro
Size medal: 8.5cm./3.3inch.
Size box: 16cm./6.2inch.
Weight: 522gr./18.4oz.
Hungarian table medal 30 years Association of Wood and Paper Cooperatives under Soviet supervision in box. Signed BM Communist Hungary. Medal is made of bronze. Large and heavy.
(R.4.21)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size medal: 7cm./2.7inch.
Size box: 13cm./5.1inch.
Weight: 187gr./6.5oz.
Table medal from Hungary made in 1977.” Budapest International Fall Fair September 16-25, 1977″ Commemorative medal in original box. Medal is made of bronze.
(R.22.21)
Price: 29.00 euro
Size: 16cm./6.2inch.
Weight: 584gr./20.5oz.
Soviet large air defense plaque. Bronze large and heavy plaque in it’s original box. Signed RP. On display is a star, Mig 21, Rocket S-75 Dwina and a Soldier.
(R.32.5.21)
Price: 43.00 euro
Size: 18.4cm./7.2inch.
Weight: 1176gr./41.4oz.
Warsaw Pact tank metal desk ornament with Sputnik on the back. Warsaw pact era communist sculpture/relief, remnant of the armed forces. Tanks and Armor (T-55, PTSZ, APC).
(R.24.21)
Price: 30.00 euro
Size medal: 7.8cm./3inch.
Size box: 14.8cm./5.8inch.
Weight: 400gr./14oz.
Year: 1984
Hungarian table medal. About the military Soviet liberation Hungary. Heavy bronze plaque in box. Signed by artist BGY. Celebration 40 years after the liberation of Hungary by the Soviet Union. On the back the date and an image of the monument “Soviet and Hungarian women who release pigeons together in friendship”.
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Price: 32.00 euro
Size medal: 8cm./3.1inch.
Size box: 12.5cm./4.9inch.
Weight: 255gr./8.9oz.
Remembrance Holocaust WW2 table medal in original box. Made of bronze. Nicely depicted, people hanging from the barbed wire with a watchtower next to it and flames at their feet.
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Price: 27.00 euro
Size medal: 7cm./2.7inch.
Weight: 175gr./6.1oz.
Table medal from the Soviet Union with the image of Lenin. The text on the medal reads:”Lenin Is Alive Forever”. Signed by the artist.
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: 50.00 euro
Size: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 41gr./1.4oz.
Medal made in North Korea. The name of the medal is: “Order of the Red Banner Of Three Great Revolutions”.
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.
(3.21)
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.
(3.21)
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).
(3.21)
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: 10.00 euro
Size box: 12×7.5cm./4.7×2.9inch.
Size medal big: 5×3.5cm./1.9×1.3inch.
Size medal small: 2.5x2cm./0.9×0.7inch.
Weight: 78gr./2.7oz.
Medal made in Hungary. The text on the medal reads:”The brigade of your company”.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 12×7.5cm./4.7×2.9inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 76gr./2.6oz.
Medal made in Hungary. The text on the back of the medal reads:”Defense Merit Medal”.
Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 12×7.5cm./4.7×2.9inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 76gr./2.6oz.
Medal made in Hungary. The text on the back of the medal reads:”Defense Merit Medal”.
Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 12×7.5cm./4.7×2.9inch.
Size medal: 8.5x4cm./3.3×1.5inch.
Weight: 74gr./2.6oz.
Table medal made in Hungary. The text on the medal reads:”Excellent producer cooperative worker”.
Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 8.5cm./3.3inch.
Size big pin: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Size small pin: 2cm./0.7inch.
Weight: 68gr./2.3oz.
Medal from Hungary in it’s original box. The text on the award reads:”Internal Trade Excellent Worker”. This is an award for “For an Excellent Worker of the Domestic Trade”, struck by the Peoples Republic of Hungary. It was awarded for distribution work in a planned economy.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 9.5x9cm./3.7×3.5inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Size pin: 1.5cm./0.5inch.
Weight: 50gr./1.7oz.
Hungary medal and a pin in it’s original box.
The Hungarian Young Communist League (KISZ) was a communist youth movement in Hungary. It was founded on 21 March 1957 (on the anniversary of the Hungarian Soviet Republic’s declaration in 1919), following the break of 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It claimed to represent all the country’s youth and sought to educate young people politically and to supervise political as well as some social activities for them. KISZ was the most important source of new members for the party. Its organizational framework paralleled that of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party and included a congress, central committee, secretariat, and regional and local committees. Membership was open to youth from the ages of fourteen to twenty-six years, but most of the full-time leaders of the organization were well over the age limit. In the 1980s, KISZ had about 800,000 members. Membership was common among students (96% at universities, 75% in high schools) but was lower among young people already working (31%). It was mandatory for university admittance.
Price: 12.50 euro
Size box: 10x7cm./3.9×2.7inch.
Weight: 122gr./4.3oz.
Table medal in solid plexiglas box. Hungary communist medal for participation in a Socialist Workers Brigade. The text on the medal reads:”Socialism”.
Workers at a work place were divided in workers brigades. Some big factory could have more than 100 brigades. The most productive brigades were awarded with these medals.
The organisation instilled socialist politics into its members such as working hard to build a better future for all fellow socialists and the idea of an extended friendship towards other like minded individuals. The socialist workers brigade started in 1959.
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.
