(R. 14.22)

Price: 18.00 euro
Size box: 11cm./4.3inch.
Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 175gr./6.1oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR ​The plaque is probably stainless steel, non-magnetic and high glossy. The committee replaced the Association of Persecutors of the Nazi Regime (VVN), which had been dissolved in the DDR in 1953. It was an organization closely associated with the SED. Without being a member itself, the committee worked closely with the National Front. On the other side an image of Ernst Thalmann.

(R. 24.22)

Price: 31.00 euro
Size: 9cm./3.5inch.
Weight: 252gr./8.8oz.
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Plaque/table medal made in the DDR with the image of Karl Marx and with signature with his year of birth and death. Made of bronze. 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.

Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 11.5cm./4.5inch.
Size medal: 7.5cm./2.9inch.
Weight: 156gr./5.5oz.
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Tablemedal in wooden case made in the DDR. The text on the medal reads:”Product group 61, hunting, sporting weapons, ammunition and accessories”, and on teh other side:”Grand Prix Leipzig 1968″.

Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch.
Weight: 75gr./2.6oz.
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Medal made in the DDR. On the front of the medal is Olga Benario Prestes and dat eof birth and death. On the back it reads:”National memorial Ravensbruck”. Olga Benário Prestes (born Olga Gutmann Benario Munich, 1908-1942) was a German-Brazilian communist militant. In 1934 she escorted at the request of the Komintern Luís Carlos Pestes to Brazil, where the “Knight of Hope” wanted to start the revolution. They traveled disguised as a couple and soon fell in love with each other. In November 1935, however, the rebellion failed dramatically. They were betrayed and arrested. Shortly thereafter, Olga was deported to Germany by ship and delivered to the Gestapo. In 1938 she was deported to the Lichtenberg concentration camp and later to Ravensbrück, where, according to reports, she tried to maintain solidarity among the prisoners. Together with other Jewish prisoners, she was gassed on April 23, 1942. In a letter to her husband, who only received it years later, she writes: “I fought for the right, the good, and the best in this world”.

Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 12x6cm./4.7×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 70gr./2.4oz.
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Medal made in the DDR. Medal for 10 years of faithful service in militarised organs of the Interior Ministry. The text on the medal reads:”For 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: 11cm./4.3inch.
Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 164gr./5.7oz.
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Table medal made in the DDR. The text on the medal reads:”Metal trade. State-owned external and internal trading company of the GDR””, and on the back:”For loyal 25 years of work in the metal trade”.

Price: 15.00 euro
Size box: 10.5cm./4.1inch.
Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 163gr./5.7oz.
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table medal made in the DDR. The text on the medal reads:”Metallurgy trade. For excellent work”, and on the back:”Metaltrade. German Democratic Republic”.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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 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).

(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 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”.

(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. “Oebisfelde” is a city in Germany. The text on the back of the medal reads:”105 Years Of Volunteer Fire Brigade 1882-1987″.