Price: 2.00 euro
Army uniform epaulet from the DDR.
Various DDR
Price: 2.00 euro
Army uniform epaulet from the DDR.
Price: 15.00 euro
Epaulettes from the DDR from somebody in the army with the rank of Major.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 67cm./26inch.
Silk retirement cloth from the NVA, the National People’s Army. The text says:”Serviced with Honour, NVA”. New state in it’s original bag. The text on the bag says:”Serviced with honour until the last day”.
The National People’s Army (NVA) was the armed forces of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1956 to 1990.
The NVA was formed in 1956 to succeed the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (Barracked People’s Police) and influenced by the Soviet Army, becoming one of the Warsaw Pact militaries opposing NATO during the Cold War. The majority of NATO officers rated the NVA the best military in the Warsaw Pact based on discipline, thoroughness of training, and the quality of officer leadership.
The NVA did not see significant combat but participated in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, deployed military advisors to communist governments in other countries, and manned the Berlin Wall where they were responsible for numerous deaths. The NVA was dissolved in 1990 and its facilities and equipment were handed over to the Bundeswehr (the armed forces of West Germany), which also absorbed most of its personnel below the rank of non-commissioned officer.
(7.50.20)
(6.32.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 67cm./26inch.
Silk cloth from the DDR borderpatrol. On the front there are different units and vehicles and the text:”For Memorial”. In the center there is the text:”Served With Honour At The Borderpatrol”. So this cloth was a present for border patrol guards who retired.
The Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic was the border guard of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1946 to 1990.
The Grenztruppen were the primary force guarding the Berlin Wall and the Inner German border. The force belonged to the Ministry of National Defence (MfNV) from 1961, and was a service branch of the National People’s Army until 1971 when it became directly subordinate to the MfNV. The Border Troops numbered approximately 47,000 personnel at its peak, consisting of volunteers and conscripts, the third largest Warsaw Pact border guard after Soviet Union and Poland.
The Grenztruppen main role was preventing Republikflucht, the illegal migration from the GDR, and were controversially responsible for many deaths at the Berlin Wall. At least 29 border guards were killed in the line of duty, and many faced criminal charges after German Reunification.
(10.20) (10.20)
(4.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 18×11.5cm./7.08×4.5inch.
Red armband from the “Helfer Der Volkspolizei” meaning volunteer helper of the people’s police.
The FH was established by the East German government in 1952. Its function was to assist the Volkspolizei (“People’s Police”) in fighting crime and border violation and protecting public goods. The FH had the right to control traffic and were also called upon to take part in search and manhunt operations. Furthermore, there was intended to be an educational effect for the East Germans, because the FH volunteers were on patrol in residential areas and workplaces. The FH volunteers fulfilled their patrol missions in plain clothes, but were identifiable by their armband. The FH was disbanded a few days before German reunification in 1990.
Helper Volkspolizei in action.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 20x12cm./7.8×4.7inch.
Waving flag for parades. Made from paper and with a plastic stick. The waving flag containes the logo of the FDGB.
The Free German Trade Union Federation (German: Freier Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund or FDGB), was the sole national trade union centre of the DDR which existed from 1946 and 1990. As a mass organisation of the DDR, nominally representing all workers in the country, the FDGB was a constituent member of the National Front. The leaders of the FDGB were also senior members of the ruling Socialist Unity Party.
Officially, membership in the FDGB was voluntary, but unofficially it was hardly possible to develop a career without joining. In 1986, 98% of all workers and employees were organized in the FDGB, which had 9.6 million members. This meant that it was nominally one of the world’s largest trade unions.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 20x12cm./7.8×4.7inch.
Waving flag for parades. Made from paper and with a plastic stick. The waving flag containes the logo of Young Pioneers and the text says:”be prepared”.
The Ernst Thalmann Pioneer Organisation, consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers, was a youth organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14. They were named after Ernst Thälmann, the former leader of the Communist Party of Germany who was executed at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
The group was a subdivision of the Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ, Free German Youth), East Germany’s youth movement. It was founded in 1948 and broke apart in 1989 on German reunification. From the 1960s and 1970s, nearly all schoolchildren between ages 6 and 14 were organised into Young Pioneer or Thälmann Pioneer groups.
The pioneer group was loosely based on Scouting, but organised in such a way as to teach schoolchildren aged 6 – 14 socialist ideology and prepare them for the Freie Deutsche Jugend, the FDJ. Its organisation was similar to Scouting and other such organisations. Afternoons spent at the pioneer group mainly consisted of a mixture of adventure, myth-like socialist teaching and the upkeep of revolutionary traditions.
Propaganda poster Young Pioneers.
Young Pioneers uniform worn by boys and girls alike.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 20x12cm./7.8×4.7inch.
Waving flag for parades. Made from paper and with a plastic stick.
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.
Headquarters of the DSF
Flag of DSF.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 20x12cm./7.8×4.7inch.
Labour Day (or International Worker’s Day) is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement, socialists and anarchists.
Labour day was established in 1890 as an international protest day for demanding a 8 hour working day, labour rights and for keeping the peace.
1st. May parade
Labour Day parade
1st. of May parade
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 20x12cm./7.8×4.7inch.
Waving hand held paper flag wich was distributed amoung the population for waving at parades. made of paper and with plastic stick. The flag contains the logo of 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: 1.50 euro
Size: 20x12cm./7.8×4.7inch.
Waving hand held paper flag wich was distributed amoung the population for waving at parades. made of paper and with plastic stick. The flag contains the logo of the SED, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany was the governing Marxist–Leninist political party of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the country’s foundation in October 1949 until its dissolution after the Peaceful Revolution in 1989. The party was established in April 1946.
The GDR was a one-party state but other institutional popular front parties were permitted to exist in alliance with the SED, these parties being the Christian Democratic Union, the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Farmers’ Party, and the National Democratic Party. The SED made the teaching of Marxism-Leninism and the Russian language compulsory in schools. In the 1980s, the SED rejected the liberalisation policies of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, such as perestroika and glasnost, which would lead to the GDR’s isolation from the restructuring USSR and the party’s downfall in the autumn of 1989.
SED party congress in 1986
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 20x12cm./7.8×4.7inch.
Waving hand held paper flag wich was distributed amoung the population for waving at parades. made of paper and with plastic stick. This waving flag represents the flag of the DDR.
(2.5.20)
Price: 3.50 euro
Size: 13cm./5.1inch.
Cardboard sign from with the Coat of Arms of the DDR. On the back there is a hanging device.
Price: 7.50 euro.
Size: 31.5x22cm./12.4×8.6inch.
This is a DDR certificate map. All workers could earn certificates. You could keep them nicely in your own certificate map.
This certificate map is from a worker who worked at the VEB Rafena factory in the DDR. The Rafena factory as one of the two most television producing factory in the DDR. So they produced them in large quantaties. In 1967 they also started to produce computer technology. A few years after 1990 when Germany was reunited they went bankrupt.
Certificate 1: For 50 years of loyal membership of the workers union. (1962)
Certificate 2: For 15 years of loyal service to Rafena. (1962)
Certificate 3: For an improvement proposal on grip handles. (1957)
Certificate 4: For an improvement proposal for degree and length gauge for angle rails. (1959)
Certificate 5: For self teaching. (1963)
Certificate 6: For self teaching. (1963)
The Rafena television factory.
Price: 7,50 euro.
Size: 31.5x22cm./12.4×8.6inch.
This is a DDR certificate map. All workers could earn certificates. You could keep them nicely in your own certificate map.
Certificate 1 is a certificate wich says: “In recognition of outstanding work results
for excellent services” and it came with this medal:
Certificate 2 is a certificate that was brought out by the Collective Of Socialistic Labor and it says: “1st. member of the Collective. This is awarded the honorary title for outstanding achievements in the construction of socialism and in the consolidation and strengthening of the German democratic republic. 1973.”
Certificate 2 is a certificate awarde by the FDGB (Free German Trade Union Confederation). The FDGB was an East German organisation that existed between 1946 and 1990. The FDGB was the umbrella organization for about fifteen individual trade unions.
Officially, membership in the FDGB was voluntary, but unofficially it was hardly possible to develop a career without joining. In 1986, 98% of all workers and employees were organized in the FDGB, which had 9.6 million members. This meant that it was one of the world’s largest trade unions. In May 1990, shortly before the German reunion, the FDGB was dissolved.
The certificate says: “For loyal and deserving 25 years of membership in the unions.In recognition for work done in services of the working class. 15th. of June 1985″.
