(23.21)
Price: 30.00 euro
Size box: 18cm./7inch.
Size plate: 15cm./5.9inch.
Weight: 326gr./11.4oz.
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Copper showplate in it’s original box. In very good condition. The text on the plate reads:”National People’s Army”.
(2.21)
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 14×8.5cm./5.2×3.3inch.
Weight: 100gr./3.5oz.
Year: 1977
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Wallpiece made in the DDR. This plate was arwarded to a company in 1977. VEB is “Volkseigener Betrieb” wich means Publicly Owned Enterprise. Many company had the title VEB. The text on the plate reads:” VEB Altentreptow (cityname). Labor banner. On the occasion of the award of our company with the medal Labor Banner”.
(5.21)
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 38.5x23cm./7.2×6.6inch.
Weight: 410gr./14.6oz.
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Wallpiece made in the DDR, from the “Schutzpolizei” wich means:”Police Force”. On the copper plate there is the police emblem and the TV tower from Berlin.
(15.21)
Price: 30.00 euro
Size: 38.5x23cm./15.1x9inch.
Weight: 978gr./34.4oz.
Year: 1985
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Wallpiece made in the DDR, 1985. Made of wood with a copper plate. The text on the plate reads:”40 Years Of Secure Peace. 8-5-1985. District Management of the SED Leuna”.
The SED (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.
Leuna was an industrial area in the DDR.
(23.21)
Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 21.5cm./8.4inch.
Weight: 481gr./16.9oz.
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Wallpiece made in the DDR, made of copper. The text on the plate reads:”On the occasion of the 10 annual day of the NVA from the Genenral Anton-Saefkow barracks”.
(15.21)
Price: 25.00 euro
Size: 39x23cm./15.3x9inch.
Weight: 1111gr./39.1oz.
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Wallpiece made in the DDR during the cold war era.
(23.21)
Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 29x22cm./11.4×8.6inch.
Weight: 750gr./26.4oz.
Year: 1983
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Wallpiece from the DDR from the school of officers. The text on the piece reads:”20 Years Officer School of the ground forces “Ernst Thalmann” section 1963-1983″.
(23.21)
Price: 45.00 euro
Size: 30x19cm./11.8×7.4inch.
Weight: 1250gr./44oz.
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Wallpiece from the DDR, Border Troops. The text on the plate reads:”For remembering the bordertroops of the DDR, Rudolcity”. Beautiful piece with watchtower.
(35.21)
Price: 45 euro
Size: 42x28cm./16.5x11inch.
Weight: 3185gr./112oz.
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Wallpiece with the image of Ernst Thalmann. The base is wood and Thalmann’s head is made of bronze or copper. Very heavy. The text on the plate reads:”Presented by VEB Shaft Construction Nordhausen”. VEB is “Volkseigener Betrieb” wich means Publicly Owned Enterprise. Many company had the title VEB. In this case it was a construction company.
Ernst Thalmann (1886-1944) was a German communist politician. He was leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933. A committed Stalinist, Thalmann played a major role in the political instability of the Weimar Republic in its final years, when the KPD explicitly sought the overthrow of the liberal democracy of the republic. Under his leadership the KPD became intimately associated with the government of the Soviet Union and the policies of Joseph Stalin, and from 1928 the party was largely controlled and funded by Stalin’s government.
The KPD under Thalmann’s leadership regarded the Social Democratic Party (SPD) as Social fascists. Thalmann viewed the Nazi Party as a lesser evil than the social democrats, and in 1931 his party cooperated with the Nazis in an attempt to bring down the social democrat state government. Thalmann believed that a Nazi dictatorship would fail due to flawed economic policies and lead to a revolutionary situation in which the communist party gained power.
Thalmann was also leader of the paramilitary Roter Frontkampferbund, which was banned as extremist by the governing social democrats in 1929, and in 1932 he established Antifaschistische Aktion or Antifa, which concentrated its attacks on the social democrats. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years; Stalin did not seek his release when he entered into the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Germany, and Thalmann’s party rival Walter Ulbricht ignored requests to plead on his behalf. Many of Thalmann’s closest associates who had emigrated to the Soviet Union were executed during the Great Purge of the 1930s. Thalmann was shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler’s personal orders in 1944.
In the First World War he was posted to the artillery on the western front, where he stayed till the end of the war, during the course of which he was wounded twice. He said that he fought in the following battles: Battle of Champagne (1915–1916), Battle of the Somme (1916), Second battle of the Aisne, Battle of Soissons, Battle of Cambrai (1917) and Battle of Arras (1917).
(35.21)
Price: 45 euro
Size: 43x28cm./16.9x11inch.
Weight: 2259gr./79.6oz.
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Wallpiece with the image of Karl Marx. Very heavy. The base is made of wood and Karl’s head is made of aluminiun. In good condition. 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.
(85.21)
(R.85.21)
Price: 110.50 euro
Size: 21.5×16.5cm./8.4×6.4inch.
Weight: 573gr./20.2oz.
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Scene of tin figures with Lenin giving a speech at top of the armoured car during at Finland railway station in St. Petersburg (Leningrad). The text on the back of the frame reads:”Arrival At The Finnish Railway Station”.
A 3 dimensional painting with a very high finish. The figures are made of zinc and painted so beautifully, presumably with a 3-hair brush. If you look closely you can see the craftsmanship.
On the back, presumably after the departure of the Russians, the stamp was taped, which later fell off. It says here; Cultural-historical Zinnfiguren (Cultural and historical tin figures) It was made for or by the Pos Erich Weinert Enzianschule. Frame is made of oak
Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin had been living in exile in Switzerland during the First World War. After the February Revolution he was permitted by the German authorities to travel via sealed train across German territory, take a ferry to Helsinki and thence a train to Petrograd, as Saint Petersburg was then known. Arriving at the city’s Finland Station he was met by a crowd of Bolshevik sympathisers and climbed onto the turret of an armoured car.
He rode the car to the Bolshevik headquarters at the Kshesinskaya Palace and delivered a speech in favour of Bolshevism and denouncing the moderate Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionary Party. After the Russian Civil War, Lenin led the communist Soviet Union, but died of a stroke on 21 January 1924.
(12.5.21)
(R.12.5.20)
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 18.8cm./7.4inch.
Weight: 500gr./17.6oz.
Wall sign DDR. Made oftThick and heavy copper. The text along the edge reads:”Berlin Capital of the DDR, Downtown”. The iconic transmission tower can be seen in the center. Equipped with an eye on the back to hang it up.
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 20cm./7.8inch.
Weight: 123gr./4.5oz.
Wallpiece, wooden plate with in the center the Coat of Arms of the DDR. On the back there is a device to hang it on a wall.
Price: 6.00 euro
Size: 15cm./5.9inch.
Weight: 77gr./3oz.
Wallpiece wooden plate with the Coat of Arms of the (former DDR) city of Finsterwalde with 16.000 inhabitants. Finsterwalde is know for the Soviet Militairy cementary with 230 Soviet soldiers who died at the end of WWII.
WWII Soviet soldiers cementary
Coat of Arms of Finsterwalde
Location of Finsterwalde
(4.20)
Price: 8.00 euro
Size: 31x25cm./12×9.8inch.
Cardboard Sign from the FDGB organisation. On the back there is a hanging device. Such signs were used in parades and gatherings.
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.
(4.20)
Price: 8.00 euro
Size: 36.5×29.5cm./14.3×11.6inch.
Cardboard SED logo. Used for parades, gatherings and meetings. Hanging mechanism still on the back.
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
SED Flag
(4.20)
Price: 8.00 euro
Size: 36x27cm./14.1×10.6inch.
Cardboard sign with the FDJ logo. These signs were used in parades or to hang on a wall when a FDJ meeting happend.
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.
FDJ Youth.
FDJ with DDR flags in parade
FDJ Flag
(8.21)
(4.20)
Price: 8.00 euro
Size: 30.5×27.5cm./12×10.8inch.
Big cardboard emblem of the FDJ. A freindship organisation with the Soviet Union.
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 organization.
(4.20)
Price: 8.00 euro
Size: 27.5cm./10.8inch.
Original cardboard piece with the coat of arms of the DDR printed on it. Mayby used in parades or for government buildings or schools, company’s and such.
(4.20)
Price: 8.00 euro
Size: 29cm./11.4inch.
Coat of Arms of the DDR pressed into cardboard. Big and in good condition. On the back there is a hanging mechanism so once it was on a wall.
(25.20)
(15.20)
Price: 25.00 euro
Size: 39x23cm./15.3×9.05inch.
Metal plate on wood with the text:”Motor Vehicle Service Border Patrol German Democrat republic”. In perfect condition.
(15.20)
Price:35.00 euro
Size box: 29cm./11.4inch.
Size plate: 27.5cm/10.8inch.
Weight: 760gr./26.8oz.
Copper DDR plate to commemorate Soviet and DDR friendship. The plate says: “Entered in the honorary book of the central board of the society for German Soviet friendship“
(14.2019)
Price: 20.00
Size: 8.5×7.00cm/3.15×2.76inch.
Weight: 124gr./4.3oz.
This is a wallpiece from the DDR tank division. Beautiful en in very good shape.
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