DDR
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(55.20)
Price: 95.00 euro
Size box: 36.5cm./14.3inch.
Size bowl: 30cm./11.8inch.
Unussual big bowl from the DDR. It is made out of glass and heavy. The bowl says:”Bordertroops Of The German Democratic Republic.” and in the center:”Border Command Center”.
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.
(15.20)
Price:35.00 euro
Size box: 29cm./11.4inch.
Size plate: 27.5cm/10.8inch.
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“
Price: 10.00 euro
This is the silver medal for 20 years of service as a volunteer to the civil defense of the DDR. The medal says:”Medal of service, civil defense”. They started with this medal in 1977 until 1985. After 1985 the medal was slightly different. This medal is from 1977-1985.
There were 3 types of medals:
Bronze: 10 years of service
Silver: 20 years of service
Gold: 30 years of service
The Bronze, Silver and Gold edition.
(7.5.20) (7.5.20)
Price: 7.50 euro
This is the bronze medal for 10 years of service as a volunteer to the civil defense of the DDR. The medal says:”Medal of service, civil defense”. These medals were made from 1977-1985. After 1985 the medal was slightly different. This medal is from after 1985.
There were 3 types of medals:
Bronze: 10 years of service
Silver: 20 years of service
Gold: 30 years of service
All medals of volunteer if civil defense medals.
Price: 5,00 euro
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 that workers and farmers make”.
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
All types of serving in the peoples army medals.
Price: 2.50 euro
The collective of socialist work, was a collective award in the DDR. They started with this award in 1960 and recognized high production successes, special successes in socialist community work and above all in the socialist competition.
The front of the medal says:”The Collective Of Socialistic Work” and the back of the medal says:”Learn And Live Socialistic Work”.
It was about fulfilling political, cultural and professional demands as well as adhering to socialist morals and ethics.
By 1989 4.8 million people had recieved the award.
(5.20)
Price: 5.00 euro
DDR medal, bronze. The medal was awarded in three classes for faithful fulfillment of duties and recognition of exemplary achievements in the ranks of the combat groups of the DDR.
All medals of merit.
(11.19) (10.20(x14))
Price: 10.00 euro
This is a medal for 20 years of service in the Combat Group Of The Working Class. There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (one stripe ribbon)
Silver: 10 years of service (two stripe ribbon)
Gold: 15 years of service (three stripe ribbon)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold dot ribbon)
The Combat Group Of The Working Class was a paramilitairy organization from 1953-1989 known as KDA (kampfgruppen Der Arbeiterklasse), to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. In it’s peak it contained 211.000 people in 1980.
All medals of the KDA
KDA troops in parade
KDA troops and armoured vehicles.
Flag of the KDA
(12.5.19)
Price: 12.50 euro
The Medal for Exemplary Border Service was a national award issued in the DDR. It was established in 1954. The first presentation ceremony took place on 1 July 1954, to members of the German Border Police.
The medal was awarded to members of the Border Troops of the DDR as well as civilians for exemplary performance and personal commitment in securing the state border of the DDR. It recognized outstanding contributions in enhancing the combat readiness and training in the performance of border guard tasks. It could be awarded more than one time.
It could also be presented immediately after the accomplished performance, such as the prevention of a break through at the border, even if it resulted in death of the escapee. The medal was also presented to members of the Stasi.
There are 3 types of this medal. The first type was awarded from 1954 to 1955 and had stalks of wheat which terminate with the inscription DDR, and the text:”“Für Vorbildlichen Grenzdienst” (For Exemplary Border Service). On the backside there was a serial number. The 2nd. type was the same but with no serial number on the backside (1955-1956).
The third type of this medal was worn from 1956 to 1990. The design was changed, on the medal is a border guard holding binoculars in his hands and a machine gun slung across his chest. The reverse of the medal displays the Coat of Arms of the DDR. This version of the medal is also not numbered on the reverse.
First type
Price: 12.50 euro
The Distinguished Service Medal of the National People’s Army, or “Medal of Merit of the National People’s Army”.
Established in 1956 in three levels, Gold, Silver and Bronze. It was awarded for outstanding merit and personal readiness in support of the increase of combat capability and combat readiness of the National People’s Army in the DDR. The medal was last awarded in 1990.
The medal was designed by artist Paul Gensch. On the front are profiles of the busts of a 1950s era sailor, airman, and soldier representing the nation’s Land, Air, and Naval forces, under which is spelled out “DDR”. On each side of this are three oak leaves with an acorn. The words FÜR HERVORRAGENDE VERDIENSTE (FOR OUTSTANDING MERIT) form the upper part of the medal, the lower part contain the words NATIONALE VOLKSARMEE (NATIONAL PEOPLE’S ARMY).
On the reverse side are the state coat of arms of East Germany, surrounded with the words FÜR DEN SCHUTZ DER ARBEITER UND BAUERN MACHT (FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE WORKERS AND FARMERS POWER) surrounded by two branches of laurel.
The Bronze, Silver and Gold edition.
Price: 10.00 euro
The Distinguished Service Medal of the National People’s Army, or “Medal of Merit of the National People’s Army”.
Established in 1956 in three levels, Gold, Silver and Bronze. It was awarded for outstanding merit and personal readiness in support of the increase of combat capability and combat readiness of the National People’s Army in the DDR. The medal was last awarded in 1990.
The medal was designed by artist Paul Gensch. On the front are profiles of the busts of a 1950s era sailor, airman, and soldier representing the nation’s Land, Air, and Naval forces, under which is spelled out “DDR”. On each side of this are three oak leaves with an acorn. The words FÜR HERVORRAGENDE VERDIENSTE (FOR OUTSTANDING MERIT) form the upper part of the medal, the lower part contain the words NATIONALE VOLKSARMEE (NATIONAL PEOPLE’S ARMY).
On the reverse side are the state coat of arms of East Germany, surrounded with the words FÜR DEN SCHUTZ DER ARBEITER UND BAUERN MACHT (FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE WORKERS AND FARMERS POWER) surrounded by two branches of laurel.
The Bronze, Silver and Gold edition.
Price: 7.50 euro
The Distinguished Service Medal of the National People’s Army, or “Medal of Merit of the National People’s Army”.
Established in 1956 in three levels, Gold, Silver and Bronze. It was awarded for outstanding merit and personal readiness in support of the increase of combat capability and combat readiness of the National People’s Army in the DDR. The medal was last awarded in 1990.
The medal was designed by artist Paul Gensch. On the front are profiles of the busts of a 1950s era sailor, airman, and soldier representing the nation’s Land, Air, and Naval forces, under which is spelled out “DDR”. On each side of this are three oak leaves with an acorn. The words FÜR HERVORRAGENDE VERDIENSTE (FOR OUTSTANDING MERIT) form the upper part of the medal, the lower part contain the words NATIONALE VOLKSARMEE (NATIONAL PEOPLE’S ARMY).
On the reverse side are the state coat of arms of East Germany, surrounded with the words FÜR DEN SCHUTZ DER ARBEITER UND BAUERN MACHT (FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE WORKERS AND FARMERS POWER) surrounded by two branches of laurel.
The Bronze, Silver and Gold edition.
(350.19)
Price: 650.00 euro
Size: 206x110cm./81.1×43.3inch.
Very big DDR carpet with portraits of Lenin, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Made in sandcolored background and red flags on the sides, The brown main border is decorated with the state coat of arms of the DDR, the red star and hammer and sickle. At the top there are loops for wall mounting.
Most of the DDR carpets was made in the DDR but some were made in Turkey and shipped to the DDR. Like this one. This unusually big carpet was probably hung in government buildings.
The carpet is in perfect condition with no damages and was bought in the 70’s and taken to the Netherlands. And afer 40 years now for sale.
It is been known that another version of this carpet the heads are looking the other way (left). This carpet the heads are looking right and is more rarer.
The carpet hanging in the Statsi museum in Berlin.
Price: 7.50 euro
This is the bronze medal for 5 years of service in the national’s people’s army of the DDR. They started with this type of medal in 1956 and stopped in 1990.
Faithful Service Medals with a similar design were issued by Border Guards (Grenztruppen) and Civil Defense (Zivilverteidigung).
There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (no stripe)
Silver: 10 years of service (white stripe)
Gold: 15 years of service (yellow stripe)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold stripe and Roman numerals XX)
All medals of People Army Service.
Price: 10.00 euro
This is the silver medal for 10 years of service in the national’s people’s army of the DDR. They started with this type of medal in 1956 and stopped in 1990.
Faithful Service Medals with a similar design were issued by Border Guards (Grenztruppen) and Civil Defense (Zivilverteidigung).
There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (no stripe)
Silver: 10 years of service (white stripe)
Gold: 15 years of service (yellow stripe)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold stripe and Roman numerals XX)
All medals of People Army Service.
(15.19)
Price: 15.00 euro
This is the gold medal for 20 years of service in the national’s people’s army of the DDR. They started with this type of medal in 1956 and stopped in 1990.
Faithful Service Medals with a similar design were issued by Border Guards (Grenztruppen) and Civil Defense (Zivilverteidigung).
There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (no stripe)
Silver: 10 years of service (white stripe)
Gold: 15 years of service (yellow stripe)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold stripe and Roman numerals XX)
All medals of People Army Service.
Price: 12.50 euro
This is the gold medal for 15 years of service in the national’s people’s army of the DDR. They started with this type of medal in 1956 and stopped in 1990.
Faithful Service Medals with a similar design were issued by Border Guards (Grenztruppen) and Civil Defense (Zivilverteidigung).
There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (no stripe)
Silver: 10 years of service (white stripe)
Gold: 15 years of service (yellow stripe)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold stripe and Roman numerals XX)
All medals of People Army Service.
(50.19)
Price: 65.00 euro
These works of Stalin are his thoughts and political ideas written down based on the works of Karl Marx and his friend Lenin (Marxism, Lenism) in order to mobilise the Russian people for his political program.
In the DDR the communistic ruling party, the SED, wanted these works to be translated and published for the German people in 1950. Resulting in the 13 editions of the Stalin Werke. Originally there were 15 parts but after the death of Stalin an because of the rejected Stalin ideology by Khrushchev the 14th. and 15th. edition of the works were put on hold. These last 2 books were eventually published in1976.
(15.19)
Price: 25.00 euro
Beautiful medal from the DDR. It was for the FDJ (Freie Deutsche Jugend, Free German Youth) organisation. The medal is from 1952 and has serial number 00113. The medal says:”Fur hervorragende Leistungen im Fünfjahrplan” wich means “For Excellence In The Five Year Plan”.
They started with these type of medals in 1952 end it ended it 1959 and was givin to individuals. The First Five Year Plan (1951–55) introduced centralized state planning; it stressed high production quotas for heavy industry and increased labor productivity. The pressures of the plan caused an exodus of DDR citizens to West Germany.
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.
(450.20)
(175.19)
Price: 450.00 euro
Size: 134x86cm./52.7×33.8inch.
Beautiful in perfect condition carpet from the DDR. From 1973.
The Combat Group Of The Working Class was a paramilitairy organization from 1953-1989 known as KDA (kampfgruppen Der Arbeiterklasse), to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. In it’s peak it contained 211.000 people in 1980.
The Combat Groups of the Working Class was formed on 1953, in response to the Uprising of 1953 in the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) which had occurred three months earlier, and was violently suppressed by the Volkspolizei. The KDA was intended to mirror the People’s Militias of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia which played a very important part in the consolidation of party’s power in Czechoslovakia in 1948.
Membership was mainly drawn from workers from state enterprises.
The KDA carpet in a museum
KDA flag
(7.19)
Price: 7.00 euro
This is a medal for 15 years of service in the Combat Group Of The Working Class. There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (one stripe ribbon)
Silver: 10 years of service (two stripe ribbon)
Gold: 15 years of service (three stripe ribbon)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold dot ribbon)
The Combat Group Of The Working Class was a paramilitairy organization from 1953-1989 known as KDA (kampfgruppen Der Arbeiterklasse), to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. In it’s peak it contained 211.000 people in 1980.
All medals of the KDA
KDA troops in parade
KDA troops and armoured vehicles.
Flag of the KDA
(175.19)
Price: 350.00 euro
Size: 151x93cm./59.4×36.6inch.
Very rare FDJ DDR carpet. In perfect condition. The carpet says:”FDJ Commitment”. And DDR-30. Probably 30 years. The FDJ was founded in 1946 and DDR in 1949 so this carpet is from 1976 or 1979. The 2 faces on the upper left are most likely Ernst Thalmann and Wilhelm Pieck.
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 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
DDR and USSR flags in parade
FDJ carrying North Korean flags
(175.19)
Price: 450.00 euro
Size: 151x93cm./59.4×36.6inch.
Very rare DDR carpet with Ernst Thalmann on it. The carpet is in perfect condition. Totally original. Very well made.
Ernst Thalmann (1886-1944) was a German communist politician. He was leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933. A committed Stalinist, Thalmann played a major role in the political instability of the Weimar Republic in its final years, when the KPD explicitly sought the overthrow of the liberal democracy of the republic. Under his leadership the KPD became intimately associated with the government of the Soviet Union and the policies of Joseph Stalin, and from 1928 the party was largely controlled and funded by Stalin’s government.
The KPD under Thalmann’s leadership regarded the Social Democratic Party (SPD) as Social fascists. Thalmann viewed the Nazi Party as a lesser evil than the social democrats, and in 1931 his party cooperated with the Nazis in an attempt to bring down the social democrat state government. Thalmann believed that a Nazi dictatorship would fail due to flawed economic policies and lead to a revolutionary situation in which the communist party gained power.
Thalmann was also leader of the paramilitary Roter Frontkampferbund, which was banned as extremist by the governing social democrats in 1929, and in 1932 he established Antifaschistische Aktion or Antifa, which concentrated its attacks on the social democrats. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years; Stalin did not seek his release when he entered into the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Germany, and Thalmann’s party rival Walter Ulbricht ignored requests to plead on his behalf. Many of Thalmann’s closest associates who had emigrated to the Soviet Union were executed during the Great Purge of the 1930s. Thalmann was shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler’s personal orders in 1944.
In the First World War he was posted to the artillery on the western front, where he stayed till the end of the war, during the course of which he was wounded twice. He said that he fought in the following battles: Battle of Champagne (1915–1916), Battle of the Somme (1916), Second battle of the Aisne, Battle of Soissons, Battle of Cambrai (1917) (1917) and Battle of Arras (1917).
Ernst Thalmann at a rally
Ernst Thalmann monument in Berlin
Ernst Thalmann
Ernst Thalmann speeching.
In 1972 Fidel Castro gave one of Cuba’s 4000 island to the DDR naming it Ernst Thalmann Island.
(5.19)
Price: 5.00 euro
This is a medal for 5 years of service in the Combat Group Of The Working Class. There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (one stripe ribbon)
Silver: 10 years of service (two stripe ribbon)
Gold: 15 years of service (three stripe ribbon)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold dot ribbon)
The Combat Group Of The Working Class was a paramilitairy organization from 1953-1989 known as KDA (kampfgruppen Der Arbeiterklasse), to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. In it’s peak it contained 211.000 people in 1980.
All medals of the KDA
KDA troops in parade
KDA troops and armoured vehicles.
Flag of the KDA
(7.22.19 (8$))
Price: 6.00 euro
This is a medal for 10 years of service in the Combat Group Of The Working Class. There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (one stripe ribbon)
Silver: 10 years of service (two stripe ribbon)
Gold: 15 years of service (three stripe ribbon)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold dot ribbon)
The Combat Group Of The Working Class was a paramilitairy organization from 1953-1989 known as KDA (kampfgruppen Der Arbeiterklasse), to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. In it’s peak it contained 211.000 people in 1980.
All medals of the KDA
KDA troops in parade
KDA troops and armoured vehicles.
Flag of the KDA
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin says:”10 Years DDR”. The DDR existed from 1949 so this pin is from 1959. An old pin.
The DDR was a state that existed from 1949 to 1990, when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state, it described itself as a socialist workers and peasants’ state.
After WWII the Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it; as a result, West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the DDR.
Soviet forces remained in the country throughout the Cold War. Until 1989. The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the Wall was commenced by the DDR on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area (later known as the “death strip”) that contained anti-vehicle trenches, “fakir beds” and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the “will of the people” in building a socialist state in East Germany.
Flag of DDR
Erich Honecker ruled the DDR from 1976 until 1990
The Berlin wall
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin for “Gesellshaft Fur Sport Und Technik”, wich means “Sport and Technology Association”.
The Sport and Technology Association was established in 1952 and ended in 1990. In 1988 it had 600.000 members. It was one of the East German “Mass Orgganizationss”. It was established to structure the free time of young people interested in sports and technology in group activities.
Each member was asked to bring in their technological equipment such as, motorcycles, aircraft, radios, and to pratice sports and participate in competitions such as motorraces and shooting. The association worked closely with the National People’s Army (NVA) in order to give children a pre militairy and discipline training.
Coat of Arms of the GST organisation featuring a rifle, propellor and anchor symbols.
Youth of the GST with model planes.
Youth of the GST with motorcycles.
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The GST organisation during a parade.
(350.20)
(225.19)
Price: 350.00 euro
Karl Marx Das kapital.
Band I 1903 Fifth Pressing
Band II 1893 2nd. Pressing
Band III-I 1894 1st. Pressing
Band III-II 1894 1st. Pressing
The cover on some of the books have got some damage/are used as you can see on the pictures. The pages inside the books are good and well preserved.
Das Kapital, also called Capital. A Critique of Political Economy (in German: Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie) was first published in 1867 by Karl Marx.
Capital, Volume I (1867) was published in Marx’s lifetime, but he died in 1883 before completing the manuscripts for Capital, Volume II (1885) and Capital, Volume III (1894) which friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels edited and published as the work of Marx. The first translated publication of Das Kapital was in Imperial Russia in March 1872. It was the first foreign publication and the English edition appeared in 1887. Despite Tsarist censorship proscribing “the harmful doctrines of socialism and communism”, the Russian censors considered Das Kapital as a “strictly scientific work” of political economy, the content of which did not apply to monarchic Russia, where “capitalist exploitation” had never occurred and was officially dismissed, given “that very few people in Russia will read it, and even fewer will understand it”. Nonetheless, Marx acknowledged that Russia was the country where Das Kapital “was read and valued more than anywhere”. For instance, the Russian edition was the fastest selling as 3,000 copies were sold in one year while the German edition took five years to sell 1,000, therefore the Russian translation sold fifteen times faster than the German original.
Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.
Price: 1.50 euro
Friendship pin between the DDR city of Mansfeld and the Ukrainian city of Kryvy Rih.
Price: 1.50 euro
Friendship pin between the DDR city of Mansfeld and the Ukrainian city of Kryvy Rih.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin says “Friendship” in the Russian and German language. This pin is to commemorate the friendship between the two nations.
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is showing the enormous monument in Treptower park in Berlin. Its prominent feature is the Soviet War Memorial built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It was opened four years after the war ended, on May 8, 1949.
(1.5.19)
Price: 1.50 euro
Ukraine pin about the friendship between the city of Kryvyi in the Ukraine and the city of Mansfeld in the DDR.
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″.
(14.2019)
Price: 20.00
Size: 8,5×7.00cm/3.15×2.76inch.
This is a wallpiece from the DDR tank division. Beautiful en in very good shape.
Price: 1.50 euro.
Information:
Pin about the Karlx Marx University in Leipzig, DDR.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and a revolutionary socialist. He is one of the foundators of socialism and communism. His most important and known work is The Communist Manifest and Das Kapital. The manifest was put together in collaboration with his friend and supporter Friedrich Engels. Even after Karl Marx’s death, Engels continued to publish works of Karl Marx.
Karl Marx’s ideas would become known as Marxism. In brief, Marxism stands for more equality between rich and poor people. He stated that the working class should rebel to make human rights equal.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about Ernst Thalmann.
Ernst Thalmann (1886-1944) was a German communist politician. He was leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933. A committed Stalinist, Thalmann played a major role in the political instability of the Weimar Republic in its final years, when the KPD explicitly sought the overthrow of the liberal democracy of the republic. Under his leadership the KPD became intimately associated with the government of the Soviet Union and the policies of Joseph Stalin, and from 1928 the party was largely controlled and funded by Stalin’s government.
The KPD under Thalmann’s leadership regarded the Social Democratic Party (SPD) as Social fascists. Thalmann viewed the Nazi Party as a lesser evil than the social democrats, and in 1931 his party cooperated with the Nazis in an attempt to bring down the social democrat state government. Thalmann believed that a Nazi dictatorship would fail due to flawed economic policies and lead to a revolutionary situation in which the communist party gained power.
Thalmann was also leader of the paramilitary Roter Frontkampferbund, which was banned as extremist by the governing social democrats in 1929, and in 1932 he established Antifaschistische Aktion or Antifa, which concentrated its attacks on the social democrats. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years; Stalin did not seek his release when he entered into the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Germany, and Thalmann’s party rival Walter Ulbricht ignored requests to plead on his behalf. Many of Thalmann’s closest associates who had emigrated to the Soviet Union were executed during the Great Purge of the 1930s. Thalmann was shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler’s personal orders in 1944.
In the First World War he was posted to the artillery on the western front, where he stayed till the end of the war, during the course of which he was wounded twice. He said that he fought in the following battles: Battle of Champagne (1915–1916), Battle of the Somme (1916), Second battle of the Aisne, Battle of Soissons, Battle of Cambrai (1917) (1917) and Battle of Arras (1917).
Price: 1.50 euro
Information:
This pin is the (former) DDR flag. DDR means Deutsche Demokratische Republiek (German Democratic Republic). Also known as East Germany.
Germany was divided up in 2 states after WWII. East Germany was liberated from the Nazi’s by Russian troops and became a part of the Soviet Union in 1949. West Germany was liberated by the western Allies.
All business company’s were owned by the state. Meaning that the state ruled production and prices. Shortages and bad products resulted in people leaving the DDR to her western counterpart.
This and as a result of the cold war, a wall was built in order to prevent people to leave the country. Known as The Wall. In 1990 the DDR and the wall collapsed and West and East Germany reunited.
Price: 125,00 euro.
Size: 115×91 cm. / 45×36 inch.
Nice big carpet/tapestry showing the head of Lenin. This carpet was made in the DDR and the previous owner took it from a Statsi building and took this carpet under his arm on the airplane. Beautiful powerful image of Lenin. Very cool piece for bars or alternative places.
Usually they attached a piece of wood along side the top of the carpet, and nailed it down in order to hang this on the walls. So on the top of the carpet there are a few little pinholes wich is typical for these types of tapestry’s. Also a little pinhole is in the head of Lenin.
The carpet is not dirty but probably after cleaning the colours will be more intense.
This carpet comes also without the threads below the carpet. With almost the same size (127×86 cm.)
Price: 45,00 euro
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Size: 21x5cm. / 8.2×1.9 inch.
Beautiful complete 7 pin set honouring 800 years Karl Marx City in the former DDR. In bakolite box with nice fancy interiour.
Originally this town was called Chemnitz and heavily bombarderd in WWII. From 1953-1990 it was called Karl Marx Stadt. After 1990 it was called Chemnitz again.
Compleet set of 7 pins, all in good condition. Great showpiece and collectors item. A nice piece straight from 1965.
In this box a extra pin is added. This is a wrong pin belonging to a different pin set.
