Kaiser Wilhelm Badge ?

[christerd]

Hi all, anyone know anything about this badge ?

Very well made and I suppose it have something to do with Wilhelm ?

Best regards from sweden

Christer

[speedytop]

Hi Christer,

no, not Wilhelm, but Friedrich Ludwig

It is a participants badge or a honoring badge of a county gymnastics event in 1897 in Reichenberg in Bohemia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberec

The four F's in the center are from the "Deutscher Turnerbund":

http://de.wikipedia....cher_Turnerbund

The illustrated man is Friedrich Ludwig Jahn:

http://en.wikipedia....ich_Ludwig_Jahn

Uwe

[Naxos]

like Uwe said: its the father of gymnastics, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (Frisch - Fromm - Fröhlich - Frei)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Ludwig_Jahn

Edited March 7, 2010 by Naxos

[christerd]

like Uwe said: its the father of gymnastics, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (Frisch - Fromm - Fröhlich - Frei)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Ludwig_Jahn

Aha ! 1000 Thanks Uwe and Naxos

Christer

Edited March 7, 2010 by christerd