DDR Athletic Honorings

[speedytop]

I want to show here athletic honorings and documents in no particular order.

Everyone can add his medals and documents.

Nationales Olympisches Komitee der DDR (NOK), Ehrenplakette (badge of honor) "mens fervida in corpore lacertoso" (an overflowing spirit in a muscular body).

This might probably be a specimen with the number and the engraving on the reverse:

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Sports badges in cloth: bronze, silver and gold for colour comparison:

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Medal "Sportfest der Waffenbrüderschaft" > sports meeting of brotherhood of arms:

Unfortunately no date, maybe in the 80s:

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Document for a national sports event 1969, participation in the exhibition "Art and Sport":

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Medal for a German (DDR) record in the field of athletics, in original in the matching case:

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Different sports badges with the flag:

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DDR championships in the early 50s, 3rd place in gymnastics:

Uwe

[Ulsterman]

You know, I know almost nothing about these sport badges, except they were obviously a HUGE example of the Marxist notion that citizenship was participatory, rather than decision-making.

Is there a book on these badges at all?

What were the requirements for the DDR sports badges? Did Russians,Ethiopians, Hungarians, Czechs, Bulgarians and Poles get them too?

Any examples to British fellow travelers perchance?

[speedytop]

Hi Ulsterman,

"Any examples to British fellow travelers perchance?"

You mean the official "Sportabzeichen (Sportleistungsabzeichen) der DDR"?

I don't think so!

You must first have knowledge about different DDR organizations like FDJ, FDGB or the "Nationale Front".

Please try it with a young British woman .

"Is there a book on these badges at all?"

Yes: Frank Bartel, DDR Spezialkatalog Band VI, Auszeichnungen der Sportorganisationen der DDR, 3. Auflage 2007

300 pages with more than 2,300 numbers, many of them with subgroups.

But the book don't include all sports awards of the DDR!

The pieces from Post 1, 2, 5 and 6 are included, but not the other medal and not the documents.

"What were the requirements for the DDR sports badges?"

Very difficult to explain (in English).

Here is a scan from an early "Sportleistungabzeichen" in 1951, level II (from 3 levels) for men:

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Later they used a "Rechenstab" (sliderule) for the difficult point system.

One side for men, the other side for women:

Uwe

[Gordon Craig]

Uwe,

Interesting items. I've seen the books before but not the slide rule. Thanks for posting these things.

Regards,

Gordon

[Ulsterman]

Here is a DDR Technische Unteroffiziersschule ASG Prora II medal: "For socialist body-culture". It's actually quite larger and worn as a neck medal.

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Yes, there are many hundreds of these medals, not listed in the book from Bartel!

The medal is from the time period 1969 to 1979, because it is the TUS Prora (TUS > Technische Unteroffizierschule „Erich Habersaath“).

Since 1979 it is named MTS Prora (MTS > Militärtechnische Schule „Erich Habersaath“)

Uwe

[Ulsterman]

Cool!

Is it still possible to buy the old black/red/yellow ribbons at all?

[speedytop]

You mean such a ribbon?

http://www.ebay.de/i...=item19c93d7a16

Uwe

[Ulsterman]

I do!! Thanks.

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Danke

[speedytop]

There are so many different Medals and some different ribbon colours.

ASV (Armee-Sportverein) championships SO (Sportorganisation) Neubrandenburg:

Kreis-Spartakiade for children and youth 1973

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championships ASG (Armee-Sportgemeinschaften)

DDR championships youth 1975

Uwe

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The first sports badge 1951, minis grade I, II and III:

Edited July 18, 2012 by speedytop

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I found the medal from Post 12 in Gold, the ribbon is in "normal" black-red-gold:

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DDR championship 1951 in skittles, women, 3rd place

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DDR championship 1952, Pentathlon women, German (DDR) champion, Erika Junghanns

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Honoring document to the ASV (Armeesportvereinigung Vorwärts), sports organization "Landstreitkräfte".

Original signature Generaloberst Keßler

Edited May 9, 2012 by speedytop

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A nice black and white and gold pennant.

Black side: Company of the excellent quality.

White side: Exemplary sports community.

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Medal "For meritorious service" in the DSMF (Deutscher Sportverband Moderner Fünfkampf), Biathlon