Graduate Badge (MdI)
1. University of the German People's Police "Karl Liebknecht", Berlin
2. A civil university or college
3. OHS of the MDI "Artur Becker" - readiness , Dresden
The graduate badges (MdI) were awards from the Ministry of the Interior (MdI) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) for officers who had studied at a university of the MdI, civil university or universities of the GDR.
Award
The graduation badge was awarded in three different versions and was divided as follows:
- Graduation badge for officers of the MdI who had studied at the University of the German People's Police Karl Liebknecht Berlin
- Graduation badge for officers of the MdI who had completed a degree at a civil university or college
- Graduation badge for graduates of the officers' college of the Ministry of the Interior Artur Becker - readiness Dresden
Appearance
The graduate badges are in the shape of a rhombus, with the lower half of the badge flanked by two branches of laurel. In the middle of the badge, which is 30 mm wide and 45 mm high, you can see a golden police star. The middle field is white in the graduate badge of the University of the German People's Police and the civil universities and colleges. The officers' college, on the other hand, is green. The back of all badges is smooth. The whole thing was then covered with polyester resin.
history
Based on the tradition of awarding graduate badges in the Soviet Union, this was introduced for the armed organs of the GDR . In 1970, for example, the MdI donated a graduation badge for the first time for officers who had completed a degree at the University of the People's Police "Karl Liebknecht". The foundation of the graduate badge for degrees at civil universities or colleges as well as for studies at the officers' college of the MdI goes back to 1985. Graduate badges were very important as a status symbol and were awarded for the last time in 1990. With the dissolution of the MdI and the DVP , this tradition was discontinued. The already planned graduate badge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MfiA), as the successor department of the MdI, was no longer awarded before German reunification .
Wearing style
The graduate badges of the MdI were not a state award. As in the other armed organs, these were therefore basically worn on the right side of the uniform jacket. They were to be fastened in the middle directly above the breast pocket. Other graduate badges, such as another officers' college in the GDR or the Friedrich Engels military academy , were worn to the left of the MdI's graduate badge. Since November 1990, alumni badges of any kind have no longer been worn by former members of the MdI who were taken over into the police service of the federal states and the federal government.
literature
- Frank Bartel: Awards of the German Democratic Republic from the beginning to the present. Recordings by Jürgen Karpinski. Military Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic , Berlin 1979, p. 181.
- Chief Inspector of the National People's Army: Handbook of Basic Military Knowledge. NVA edition. Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1980, MilPunkt 14.5 - Awards and how they are worn, p. 462f. (Adequate application to all armed organs of the GDR including the German People's Police and State Security).
