Badge for the 2nd anniversary of the NVA

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The badge for the 2nd anniversary of the NVA was a non-governmental award of the National People's Army of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which was donated by the Minister for National Defense Willi Stoph on the occasion of the second anniversary of the founding of the NVA in 1958 .

Appearance

The badge has the form of a gold-plated non-portable medal mm with a diameter of about 34 and displays on its obverse centrally the portrait of a NVA soldiers with a helmet to the collar levels before two smoking factory chimneys. The symbolism is surrounded by the inscription: NATIONALE PEOPLE ARMY above and 2 YEARS below. The lapel is still unknown.

Carrying method

The badges issued for this occasion were allowed to be worn on the left breast pocket ten days before and on the day in question. The prerequisite for this was that the badge was intended to be worn at all, since there were also non-wearable ones. After the celebrations, the badge had to be removed, but remained in the possession of the borrower.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Feder, Jürgen Wagner, Ralf Swoboda: Military badges of the German Democratic Republic. Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-327-00523-0 , p. 54.