Award for Loyalty to the Ministry of State Security

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The award for loyal service in the MfS comprises a number of awards from the Ministry for State Security of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), because the MfS itself did not have its own medal for loyal service in its almost 40 years of existence . It still awarded medals for

  • five years of service (bronze medal)
  • ten years of service (medal in silver)
  • 15 years of service (gold medal)
  • 20 years of service (gold medal as a special level)
  • 25 years of service (honorary gift)
  • 30 years of service (certificate)
  • 35 years of service (certificate)

Medal award up to 20 years of service in the MfS

The year 1949, when the state of the GDR was founded, was initially taken as the basis for crediting the period of service. At that time, the emerging ministry was still subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior as the State Secretariat for State Security , so that the members of the first hour were awarded the medal for loyal service in the barracked people's police and from 1955 with the medal for loyal service in the German people's police . After November 1955, in the meantime the MfS had regained its status as an independent ministry, from 1956 the medal for loyal service in the National People's Army in the area of ​​the MfS was awarded. As a result, a member of the MfS could be awarded three medals for five years of service. In 1959 the first silver medals for loyalty services in the NVA were awarded. In 1960 it was decreed that, with immediate effect, the year 1949 was no longer relevant for the calculation of the period of service, but the period of service in the police of the Soviet occupation zone from May 1945 onwards. In 1960 the gold medals for loyalty service in the NVA were awarded for 15 years of service in the MfS. The first medals for 20 years of service were accordingly issued in 1965.