Dr. Richard Sorge Medal for Combat Merit
The Dr. Richard Sorge Medal for Combat Merit was a planned but no longer realized state award of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which was donated in 1990 by the Ministry of State Security through the Council of Ministers of the GDR in three stages, bronze, silver and gold would have been. With regard to the classification of the medal as a state decoration or a decoration of the MfS, there are still differentiated professional opinions. However, since the Medal of Honored Employee of the State Security was also a state award of the GDR, it is more likely to be assigned to this area and therefore does not represent an internal award of the MfS , on the last day of the publication, no longer a corresponding publication in No. 49 of the aforementioned legal gazette. Nevertheless, the corresponding plans with regard to this medal had progressed so far that the medal itself had already been produced in small numbers, as also shown by a few pieces at horrendous prices in the trade. With the German reunification the project of this award became irrelevant.
Appearance and wearing style
The bronze, silver-plated or gold-plated medal with a diameter of 35 mm shows on its obverse the frontal head portrait of Richard Sorge as seen from the viewer , which is enclosed in a semicircle on the left and right by a laurel branch. The inscription at the top of the medal: DR.-RICHARD-SORGE . The reverse of the medal forms the GDR's national coat of arms in the middle, surrounded by the inscription: FÜR KAMPFVERDIENST (above) or MINISTERIUM FÜR STAATSSICHERHEIT (below). The medal would have been worn on the upper left side of the chest on a pentagonal, yellow-covered clasp on which two red vertical central stripes were woven on both sides, one of which formed the hem and the other 2 mm from the hem. The interim clasp was of the same quality and also showed the 10 mm diameter miniature of the obverse of the medal, corresponding to the awarded level.
Others
The Dr. Richard Sorge medal for combat merit should not be confused with the non-wearable silver Dr. Richard Sorge medal , which was also a medal of recognition from the Ministry of State Security.
Individual evidence
- ^ Nimmergut, Feder, von der Heyde: German medals and decorations. 6th edition, Battenberg-Verlag, 2006