Achievement badge of the GST

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Achievement badge for sport shooting in bronze

The term performance badge of the GST is a collective term for all performance badges of the Society for Sport and Technology of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which were issued and awarded by this mass organization from 1952 to 1990. The military sports department integrated into this comprised the following areas in which awards were also awarded:

  • Military all-around
  • Sport shooting
  • Motor and news sports
  • Aviation
  • Maritime sports
  • Diving
  • Modelling
  • Equestrian sport

The already well-known Ernst Schneller Medal and the Ernst Schneller Prize of the GST have received over 200 individual awards over the course of its 38-year history, which are almost impossible to record in full.

Selection of achievement badges

  • GST performance badge of motorsport (bronze, silver and gold)
  • GST badge for pre-military and technical knowledge, level I (clasp) and level II (trailer with career symbol) (1971 to 1983)
  • GST qualification badge for pre-military career training motorized riflemen , telecommunications specialists, divers and paratroopers (1984)
  • GST qualification badge for pre-military career training military aviators (1984)

Web links

literature

  • Awards of the German Democratic Republic Bartel / Karpinski, Military Publishing House of the GDR 1979, page 192