Pre-military training achievement badge
The achievement badge of the pre-military training was a sports badge of the Free German Youth (FDJ) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which was donated in 1960 in three stages. Level I was the highest here. It was awarded for achieving or passing the requirements in the pre-military area three times (including endurance sports, weight training, shooting training) in the context of pre-military (sports) events. These events were organized and carried out by the Society for Sport and Technology (GST) and the German Gymnastics and Sports Association (DTSB).
There was a new badge under the law on the pre-military training of apprentices and students in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was based on the GDR's sports badge. They came in gold, silver, and bronze, as well as large and small.
Appearance and wearing style
The badge is golden, oval and shows within a split laurel (right) and oak leaf wreath (left) a portrait of two NVA soldiers in front of a waving FDJ and GDR flag. At the lower edge there is a waving black, red and gold banner with the awarded level of the badge in Roman numerals. The badge was worn on the left breast pocket of the recipient.
literature
in order of appearance
- Military history , Deutscher Militärverlag , vol. 17 (1978), issue 4–6, pp. 563, 653, 655.
- History of the Free German Youth . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1982, p. 347.
- Central Institute for Youth Research (ZIJ), Leipzig (1985): Pre-military training - young people 1985 ; The data sets of this study can be found in the database catalog (DBK) of the Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences (GESIS), Cologne, ZA6113 data file version 1.0.0, doi: 10.4232 / 1.6113 .
- Peter Förster, Central Institute for Youth Research (ZIJ) (ed.): Participants in the pre-military training. Partial study . ZIJ, Leipzig 1986. urn : nbn: de: 0168-ssoar-399073
- Torsten Diedrich , Hans Ehlert , Rüdiger Wenzke (eds.): In the service of the party. Handbook of the armed organs of the GDR . Ch. Links, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-86153-160-7 , p. 181 ff.
- Ringo Wagner: The forgotten sports association of the GDR. The Society for Sport and Technology . Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 2006, ISBN 3-89899-283-7 , p. 65.