Levente Badge of Honor

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The Levente Badge of Honor ( Hungarian Levente diszjelvény ) was a Hungarian badge of honor that was donated in three classes by Reich Administrator Miklós Horthy as a service award on August 3, 1943 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Levente Youth , the Hungarian counterpart to the Hitler Youth .

Classification and award conditions

  • 1st class: after 15 years of service in the Levente training
  • 2nd class: after 10 years of service in the Levente training
  • III. Class: after 5 years of service in the Levente training

The awarding of the classes of the badge of honor could also take place in the case of general merit for the Levente youth and was not tied to Hungarian citizenship. So leaders of foreign youth organizations could also be honored with the badge of honor. Incidentally, possession of a lower class was not a prerequisite for acquiring a higher class.

Appearance and wearing style

All three classes are made of cast tombac and differ in size and design.

Thus, the first class of honor badge mm a diameter of 45, and shows the center a stylized issued silver eagle before a rising sun, of the color in its claws enameled keeps symbol of Levente, a tapered plate having a L having behind it the Patriarch Cross shows . The illustrated white waving banner, which is located on the upper edge of the badge, shows the inscription SZEBB JÖVÖT ("more beautiful future").

The second class of the honor badge has a diameter of 40 mm and also shows the colored enameled coat of arms of the Levant, but above the eagle made of oxidized metal, as well as the inscription SZEBB JÖVÖT ADJON ISTEN (“God give a more beautiful future”).

The III. and the lowest class has a diameter of only 35 mm and shows in the center the colored enameled coat of arms of the Levente youth, which is surrounded by a green enameled laurel wreath . The upper edge of the badge shows, as in the first class, a white waving banner with the inscription SZEBB JÖVÖT.

All classes of the badge of honor could be worn at the same time on the right breast pocket or at the same height on the civilian suit, but not with the uniform of the Hungarian Honvéd .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Badge of the Levente Youth Uniforms Market , ZDB -ID 331317-7 , year 1944, p. 3.

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