Hans Beimler Medal

Interim clasp

The Hans Beimler medal was a national award of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which was founded on 17 May 1956 in a stage of Ministers of the GDR. Your ceremony could only be made to individuals who had in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936-1939 ) stood on the part of the International Brigades, to the extent they had retained their anti- reactionary and anti- fascist stance in the period of National Sozialismuses.

Appearance and structural manner

The existing silver medal is strongly curved inward and display on their obverse the portrait of Hans centrally When Jewellers in uniform of the Republicans. On his head he wears a boat with stylized red star. To the portrait around is his name: to read HANS Beimler and including his life centered data: 1895-1936. The reverse of the coin, however, shows the three -pointed star in the center of the international brigades with the inscription: INTERNATIONAL ( above) BRIGADE (below). This is again from the outer inscription: enclosed FIGHTER FOR FREEDOM OF SPAIN (top) and 1936-1939 (bottom). On the edge of the medal Stamp has been 900 taken. In addition, but also from silver-plated bronze medals were issued, in this case eliminates the adopted hallmark. Was driven medal on a 25 x 14 mm large buckle on the left upper chest. The ribbon bears a double-sided 3 -mm-wide black-red- golden border strip and in the middle of the colors of the Spanish republic red - yellow-purple in a horizontal position. The interim clasp is of the same nature.