Medal made in the DDR. The medal comes without the box. Silver class. The text on the back of the medal reads:”German Democratic Republic”.
The medal is called: Dr. Theodor Neubauer Medal and comes in three classes, bronze, silver and gold. The medal was awarded both to individuals and collectives for extraordinary contributions and achievements in the development of socialist education in the DDR.
Dr. Theodor Thilo Neubauer (1890-1945) was a German communist politician, educator, essayist, historian and anti-Nazi resistance fighter.
In March 1933, he went into hiding but was arrested on August 3. He was held in the prisons of Plötzensee and Brandenburg and the concentration camps of Lichtenburg and Buchenwald. Pardoned, he left Buchenwald in early July 1939 and returned to his family in Thuringia. He renewed contact with the Communists of the region and set up a resistance network.
He managed to communicate with the resistants of Buchenwald who received weapons. Following an illegal meeting in Leipzig, he was arrested in July 1944 and sentenced to death on January 8, 1945. Theodor Neubauer was guillotined on February 5 in the Brandenburg Prison.