Size box: 6.5cm./2.5inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.57inch.
Weight: 43gr./1.51oz.
Year: 1956
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Table medal made in the DDR, 1956. The text on the medal reads:”German Gymnastics And Sports Festival, 1956”. This was the 2nd. festival.
The Gymnastics and Sports Festival of the DDR took place from 1954 to 1987 a total of eight times. The first German gymnastics and sports festival took place on the festival meadow next to the planned central stadium, in the stadium of peace and Bruno-Plache Stadium. With the 2nd festival it moved to the new central stadium, which was opened in 1956 in Leipzich. Here, as with all the following festivals, the main events took place: a sports show raised as a sporty propaganda event, often a football international game, an international athletics event and a magnificent closing event.
The Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB German Gymnastics and Sports Federation) was a mass organization of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 until shortly after German reunification. Membership in the organization included nearly four million people, which accounted for almost 20% of the population of the GDR.
Founded in 1957, the DTSB was the last major mass organization to be created by the East German government, and was the central agency responsible for mass sport. The federation consisted of individual sports associations within the country, ranging from sailing to chess. While it worked in conjunction with the Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST), the DTSB focused more on adult activities, whereas the GST focused on youth activities.
Upon the dissolution of East Germany and reunification with the West, the organization was disbanded and the individual sports associations either continued to exist independently or joined their Western counterparts.