DDR urkunde presented to foreign nationals

[Gordon Craig]

Ralph Pickard had started a thread on foreign awards to people in the DDR (Ithink that is right Ralph?) but I couldn't find to check before I started this one. Yesterday, at the monthly Militaria Show in Budapest, I bought a group of documents to a young Hungarian woman who was in the Hungarian Youth Organization (ÚTTÖRÖ - for youth from ages 12 to 16) that was the equivalent of the Young Pioneers in the DDR. Two of the documents were URKUNDE from what appears to be a sports meet at the Zentral Pioneerlager "GEORGI DIMITROFF" that was obviously attended by foriegn youth organizations. At least some Hungarian youth were there. One URKUNDE is for placeing first in a race and the other one seems to be for attanding the meeting. If you have any other URKUNDE for DDR awards to foreigners please post them here.

Regards,

Gordon

[Gordon Craig]

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[Ralph P]

Hello Gordon - Thanks for starting this thread and posting your pictures of the documents. About the thread I founf it and it was for East Germans who received foreign awards, not foreigners who received East German awards.

I don't have any DDR awards given to foreigners in my collection, but it is interesting to see that this person had a youth competion exchange. And these type of events occured in East Germany with other Warsaw Pact countries.

[Ralph P]

Hello all - Over the last couple of months I have been working in getting what might be my rarest grouping for my collection. Once I get everything together which will still take sometime, I will post an overview photograph of the entire grouping.

This DDR document and badge which is part of the grouping was presented from the East German leadership.